What is Tai-Chi-Quan?Tai-Chi-Quan (pronounced tie-gee-chuan) is a series of
slow, precise, well practiced movements combined with breathing control that bring about a
state of calmness and peace in the practitioner, while simultaneously improving
cardiovascular function, strength, and flexibility, and relieving stress and tension. The
body, mind, and spirit are regarded as an integrated whole, and the training approach
reflects this.
What can Tai-Chi do for you?
- Stress reduction. Through
the practice of Tai-Chi principles and exercises, the student learns to relax completely.
Continuing practice allows the student to become generally more calm, peaceful and
centered even when he / she is not actively practicing.
- Flexibility and strength.The
slow, deliberate and precise movements of the Tai-Chi form are specifically designed, and
have been refined over thousands of years, to produce the maximum range of motion in the
practitioner, to open the joints, and elongate the muscles. This is accomplished without
trauma to the student, and anyone can benefit, no matter where on the “fitness
scale” they start.
- General health improvement.
Practitioners of Tai-Chi enjoy better health, and a longer richer and better quality of
life. As we approach and move through middle age and then into the golden age, that gift
of health and vitality grows more precious with each day, a wisdom the Chinese masters
have known for centuries.
(c) William Bunting
2004 all rights reserved
Indiana Tai-Chi-Quan Academy
Carmel, Indiana
(317) 818-8297
