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BLUE DRAGON TKD & TAI CHI TRAINING LYNDHURST
ACHIEVE PHYSICAL & MENTAL HEALTH
Tai Chi Chuan, as it is practiced in the west today can perhaps best be thought of as a moving form of yoga and meditation combined. There are a number of forms sometimes also called sets. Which consist of a sequence of movements. Many of these movements are originally derived from the martial arts and perhaps even more ancestrally than that, from the natural movements of animals and birds. Although the way they are performed in Tai Chi Chuan is practiced slowly, softly and gracefully with smooth and even transitions between them.
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Tai Chi form of exercise existed for some 2,000 years is often described as "Meditation in Motion" because it promotes serenity through gentle movements connecting the mind and the body. Practiced regularly Tai Chi Chuan can help you reduce stress and enjoy other health benefits. Physical Fitness
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Because the Tai Chi movements have their origins in the martial arts, practicing them does have some martial applications. In a two-person exercise called "push-hands" Tai Chi principles are developed in terms of being sensitive to and responsive of another person's "Chi" or vital energy. It is also an opportunity to employ some of the martial aspects of Tai Chi a kind of slow-tempo combat. long-time practitioners of Tai Chi are so-inclined can become very adept at martial arts.The emphasis in Tai Chi is on being able to channel potentially destructive energy in the form of a kick or punch away from one in a manner that will dissipate the energy or send it in a direction where it is no longer a danger. Tai Chi are also situated in a wider philosophical context of Taoism. This is a reflective, mystical Chinese tradition first associated with the scholar and mystic Lao Tsu, an older contemporary of confucius. He wrote and taught in the province of Honan in the 6th century B.C. and authored the seminal work of Taoism, the Tao Te Ching. As a philosophy, Taoism has many elements but fundamentally it it espouses a calm, reflective and mystic view of the world steeped in the beauty and tranquility of nature.
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