Tai Chi — Saturday June 27

Description

All levels welcome to this series for beginners.

What is Tai Chi?

Tai Chi Chaun is a soft or internal style of Kung Fu, which incorporates the principles of Qi Gong. It is characterized by slow, precise, connected movement coordinated with one’s breathing or qi (life force). Practice is done by executing forms or patterns of movements.

What are the benefits?

Physically they brings balance to the body, both in terms of establishing a moment to moment relationship with gravity and in creating evenness within the physical structures from left to right and front to back.

Mentally these practises reduce stress and tension by removing the focus on the content of thoughts, which are the root of all mental strain and instead bringing attention to the bodies spatial arrangements to energetic reference points and flows. When this part of the brain then thought drops away and is replaced by a presence that observes the activities of the moment.

The Emotional and the Spiritual are aspects of ourselves, which we can access and work with via the energetic body. These components are paid relatively little attention in conventional western medicine, yet are impacted by much of our personal history. Eastern medicine provides languages and frameworks to understand these aspects of our selves. By organising and balancing the energetics of any particular body area within the energetic sphere, which sits around us, we can balance and calm our emotions.

Spiritually, through a practise of awareness and a focus on the heart we can find our way back to a centered place from which we operate in an authentic manner and find our way to a passionate and engaged modus operandi. Chinese internal practises help us to become in tune with the natural energetics of the seasons and our role and relationships in harmony with nature.