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Tai Chi
Experience the gentle flowing, movements of Tai Chi and treat your whole body to a gentle and relaxing workout.
Say goodbye to sweating, puffing and panting.
Say hello to feeling cool, calm, refreshed and energised.
Just 15 minutes a day is your passport to better health, fitness, peace of mind and so much more, as your mind and body work in harmony for superb results.
Join us, try the Tai Chi and Qi Gong exercises, they’re fun and we think you’ll love them too.
If you’re stressed, going to a meeting or just having a bad day, choose a relaxing Tai Chi exercise (we’ll tell you which ones do what) and create and enjoy an oasis of calm before getting back to the real world.
Qigong
forms, forms come in many shapes and sizes from a single exercise to several
sets of exercises making up a full healing system.
Many of the forms are designed to combat a specific health condition so you get
forms for the heart, the lungs, the stomach, for headaches, for slimming etc.
You get the idea if it can go wrong somewhere there is a form to help.
With purely a health emphasis, t'ai chi classes have become popular in hospitals, clinics, and community and senior centers in the last twenty years or so, as baby boomers age and the art's reputation as a low-stress training for seniors became better known
Health benefits
Before t'ai chi's introduction to Western students, the health benefits of t'ai chi ch'uan were largely explained through the lens of traditional Chinese medicine, which is based on a view of the body and healing mechanisms not always studied or supported by modern science. Today, t'ai chi is in the process of being subjected to rigorous scientific studies in the West Now that the majority of health studies have displayed a tangible benefit in some areas to the practice of t'ai chi, health professionals have called for more in-depth studies to determine mitigating factors such as the most beneficial style, suggested duration of practice to show the best results, and whether t'ai chi is as effective as other forms of exerciseMartial Applications
Within the domain of Taijiquan, there is a bit of conflict between those who practice Taijiquan as a fighting art, and those who practice it more for health benefits. There is a general consensus that to get the full health benefits of Taijiquan, one must focus on the body alignment, weight shifting, and other aspects that enable Taijiquan to be effective as a fighting art. Whether or not Taijiquan is more effective in an actual fight than, say, boxing or self defense techniques such as chinna (using leverage against specific pressure points to incapacitate an opponent) is often up to debate amongst a certain subset of Taijiquan practitioners.
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