Promoting Health…
Tai Chi has been on the mainstream of exercise, techniques and healing for years. I have been teaching Tai Chi, Qi Gong and associated martial arts over the past 40 plus years. Teaching has afforded me the opportunity to meet a vast array of personalities and a mixture of people with different backgrounds. Assisted living sites, cancer centers, hospitals, private sessions, parks and recreation centers as well as roof top settings to name a few places for my classroom settings.
This amazing Chinese martial arts exercise form has captured the attention of people worldwide in the areas of mind, body and spirit modalities. Various resource continues to help produce more and more scientific proof of Tai Chi’s health benefits.
Bear in mind as a person age, we generally become less and less physical in our day-to-day activities. Walking up a flight of stairs may present a challenge to some folks. Tai Chi with its mental and physical attributes to health can help balance this imbalance in the natural process of aging.
The concepts of yin and yang prevails and present itself to us within all Tai Chi forms and throughout our entire life. Metaphorically speaking, yin and yang presents an opposite for everything, for example up and down, or left and right.
Tai Chi continues to prove itself to be a very cost-effective holistic modality to health. It works by moving energy (Chi or Qi) through the entire body within respective channels known as meridians. This energy works on the body internally as well as externally.
Alternative health information is showing up more in medical journals. As a result of the growing interest into alternative health increased research and funding is trending. The positive results derived from practicing Tai Chi is making it into a real go-to holistic exercise for millions of people around the world.
I have taught a wide array of students ranging in age from 3 to 105. My students have a desire to learn, and I am happy to oblige adding humor to relax the atmosphere while we do Tai Chi.
I continue teaching Tai Chi, Qi Gong and laughing at some of my own jokes every chance I get.
Remember, “Tai Chi is to you, what you are to Tai Chi” Master Woody