| :: Tai Chi :: |
| Tai Chi exercise enhances flexibility & tones muscles, and assists the practitioner to dispel stress through a series of fluid, circular movements. |
| Tai Chi [Yang Style] |
Class Schedule:
Monday 6:30 - 7:30 PM ALL Levels
7:30 - 8:00 PM Level II Only
Saturday 8:00 - 9:30 AM ALL Levels
What Is Tai Chi?
Tai chi (pronounced "tie chee") is an ancient Chinese discipline that integrates mind, body,
and spirit. Practitioners use meditation and deep breathing as they move through a series of
continuous exercises, called "forms," which resemble slow-moving ballet.
Though it originated as a martial art (evolving from qigong), Tai Chi is now practiced more for
its therapeutic benefits, which include reducing stress, promoting balance and flexibility, and
even easing arthritis pain.
For hundreds of years, groups of Chinese people, many of them elderly, have performed its
fluid, graceful movements in parks throughout China as a way of staying vital. Today, many
people in the United States, Canada, and Europe have become interested in attaining the
health benefits of this ancient art as well.
How Does Tai Chi Work?
It is believed that Tai Chi, a component of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), increases
strength and promotes calm and harmony by improving the flow of internal energy (or qi)
throughout the body.
It is the calming, meditative aspect of Tai Chi that makes it particularly useful for reducing
stress and Anxiety indeed, people who do Tai Chi regularly say that it improves their sense of
well-being.
As an aerobic exercise, Tai Chi benefits the entire body, increasing muscle strength and
enhancing balance and flexibility. People who practice Tai Chi are also said to exploit the
strength of yin (the earth) and the energy of yang (the heavens) through exercises designed
to express these forces in balanced and harmonious form.
Health Benefits of Tai Chi
Tai Chi can be used as a preventive health measure, as a way to maintain good health, or to
help with a specific ailment. While Tai chi cannot cure disease, it is often recommended as a
complementary therapy to conventional treatment.
Specifically, Tai Chi can be used to help:
- Arthritis. By strengthening the muscles surrounding an arthritic joint and improving
flexibility, Tai Chi increases range of motion without causing pain. Although Tai Chi
cannot treat bone and cartilage damage caused by arthritis, it can lessen the severity
and pain of the disease when started early enough.
- Balance. Research shows that practicing Tai Chi improves balance in older people
and thus reduces the risk of falling-a major cause of death and disability in the elderly.
- Circulation Problems. Tai Chi may enable the heart to pump more blood with each
beat, thereby improving circulation.
- High Blood Pressure. A recent study done at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
revealed that Tai Chi lowered blood pressure almost as much as moderate-intensity
aerobic exercise in older adults who had been sedentary.
- Multiple Sclerosis. Preliminary studies suggest that Tai Chi helps people with MS to
increase their physical functioning as well as their mental well-being.
- Stress. Although the evidence is limited, some studies have shown that Tai Chi is as
effective as meditation and walking for reducing the amount of stress hormones in the
body.
| Golden Crane |
| Golden Crane |
| (603) 437-2020 Rte.111 Windham NH |
| Tai Chi Camp in New York’s Hudson Valley, October 26-28, 2007 with 4th Generation Master Alex Dong [pictured center] Some familiar faces who attended the weekend long Tai Chi Camp include: 1st row: Chris McKenna, Janet Briggs. Standing: Beth Connors |
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Phone: (603) 437-2020
The Golden Crane is conveniently located minutes off
I-93 [Exit 3], on Rte.111, in beautiful Windham, NH.
E-mail: The_Golden_Crane@hotmail.com
Phone: (603) 437-2020
The Golden Crane is conveniently located minutes off
I-93 [Exit 3], on Rte.111, in beautiful Windham, NH.
| Traditional Martial Arts |
| Tai Chi Push Hands Workshop held on June 28-29, 2008, with Toni DeMoulin [Santa Barbara, CA] & Chris McKenna. Some of the students in attendance are pictured above [from l to r]: Mark Guire, Corni Forster, unknown, Janet Briggs, Toni DeMoulin, Chris McKenna, Beth Connors, Matthew Connors |
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