For Relaxation & Stress Relief
Relieve Stress – Tone your Body as you improve Flexibility
Tai Chi is a slow-motion, low-impact exercise and self-defense system designed for people that want to improve muscle tone and flexibility as it relieves stress and promotes relaxation, balance, coordination, and brain function. Tai Chi does not require great strength nor does it involve strenuous physical exertion. Unlike other forms of exercise, Tai Chi can be performed by anyone, regardless of age or physical condition. Tai Chi is done slowly, evenly, with rhythmical postures.
Scientific Evidence
Scientific evidence suggests that there are three basic therapeutic principles behind the effectiveness of Tai Chi. These are the restoration of vitality, the storage of physical energy, and the massaging action of the visceral organs. Tai Chi practice provides physical therapy which Western science has just now begun to explore and appreciate. You will achieve better health through a balanced development of the limbs. Your breathing will become smooth and your muscles relaxed. You will increase the flexibility of your joints, and develop a better outlook on life because you will feel healthier and maintain a high spirit.
Tai Chi – The Grand Ultimate Exercise for Health… Here’s Why.
Tai Chi developed from two animal movements: the snake and the crane. The snake develops flexibility, endurance, and breathing for internal dynamics with fluid motions with emphasis placed on the hands and fingers. The Crane develops control, balance, dexterity, and leg strength with the emphasis placed on the mind through concentration on the various Tai Chi postures. These two animals were combined with the principles of Yin/Yang.
I’m sure you’re familiar with the symbol of a circle with the two opposites of one side dark and the other side white. The Yin/Yang are polar opposites. Yang represents activity, strength, and power, while the Yin side represents stillness, softness, flexibility, and relaxation. Though these two symbols are polar opposites, they flow from one to the other in constant harmony. This is exactly how all Tai Chi (Grand Ultimate) movements flow from one to the other in harmony. As one side is soft and flexible, the other side is active and strong. The medical community agrees that a proper exercise program should have strength as well as flexibility exercises for maximum health benefits.
Let’s look at the next aspect of Tai Chi that makes it truly unique. The Yin/Yang is represented by a circle, so all the movements of Tai Chi are circular just like the Yin/Yang. Everything on your body is circular: your arms, legs, head, hands, and even your toes. Therefore, the ancients felt to maximize the health benefits of Tai Chi all the movements should be circular like the way your body is made. Does that make sense? These circular postures develop and maximize the real benefits of Tai Chi for you.
Tai Chi Massage for True Relaxation
However, Tai Chi goes beyond that. You’ve heard of Acupressure and Acupuncture? The basic premise behind them is the manipulation of the body’s vital energy that flows naturally through the body. There are basically 108 vital points that are used to help manipulate this energy for health and vitality. Tai chi uses these same points to increase the body’s natural energy flow. Therefore, you’ll feel more energetic, relaxed, and stress-free.
This is truly a remarkable exercise program for health, healing, and vitality, wouldn’t you agree? The five steps of Tai Chi that we do in every class are Tai Chi loosening exercises, rooting for leg strength, breathing, Tai Chi massage, and Tai Chi postures. When you learn the Tai Chi postures, we follow the basic premise of Tai Chi that it is rooted in the feet, directed by the waist, and expressed with the hands. This will make your Tai Chi postures natural and concentrated.
The Finest and Professional Tai Chi Instructors
Master Rothrock has over 40 years of experience teaching Tai Chi. He has mastered the 24 Yang Style, the 108 Yang Style, the 108 Wu Style along with various Tai Chi weapons. Tai Chi is also a comprehensive self-defense system that uses sensing hands to teach a practitioner the principles of Tai Chi for self-defense. So whether you just want to use Tai Chi for a health and vitality exercise or incorporate the advanced self-defense aspects, you know you’re getting the very best Tai Chi instruction.
The Five Parts of Tai Chi Class for Health & Vitality:
Each Tai Chi class has five steps. Each step develops and maximizes one of the many benefits of Tai Chi such as relaxation, muscle tone, flexibility, balance… and more. This way you learn the essence of Tai Chi and understand the fundamentals of each Tai Chi posture or movement. This way you get the full benefit of every Tai Chi class.
Tai Chi’s gentle & relaxed stretching is simple and easy to do and designed to improve your flexibility and overall joint health.
Tai Chi Rooting improves your leg strength, flexibility, and balance.
Tai Chi Hand Expression relaxes the shoulders, neck, elbows, and wrists as it improves joint flexibility and motion. These hand and arm techniques are combined with the deep, relaxed breathing of Tai Chi to exercising the internal organs and aid in relaxation.
Tai Chi massage uses the same points associated with acupressure and acupuncture. Tai Chi massage assists you with deeper muscle and joint relaxation.
Tai Chi postures are combined into a routine for daily practice. Each posture combines Tai Chi’s gentle stretching with the rooting for leg strength and balance… and hand expression for relaxing and improving your range of motion. Each posture is a complete exercise from developing muscle tone, improving flexibility to relaxation.
Tai Chi Saying
When a man is born, he is soft and weak,
When a man dies, he becomes stiff and hard,
Thus the stiff and unyielding follow death,
The soft and yielding follow life.
6 Principles of Tai Chi to harmonize your Body & Mind:
There are six principles for developing good Tai Chi. We teach you these principles as you learn each posture of Tai Chi.
Principle 1 – Concentrated
Principle 2 – Slow Action
Principle 3 – Rooting
Principle 4 – Natural movement
Principle 5 – Relaxation
Principle 6 – Circular movement of Tai Chi