https://youtu.be/NlHI6_z26nM Your body is an important gift. With this gift, you sense, feel, and know yourself from the inside out. The gift of embodiment is important because you learn through the body's feedback system. You need feedback in order to sense, evaluate...
https://youtu.be/6KyUxV368Aw There are three ways you can experience Chi when you do Tai Chi long enough. Your hands and fingers become warm and swollen. Tai Chi practice increases blood flow to your hands and fingers. This is a sure sign that your Chi is flowing. You...
https://youtu.be/ji0ZBfx7fKo If you have poor circulation, it means that certain parts of your body are not getting enough blood, nutrients, and oxygen. This may cause a particular part of your body to experience unwanted symptoms. When you have poor circulation, you...
https://youtu.be/emmJ2gka5Gw If you are looking to build strength as you age, start by training your legs. Without your legs, you'd be very limited. You wouldn’t be able to carry your groceries or simply get around as easily. When we build strength, we...
https://youtu.be/DDMPEhDmRDI When you think of exercise, you think of it as a commitment. There's a lot involved, such as setting a time for it, eating around it, and being properly dressed for it. There are minimum requirements for doing exercise. You have to buy the...
https://youtu.be/fsrJLRhUkro Controlled breathing, regulated breathing, breathwork, or any type of breathing exercise produces Chi or life force in your body. Chi can then be accumulated in the lower belly. It can also be gathered in other centers of your body, such...
https://youtu.be/qRbqsDwgAEA Are you always thinking about the past? Do you replay events over and over in your head? Do you carry negative emotions from your past and carry them into the present only to find out that you're not living the life you want to live? This...
https://youtu.be/NT1xQ31QPqk Breathing is more important than eating and drinking. That's obvious, isn't it?We view eating and drinking as important and essential, and that's because we can buy them with money. By contrast, the air is available everywhere. It's...
https://youtu.be/cAGk1igV0l8 How Many Heartbeats Do You Have In A Lifetime? You may have heard of the theory that you and I have an allotted number of heartbeats in our lifetime. If this is the case, you may be wondering: Does exercise, which elevates your heart rate,...
Fear is everywhere. These days, everyone is afraid of being judged. They’re afraid of losing their friends, afraid of losing their businesses, or they’re afraid of losing their jobs…
https://youtu.be/NSPeSf4iI78 Why Practice Tai Chi? Tai Chi is practiced for many reasons. One reason is for self-care which is used for enhancing your health and healing. The breathing techniques used during Tai Chi can really help you to reduce your stress...
https://youtu.be/u4JC5kBHDfc How to Ground Yourself with Walking We walk for the sole purpose of getting from one place to another. For example, when you walk to your job, you just want to get there. Along the way, you may subject yourself to pollution, or to large...
https://youtu.be/4Y1yqml9f7o By Observing Silence, You Can Hear Your Thoughts In stillness, you make the energy of your body healthy. You make yourself strong mentally. You become open to the moment and to more possibilities when you open your energy channels. Your...
https://youtu.be/KXI3Oat9BWM Overwhelmed, Burned Out, Super-stressed Out? Now's the time to realize that you're probably pushing yourself too hard. Maybe you're tired all the time, or you have trouble staying focused. You may be getting sick more often, or maybe...
These emotions can range from mild to really extreme, but they all fall under one category… And the category is ‘energy blocks.’ Energy blocks are often associated with your emotions. They stem from not knowing what is happening to you, because you’re not honest about your emotions and where they really come from.
What is perhaps more powerful than your mind and has more power over your body?
Have you ever admired the person who is capable of remaining level-headed, who is poised, unaffected by disruptive outside forces, or by disorderly human beings in a world where we all get excited or upset by the news?
The practice of Tai Chi movements can stimulate blood circulation, release the physical stagnation in the body, and ultimately relax the mind.
A Way To Attain Inner Satisfaction And Live In Harmony.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful to tune out your surroundings and have access to your full capabilities at any time, in any place, despite any, and every difficulty?
You Have More Brains Than You Think.
Is your brain causing all sorts of doubt and suspicion, taking you on head trips and making you go around in circles?
Your Health Does Not Have To Decline As You Age.
At the Art of Tai Chi, we feel that each person has the right to live a life free of physical pain and mental disharmony, and grow into a life full of spiritual selflessness….
A High Level of Thinking for Healing
Avoid Build-up Of Tension And Energy Blockages In Your Body
Internal exercise detoxes the body, and is the key to your longevity.
Set Your Mind and Body in Motion with Internal Exercise…
When your energy levels are high, healing is taking place in your body. To heal is to optimize your health and well-being.
Remember a time when you were always healthy, extremely energetic, a time when you had good endurance? When you ran around a lot and didn’t feel tired all the time? When you had good digestion, when you were able to eat…
Yin-Yang is about working together, complementing each other, emphasizing one thing for the greater good, and enhancing each other. This is coherence and balance in life. There’s no more “us versus them” mentality, and your SPIRIT can be intact.
There is such a thing as not getting enough exercise, which is underdosing and getting too much, which is overdosing. So the Dao tells us, and the Dao is nature – nature tells us that extremes are no good.
When you do Tai Chi movements, they may be small, they may be slow, but it’s humbling. You feel alive. You have feelings of abundance because at this moment of time, you are truly present and you are feeling what you’re feeling now, not what you felt a day ago or a week ago…
When your energy is clear and free-flowing throughout your body, then you’re in perfectly good health. When your energy is not free-flowing throughout the body, then there are blockages that may be in the way to prevent your internal organs from receiving the nourishment they need to perform.
Bodily energy is divided into two types. One is yin energy, which is calm and sedated in nature. The other is yang energy, which is stimulative and tonic in nature. Both have to be in balance for you to have a good night’s sleep.
If you just go through the motions without feeling your hands, then Tai Chi would not be beneficial to you. It’s more important to learn to feel than it is to learn where your hands go. And to do that, you must learn to let go.
The human experience is processed by three components – the mind, heart and body. We observe with the mind. We feel with the heart. We live in the world through the body. These three components work together to make you an individual – one with the universe.
If you do not improve your balance, you increase your chances of having a fall. You have to be careful because you lose balance as you age or each time you catch a disease. And if you think this only happens to older people, then I would advise you to start preparing for fall prevention NOW.
Today, I am going to give you the inside scoop on breathing deeply. It’s important because you breathe in air and air is considered to be one of the primary sources of energy. Your energy is depleted through daily living…
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