Do you wish to feel relaxed and have a calmer mind? Do you feel stiffness in the joints? If you do, try Tai Chi and feel the difference! Tai Chi is an ancient Chinese health and martial art, based on the principles of relaxation, natural movement, meditation and balance. Its approach is holistic. Internally, it …
Have you noticed how your energy levels change throughout the day? Usually, after a good night’s sleep, our mind and body function efficiently. We feel full of energy. Work during the morning is usually productive. By mid-afternoon, we usually begin to feel a little drowsy. This is the time we have another shot of caffeine …
As a health art, Tai Chi is based on the principles of relaxation, natural movement, meditation and balance. Its approach is holistic. Internally, it promotes natural deep breathing, mental calmness and better circulation. The large circular movements of the Hun Yuan Tai Chi have a calming effect on the nervous system. This enables you to …
Tai Chi is the way to perfect relaxation. It can enhance activity in the areas of the brain associated with happiness and compassion. When the mind and body are relaxed, endorphins (the body’s natural feel good chemicals) are released, boosting the practitioner’s mood. Tai Chi has also been proven to enhance the functioning of the …
Tai Chi movements always puzzle onlookers. At first, it seems to them that they are watching a movie in slow motion and they wonder how this can be good for you. When Tai Chi students claim that this is a martial art, it is hard to believe. About a hundred years ago, Tai Chi was …
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Tai Chi is different from many western forms of health and fitness. Its training methods are based on Chinese philosophy, traditional Chinese medicine, qigong (cultivation of energy and meditation) and martial principles. Many people do not understand how Tai Chi training affects the body and mind. Recently, I was talking to some students after class. …
The Year of the Rabbit is considered lucky in Chinese astrology. The Rabbit can grant your wishes, so let us ask for a healthy and prosperous year! The Academy was invited to display its skills at the Multicultural Festival, in conjunction with the celebration of Chinese New Year in Civic. We had not participated in …
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In Tai Chi or Wu Dao Gong, our training is designed to transform the body from tension to relaxation, weakness to strength, lethargic to energetic and uncoordinated to coordinated. We achieve this through a process of static, semi-static and dynamic exercises that loosen, stretch, strengthen, integrate and align the entire body. The initial exercises are …
The Tao is the way to harmony and happiness and is based on living in accord with certain principles expounded by Taoist masters over 2000 years ago. Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu were two of the more well-known exponents of this philosophy. Over the centuries, Taoism has infiltrated every aspect of Chinese culture – from …
– Fontane Ip Everyone would like to be healthy and strong and enjoy a high quality of life up to a ripe old age. However, every activity in life costs us energy; even digestion requires energy. Food and sleep do not appear to be sufficient to sustain our vitality. So what is this magic that will rejuvenate …
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Suggested Reading:
“No Fight, No Blame: a Journalist’s life in Martial Arts”, by Michael Dorgan
Grandmaster Feng Zhi Zhang, founder of our Hun Yuan Tai Chi system, is featured in the book.
“Proof of Heaven: a neurosurgeon’s journey into the afterlife”, by Dr. Eben Alexander
“Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us”, by Michael Moss
“The Web that has No Weaver : understanding Chinese medicine”, by Ted J. Kaptchuk