What is Tai Ji?

Tai Ji (chi) is one of the most effective ways to develop balanced health for the mind and the body.  There are many different styles of Tai Ji (chi). The major ones are Chen, Yang, Wu, and Sun. Each style has its own features, but all styles share the same essential principles.

Tai Ji forms include Tai Ji Quan and Tai Ji Sword. Tai Ji sword is more advanced because it requires more mind and body coordination. Both Tai Ji Quan and Tai Ji Sword involve a series of postures transit slowly from one to the other in a smooth, focused manner, like slow, graceful dances that keep your body in constant motion. Each posture was designed based on dynamic physic theory and traditional Chinese mediation principles. The ultimate purpose of Tai Ji is to cultivate the life energy or Qi within us to flow smoothly and powerfully throughout the body. 

Tai Ji forms include three key components: movement, meditation, and deep breathing. These three components emphases on the three regulations of body focus, mental focus, and breathing focus. When gentle, flowing movements are accompanied by deep breathing, it promotes serenity, often referred to as meditation in motion. The combination of self-awareness with self-correction of the body posture and movement, the flow of breath, and stilling of the mind could comprise a state which activates the natural self-regulatory or self-healing capacity, stimulating the balanced release of endogenous neurons hormones and a wide array of natural health recovery mechanisms.