Taichi & Your Health
Peter Wayne in his Harvard Medical Guide to Taichi listed a number of active ingredients of taichi that have great impact on the body’s physiological and psychological level.
- Awareness (mindfulness and focus): the most fundamental feature of taichi,
- Intention: imagery and visualization, contribute significantly to the therapeutic and physiological effects of Tai Chi. Biomechanically efficient shapes and patterns of movement have functional consequences across systems such as nervous, respiratory, endocrine and immune and cardiovascular system.
- Active Relaxation: Tai Chi’s round, circular, flowing motion helps shift the body and mind into deeper levels of relaxation, and is a form of meditation in motion.
- Strengthening and Flexibility: The integrated movements resulting in less strain, greater power with effortless movement, and better balance. The slowness of the Tai Chi movements, in combination with slightly flexed stances and placing weight on one leg at a time for sustained periods, leads to significant lower extremity strength training and increased loading on the skeleton, which promotes strong bones. In addition, slow, continuous, relaxed, and repetitive movement also results in dynamic stretching, which enhances overall flexibility. Natural, more efficient breathing improves oxygen exchange, massages body tissues and internal organs, helps regulate the nervous system, improves mood, and balances and moves Qi within the body and between the body and the environment.
Christina has been learning Yang style Taichi from Grand Master Yek Sing Ong from 2007 till 2017 and world renowned taichi teacher Wee Kee Jin since 2017 after she came to New Zealand. She has been teaching the Zheng Manqing’s short form on a weekly basis at Waikato Events Centre, Coromandel Town and Colville Hall. The current class in Coromandel town is at 4 pm on a Tuesday. She practices Taichi and 8 Brocades Qigong with her students on Saturday/Sunday mornings in a natural setting and shares her experience and true passion for this ancient healing art.
Taichi & Your Health
Peter Wayne in his Harvard Medical Guide to Taichi listed a number of active ingredients of taichi that have great impact on the body’s physiological and psychological level.
- Awareness (mindfulness and focus): the most fundamental feature of taichi,
- Intention: imagery and visualization, contribute significantly to the therapeutic and physiological effects of Tai Chi. Biomechanically efficient shapes and patterns of movement have functional consequences across systems such as nervous, respiratory, endocrine and immune and cardiovascular system.
- Active Relaxation: Tai Chi’s round, circular, flowing motion helps shift the body and mind into deeper levels of relaxation, and is a form of meditation in motion.
- Strengthening and Flexibility: The integrated movements resulting in less strain, greater power with effortless movement, and better balance. The slowness of the Tai Chi movements, in combination with slightly flexed stances and placing weight on one leg at a time for sustained periods, leads to significant lower extremity strength training and increased loading on the skeleton, which promotes strong bones. In addition, slow, continuous, relaxed, and repetitive movement also results in dynamic stretching, which enhances overall flexibility. Natural, more efficient breathing improves oxygen exchange, massages body tissues and internal organs, helps regulate the nervous system, improves mood, and balances and moves Qi within the body and between the body and the environment.
Christina has been learning Yang style taichi from Grand Master Yek Sing Ong from 2007 till 2017 and world renowned taichi teacher Wee Kee Jin since 2017 after she came to New Zealand. She has been teaching the Zheng Manqing’s short form on a weekly basis at Waikato Events Centre, Coromandel Town and Colville Hall. The current class in Coromandel town is at 4 pm on a Tuesday. She practices Taichi and 8 Brocades Qigong with her students on Friday/Saturday/Sunday mornings in a natural setting and shares her experience and true passion for this ancient healing art.