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Tai Chi Student Review

admin — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 10:41:55 +0000

Tai Chi Student Review One of my students has shared their experience of learning Tai Chi and Qigong online in my live stream Zoom Classes. This student was new to the practices and currently attends both the Chen foundations live stream and the Qigong routine live stream classes. Online Tai Chi Student Review "I have...

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Tai Chi Qigong Zoom Classes

admin — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 18:43:52 +0000

Tai Chi Qigong Zoom Classes Join our weekly online classes from the UK, where you can study Chen Tai Chi and Qi Gong with me instructor Nicola at Earth Balance Tai Chi. Tai Chi and Qigong are effective ways to restore balance, build resilience and gain strength. I teach video on demand classes to create...

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Online Tai Chi Review

admin — Sun, 14 Jul 2019 17:06:44 +0000

Online Tai Chi Review A student shares their testimonial of learning Chen Tai Chi online via Zoom with instructor Nicola of Earth Balance Tai Chi. Dated July 2019 "Tai Chi and Qigong are wonderful teachings. They are truly accessible to all. No matter age, physically ability or fitness, you can improve your health. You can...

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Pain Instructs

admin — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 20:12:05 +0000

Pain Instructs Training Tai Chi and Qigong during times of injury, chronic and acute pain can offer some unusual benefits. Simply put, pain instructs. It's one of the responses in the body that is not subtle, it hurts and we react to it. When you experience physical pain in your Tai Chi or Qigong practice,...

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Hibernating Bear Tai Chi

admin — Sun, 26 Aug 2018 21:39:46 +0000

Hibernating Bear Tai Chi Do you live with chronic illness and want to try a different approach to building resilience in mind and body? The Hibernating Bear Tai Chi and Qigong programme draws from traditional movement and stillness practices to help support chronic pain, chronic fatigue, those living with a different health baseline than the...

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Secret Tai Chi Training

admin — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 16:58:35 +0000

Secret Tai Chi Training A lot of Tai Chi and Qigong students practice secretly out in the wild. What is this secret training and how can you add it to your practice? It's being outside of your training space or studio, it could be somewhere in public or somewhere non Tai Chi related, in everyday...

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When Resources aren’t Enough

admin — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 06:52:36 +0000

When Resources aren't Enough A delve into the Tai Chi learning process, looking at the ebb and flow of training a life-long art. When learning Tai Chi, there are several highs and lows along the way. Sometimes students will infer that the resources available are not enough for them to study at home. As an...

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Chen Taiji Cloud Hands

admin — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 14:53:16 +0000

Chen Taiji Cloud Hands The Chen style Tai Chi movement "Wave Hands like Clouds" (Yun Shou) can be performed as a standing silk reeling drill known as 'double palm front silk reeling' where both arms follow a positive/yang circle, or in the form the same movement is coordinated with a side stepping motion. The hands...

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Peng Lu Ji An

admin — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 11:09:51 +0000

Peng Lu Ji An Peng Lu Ji An is a foundation silk reeling drill within Chen style Tai Chi of the four primary martial movements of Peng (ward-off), Lu (rollback), Ji (squeeze press), An (push down). Read more on the Eight Basic Movements of Chen Style Tai Chi and the Development of Chen Tai Chi. ...

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Rooting in Tai Chi

admin — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 10:56:38 +0000

Rooting in Tai Chi One of the main principles in Chen Tai Chi training is rooting and grounding. Without a root there is no Tai Chi. Your root can be described as the foundations of a building or the roots of a tree. Rooting is what allows the body to have structural integrity in stillness...

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