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2026 Spring Season Info Packet II

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Qinna Seminar and other nice activities!

The spring season continues and runs to May 13th of 2026. Monday classes will exceptionally be held at Roihuvuori School. Any other exceptions to course dates can be found on the website.

Pizza Wednesday is always on the first Wednesday of the month. After training, we’ll head to Restaurant Siilinpesä to enjoy some pizza together. Persons who train on other days are also welcome to this informal get-together.

A Qinna seminar registration is now open! The seminar will be held on Saturday, March 7th of 2026, from 12PM to 6PM at the Arabia Youth Center. The day will consist of both theory and practice. Guided by Master Lü, participants will explore Qinna (Chin Na) techniques—locking and controlling techniques that are part of Taiji and other chinese martial arts. The seminar will cover everything from understanding and internalizing the basics all the way to finding, mastering, and applying movement. The seminar fee is €60. The seminar is suitable for practitioners of all levels, as the content will be tailored to the participants. Partner exercises will be practiced, and suitable training partners will be available for everyone on site.

The Easter camp is approaching! It will take place from April 2nd to 6th of 2026 at  Lohjan Kisakallio as usual.A more detailed description of the camp and the registration link will be published on March 1st of 2026.

The Spring Meeting and the summer kick-off picnic will be held on May 31st of 2026, at the Tali siirtolapuutarha, address Metsäpolku 32.

The summer intensives are approaching as well! Voting on their content is now open.

Bright regards,
Baji Association Board

2026 Spring Season Info Packet I

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Great news: we’re getting back to training again!

The spring season runs from January 5th to May 13th of 2026. Registration for courses is now open on the association’s website. No classes will be held on public holidays, Maundy Thursday, or May Day Eve. Any exceptions to course dates can also be found on the website.


A Taiji Qinna seminar will be held on Saturday March 7th of 2026, from 12PM to 6PM at the Arabia Youth Center. The day will consist of both theory and practice. Guided by Master Lü, participants will explore Taiji Qinna (Chin Na) techniques—locking and controlling techniques that are part of Taiji. The seminar will cover everything from understanding and internalizing the basics all the way to finding, mastering, and applying movement. The seminar fee is €60. The seminar is suitable for practitioners of all levels, as the content will be tailored to the participants. Partner exercises will be practiced, and suitable training partners will be available for everyone on site.


The Chinese New Year on February 17th of 2026, will be celebrated from 7PM to 9PM with open training sessions in the Grundskolan Norsen. The day falls on a Tuesday, so in addition to Taiji there will be demonstrations from other disciplines and opportunities to try different arts. It’s a good idea to tell friends to mark that date in their calendars already!


The Easter camp is expected to take place as usual this year as well. The dates are April 2nd to 6th of 2026. A more detailed description of the camp will be published later in the spring.

The Spring Meeting and the summer kick-off picnic will be held on May 31st of 2026, at the Tali siirtolapuutarha, address Metsäpolku 32.

Wishing you a radiant New Year 🎉
Baji Association Board

2025 Christmas Party

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BAJI RY:n
Autumn Meeting & Christmas Party
13th of December 2025

 Greetings!

It’s time again to get together to relax and feast at our association’s Christmas party. We’ll be gathering at the new for us Chinese restaurant Golden Leaf (Leiviskäpolku 4, 00440 Helsinki).

We’ll start on Saturday 13.12.2025 at 6PM with the Christmas party! The evening is going to be full of nice food, drinks as well as awesome people! The price will be 25€ per person and you pay it when you come in. Drinks you can buy directly from the bar.


Restaurant Golden Leaf
Leiviskäpolku 4, 00440 Helsinki
Located near the Pohjos-Haaga train station.

Time 13th of Dec 2025
Autumn meeting 17:00
Christmas Party 18:00

Please sign up for the Christmas party from the following link, be sure to sign up because space is limited (let us know if you’re bringing an avec too). Our maximum capacity is 36 people and every year we’ve had 32-35 people attend. So remember to sign up no later than 08.12.2025 to reserve your spot!

2025 MENU

中文名稱In EnglishSuomeksi
牛腩煲Braised Beef Brisket HotpotHaudutettu naudanrintapata
港式叉燒Hong Kong-style Char SiuHongkongilainen Char Siu -possu
中式咕嚕肉Chinese Sweet and Sour PorkKiinalainen hapanimelä possu
清蒸魚Steamed Sea Fish (zander)Höyrytetty merikala (kuha)
星洲炒米粉Singapore-style Fried VermicelliSingaporelaisittain paistetut riisinuudelit
素菜湯Vegetable SoupKasviskeitto
麻婆豆腐Mapo TofuMapo-tofu
香菇扒小唐菜Braised Mushrooms with Bok ChoyHaudutetut sienet ja paksoi
魚香茄子“Fish-Fragrant” Eggplant“Kalantuoksuinen” munakoiso
炒雜菜Stir-fried Mixed VegetablesPaistetut sekavihannekset
豆腐炒飯Tofu Fried RicePaistettu riisi tofulla

See you there!

With seasonal greetings,
Baji Association board

2025 Season Info Packet IV

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Hi, summer and training continue!

Summer offers both training and fun! The first intensive week is approaching, and we’ll wrap it up with a summer picnic to catch up and enjoy each other’s company.

Free summer training sessions continue. You’ll find practitioners in Hesperia Park on Wednesdays from 6 PM to 9 PM, and occasionally also on Monday evenings. On Sundays, free training takes place in Itäkeskus starting around noon. Arrangements for free training can be made via the existing WhatsApp and Facebook groups.

The summer intensives
– July 14-17
– July 28-31
– August 18-21

The intensives cost 25 euros per lesson, or you can purchase the summer season pass for 150 euros which will allow you to participate in as many intensive lessons during the summer as you are like. The location is under a shelter behind the parking lot of Liikuntakeskus Puro at Kajaaninlinnantie 10.

The themes follow the indoor season program:
– Monday: Chen Taiji and Tuishou
– Tuesday: Yang Taiji and Chen Taiji
– Wednesday: Weapons, Baji, and Xingyi
– Thursday: QiGong and Chen 24

The summer barbeque will be held on Saturday, July 19. All members of the association are warmly welcome! The barbeque takes place in Talin siirtolapuutarha, Pitäjänmäentie 32 / Metsäpolku 32, 00370 Helsinki. Come hang out, enjoy some good food, and catch up with everyone! 

With sunny summer greetings,
Baji Association Board

2025 Season’s Info Packet III 

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Summer is coming, yay!

The spring season is ending, but the summer season is about to begin. Training is guaranteed throughout the summer!

The spring season will end on Thursday, May 15th 2025. A gentle reminder that 1st of May there will be no Thursday training. The last two Wednesday training sessions, on May 7th and May 14th will be held at Brändö Gymnasium, Ståhlbergintie 2.

The spring meeting for the association will be held on the 15th of May at 17:30 in alin siirtolapuutarha, Pitäjänmäentie 32 / Metsäpolku 32, 00370 Helsinki. All members are warmly welcome to participate, and run off to the last training of the season afterwards!

The summer’s free training sessions will start immediately after the spring season ends. You’ll find practitioners in Hesperia Park on Wednesdays from 6 PM to 9 PM, and occasionally also on Monday evenings. On Sundays, free training takes place in Itäkeskus starting around noon. Arranging for free training can be made via the existing WhatsApp and Facebook groups.

On Helsinki Day (12th of June) Baji Association members will gather in Hesperia Park from 6 PM to 9 PM. We hope to see as many of our members as possible to showcase our training and inspire the local Helsinki residents to try out our styles. The association’s China trip overlaps with Helsinki Day, so some members will be representing us far, far away.

The summer intensives
– 14.-17.7
– 28.-31.7
– 18.-21.8 
The intensives cost 25 euros per lesson, or you can buy the summer season pass for 150 euros which will allow you to participate in as many intensive lessons during the summer as you are able. Location for the intensives is Kajaaninlinnantie 10  behind Liikuntakeskus Puron parking lot underneath the rain cover.

The summer barbeque will be held on Saturday, 19th July. It takes place in Talin siirtolapuutarha, Pitäjänmäentie 32 / Metsäpolku 32, 00370 Helsinki. Come hang out, enjoy some good food, and catch up with everyone! 


With warm summer breeze greetings,
Baji Association Board

2025 Spring Season Info Packet I

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Happy New Year 2025!

The year is starting out great, as the training season starts on Tuesday 7.1.2025 according to the normal weekly schedule. Please remember to sign-up after your first free lesson!

On Wednesday 29.1.2025 we will celebrate Chinese New Year with open doors training. On that day at Alppiharju (Åshöjdens) school between 18-21, you can come and try weapons from 18-19 and from 19-20 Baji, Xingyi and Bagua. If there are requests for other styles, they can also be considered. The event is open to all and you can should invite your friends to join!

Upcoming events for the spring season include our traditional Easter camp and weekend seminars, the dates of which will be announced later.

There are still places available for the China trip from the 9th to the 20th of June 2025, so there is still time to register. More details about the trip can be found on our website.

We wish you joy for the new training year!

With warm greetings,
The Baji Association Board

2024 Autumn Season Info Packet III

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BAJI ASSOCIATION
Autumn season 2024

Heya to the darkening evenings!

The autumn season is already halfway over. The Tuishou seminar was such a hit that we will probably organize another one in the spring! In anticipation of the spring season starting on the 7th January 2025, we have some winter activities for our kung fu family:

The Baji Association’s autumn meeting will take place on 14.12.2024 at 16:00 at Robert’s Coffee in Sähkötalo; an official invite with the meeting plan will be published closer to the event. Afterwards, we will move downstairs to restaurant Osaka Sushi for our annual Christmas party at 18:00. We have reserved our own cabinet in Osaka Sushi – pay your buffet when you come in (22,90€), and order your drinks from the bar. Don’t forget to sign-up so we know we have enough space!

There have been inquiries about our trip to China. Our time together in China is scheduled for next summer from the 9th to 20th of June 2025. More detailed information about the arrangements for the trip inclusive of signing up will be published sometime in January 2025.

Wishing you inner light,
The Board of Baji Association

2024 Autumn Season Info Packet II

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Autumn greetings!

A nice start to another great season. Here’s some more information about the upcoming season and events therein.

The autumn season begins on Monday 2nd of September and the last set of practice in the autumn season is on Thursday 12th in December, and the autumn season ends with our Christmas party on Saturday 14th of December. Our Schedules have been updated on our website and will be actively kept up to date as changes occur – take note of the outdoor training in September!

The association bank account has now been successfully changed (the reason; the association’s bank Handelsbanken is shutting down their Finnish branch entirely – our new bank is OmaSP). Don’t be shy about using the sign-up system now to sign up for our courses so you can receive the new bank account number in the bills sent through the sign-up forms!

Exceptions in Schedule 2024 (Autumn)

2.9 Season start as intended in Brändö is och gym
9.-30.9 Monday lessons outdoors in Itäkeskus (Kajaaninlinnantie 10, 00900 Helsinki).
10.10 lessons cancelled
11.11 Master Lü away, lessons held by substitute
9.-12.12 Master Lü away, lessons held by substitutes

Upcoming Events

Tuishou seminar 26.-27.10 Arabian nuorisotalo, Helsinki.
Autumn meeting 14.12.2024 [location to be announced closer to December],Helsinki.
Christmas Party 14.12.2024 Restaurant Osaka Sushi,Helsinki.

See you at training!

With autumn regards,
Baji Association announcers

2024 Autumn Season Info Packet

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Hi there!

The summer has been kind in regards to both weather and training, and now it’s time to turn our heads toward the autumn season!

The autumn season begins on Monday 2nd of September and our training places remain the same as last season. The last set of practice in the autumn season is on Thursday 12th of December, and the autumn season ends with our Christmas party on Saturday 14th of December. Our Schedules have been updated on our website and will be actively kept up to date as changes occur – take note of the outdoor training in September!

We also ask for your patience with paying for the season, as between August-September our association’s bank account will change, and it will take a while to make this change for all our payment services. We will update you once this is done. 

During the autumn we plan on hosting at least on weekend seminar, on which there will be more information later.

See you at training!

With autumn regards,
Baji Association announcers

2024 Summer Info Packet III

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Hope the summer has treated you well!
Rumour has it Helsinki Day was a great success for our association – thank you kindly to all who attended!

Next week we will have our last free Wednesday evening training in Hesperia Park, and afterwards it’s time to hit the first intensive course week of the summer between the 15th of July to the 18th. The schedule for the first intensives are as follows:

Monday 
Yang & Chen Taiji
Tuesday 
Yang & Chen Taiji
Wednesday 
Master Lü’s Fighting Principles (Baji, Xingyi & weapons)
Thursday 
Qigong & Chen 24

The intensives are between 18-20 o’clock at Itäkeskus peruskoulu at the address Kajaaninlinnantie 10, 00900 Helsinki.

The intensives cost 25 euros per lesson, or you can buy the summer season pass for 150 euros which will allow you to participate in all 12 intensive lessons during the summer.

The next intensive weeks will be Mon-Thu 29.7 – 1.8 & Mon-Thu 12.-15.8 with the same prices and schedule.

Should the weather allow, we will be arranging a picnic for our gongfu family on Saturday the 20th of July from 15:00 onwards in Lastenlehdon puisto ( Ruoholahdenkatu – Lapinrinne – Lapinlahdenkatu, 00180 Helsinki).

The park has nice even ground for some training, grass to sit on, trees to take shade under, and some fun playgrounds for kids to enjoy, should you take your family with you! The event itself will be free, but we do expect you to bring your own food & drinks. Should you run out of something, there are plenty of restaurants and shops around for potential refills.

See you!
Training regards,
Baji Association spokesteam