Benefits of T'ai Chi

T’ai Chi Chuan is distinct in being the only known art to offer multiple benefits including:

Active relaxation: Learn to enter, integrate and maintain a relaxed state with the ultimate goal of remaining mentally calm and physically relaxed in unpredictable situations, circumstance or conflict.
Expanded awareness through meditation. Each year more studies are conducted and published that qualify and quantify how meditation improves the mental and overall health condition for practitioners. Studies are finding benefits around enhanced cognitive function, memory related brain activity and focus. T’ai Chi takes the benefit of meditation even further by applying it into movement and then situations of change over time, thus-enabling the individual to bring a practiced meditative approach to life’s daily challenges.
Physical development including strength, flexibility and balance.

“The art is to conceal the art.”
— Oscar Wilde

The casual observer tends to be of the opinion that a person performing the T’ai Chi form is hardly doing anything. Unfortunately this misconception has become the gateway for many people seeking unparalleled health and spiritual benefits with minimal investment of effort. These perceptions are false. Performing a set routine of the T’ai Chi forms slowly and with relaxed precision is an incredibly challenging and rewarding system of calisthenics.

Improved Overall Health

Improved overall health through better functioning joints and internal organs. This is a critical part of health that is overlooked and not addressed by most fitness or health specialist other than your doctor, often after the probem has already occurred.
Strategic Mindset

Develop a strategic mindset for addressing conflicts or negotiations at home, work or in public. T’ai chi is built on a philosophy and approach centered on yielding, redirecting and responding. This mind set has been developed on a physical level but also on a mental level by leading icons like Benjamin Franklin and most recently Jack Ma, CEO of Alibaba, the largest IPO in history, as of 2014.
Focused Thought

T’ai Chi Chuan training makes the complex and abstract concepts of universal principals tangible, which can be practiced and applied spontaneously in other areas of your daily life.
Improved Awareness

Improved awareness and heightened sense of the workings and coordination of your body. Develop your health beyond the muscular including joints, internal organs and connective tissue. Additional benefits include focus, strength, flexibility, balance, improved breathing and internal organ massage all in a daily routine that raises your spirit.
Self Defense

History shows how societies enter periods of increased turmoil and violence. Most people go to great lengths to protect their identity, money and property, but very few can protect their physical self. A physical altercation or assault may be unlikely, but a glance through any daily newspaper or local news program will show victims who believed the same thing. Having a sense of personal protection empowers you and provides options, strategies and techniques that may be drawn upon in the event of a potentially dangerous altercation.
Embracing Change

Change is welcomed when it occurs easily or naturally, maybe unwittingly. But when change is brought on by external measures or is unexpected, how do you respond? Many people have difficulty accepting change and tend to cling to concepts, ideas or situations based on perceived stability. T’ai Chi teaches an adaptive approach that aligns with change.

“Through advanced training the individual learns the ability to adapt, and change becomes a strength that enables you to experience the dark struggles that sometimes leads the person to an ultimately better place in their lives.”
— The I Ching

Additional benefits include improving conditions related to:

Excellent for many post-operative recovery patients.
Pain relief, including back pain.
Arthritis and Rheumatoid Arthritis
Fibromyalgia
Heart health: high blood pressure, stroke recovery (mainly for balance).
Improving quality of sleep.
Depression and anxiety

Benefits of T'ai Chi

Improved Overall Health

Strategic Mindset

Focused Thought

Improved Awareness

Self Defense

Embracing Change

Additional benefits include improving conditions related to: