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T’ai Ch’i and Qi Gong


T’ai Ch’i and Qi Gong have similar approaches to body fitness and alignment. They can be learned alongside any other form of exercise and will in many instances augment the process of regaining and/or maintaining fitness.

I will be teaching simple sequences of movements that you can practice and develop in your own time. Emphasis initially will be placed on body alignment within the movements.

In the eastern philosophical approach to health one of the important features is body alignment, structure and breath. If we begin to misalign our structure through our activities during busy everyday life, then the internal structures, including the internal organs can have impaired function and in turn may lead to ill health. If we have a raised shoulder through carrying bags then immediately, if this is not corrected, we can see that one lung has more skeletal space than the other and so an imbalance is created.

T’ai Ch’i and Qi Gong both ask us to become aware of our body as a whole and enables us to become conscious of our own alignment so we can correct ourselves. This style of exercise is very much about self awareness and generating positive change for ourselves whenever we have a space in the day. Often we are only aware of our bodies when they hurt, however we can be self aware of improved structural alignment to maintain a supple, fluid grace.