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What to Wear for Tai Chi: Best Clothing Choices
Looking for guidance on what to wear for Tai Chi? Discover comfortable clothing options and essential tips for proper attire that will enhance your practice and movement
Tai Chi 24 Form Names: A Complete Movement Guide
Learn the complete sequence of Tai Chi 24 Form Names, the most popular simplified Yang-style routine. Master each movement with detailed explanations and expert guidance
Tai Chi Chih – Basic Tai Chi Movements For Beginners
Beginners considering taking up tai chi for its many mental and physical benefits may be wondering what specific movements they should try. A good starting place is with Tai Chi Chih, a set of 19 movements and a single pose for meditation. This focuses on your development of natural, intrinsic energy known as chi. Beginners […]
The 8 Energies of Tai Chi (The Ancient Energy Art)
Tai chi is often called an energy art. This is because it centers around the unseen energies which makes up your life force. There are 13 elemental positions often referred to as postures which are at the base of all tai chi practice. Those 13 “postures” include 8 separate but linked energy forces and 5 […]
Tai Chi And Pregnancy – Good For The Unborn Child And Mom-To-Be?
Pregnant mothers-to-be are always looking for some way to enhance and improve their prenatal, delivery and postnatal conditioning. They often seek to do this through exercise. As recently as the 1960s, women in the Western world were urged to take it easy and avoid physical exertion at all costs. We now know better, with moms […]
How Tai Chi Alleviates Back Pain
If you suffer from chronic back pain, the ancient Far East practice of tai chi may be just what the doctor ordered. That is because there are certain tai chi movements which can alleviate back pain, even in some people who have been suffering for years. They are also excellent for treating pain issues in […]
What Mental and Physical Conditions Does Tai Chi Treat?
Although developed as a martial art, tai chi the past several decades has seen Western nations develop it as a form of physical fitness and exercise. The meditative, overall health benefits that tai chi offers have been focused in many cases to treat certain debilitating conditions, both mental and physical. The following ailments, issues and […]
The Differences Between Qigong And Tai Chi
You may understand that both qigong and tai chi are ancient Chinese practices for increasing your energy, also relieving stress and anxiety. Sometimes the two get confused. That is because there are a lot of similarities here. While they are closely linked, there are some definite differences between these Far East physical art forms. What […]
What Are the 7 Chakras?
The 7 Chakras is not the name of the latest boy band, but rather the main energy centers in your body through which all energy flows. Meditation, yoga, tai chi and other mental and physical practices are all based on the idea that you can keep energy flowing in the proper direction throughout your body […]
The Legendary History And Background Of Tai Chi
There are conflicting ideas about the origin of tai chi. That should be expected, as the modern day Chinese form of exercise and physical fitness originated more than 700 years ago as a martial art. However, it is generally accepted that Shao-Lin martial art practitioner Chang San-feng founded Tai Chi Chuan (what Westerners called tai […]