Tai Chi Chuan and Qi Gong - 06/16/19 07:56 PM
Odd topic, perhaps. My wife and I joined our Senior Services Center this year for the first time. I have started studying Tai Chi with some other older folks. I have studied some other arts, Tomiki aikido especially, and some weapons and other martial forms when I was much younger. I am studying the history, learning some forms, and I have been a very quick study at picking up on what stuff I am moderately lousy at. I write it off to a journey of learning, focus on my breathing, and get more reps with an open mind as I try to focus and relax.
A secondary part of this thread is the health part above. As "moving meditation" the QG can improve health and aging concerns according to claims. Balance, relaxation, blood pressure, strength, flexibility, and a variety of health factors may be strengthened and improved.
So, I asking the dawgs for several things, though the thread's door is open to others assuredly. Can you share any experience you have with this martial art? I am not a total newbie, but I welcome any tips, insight, wisdom, hindsight your experiences may have produced. I am interested in the health side as well. Some classes pursue almost all that and exclude the martial aspects of Tai Chi almost completely. It is my biggest hope for this class; I feel it has already helped some arthritis spots and old football injuries. They hurt daily before and still do, but less. Have you practiced this or do you know of it? I am reading about the theory and history of its evolution and find that very interesting. I have been told and I have also read that these two are always taught together. I am truly interested if you have some anecdotal "evidence" if you have first-hand experience in the health side or tips that might be shared about that. I am fewer than six months in, but I am feeling better. Maybe I am brainwashing myself with wishful placebo thinking and hoping. I can live with that.
I guess finally if you have any forms or favorites you studied, resources, whatever, this might be a sharing opportunity. I recognize it is not for everybody, but that is true for the board as a whole. Thanks in advance for responses, insight, and assistance.
A secondary part of this thread is the health part above. As "moving meditation" the QG can improve health and aging concerns according to claims. Balance, relaxation, blood pressure, strength, flexibility, and a variety of health factors may be strengthened and improved.
So, I asking the dawgs for several things, though the thread's door is open to others assuredly. Can you share any experience you have with this martial art? I am not a total newbie, but I welcome any tips, insight, wisdom, hindsight your experiences may have produced. I am interested in the health side as well. Some classes pursue almost all that and exclude the martial aspects of Tai Chi almost completely. It is my biggest hope for this class; I feel it has already helped some arthritis spots and old football injuries. They hurt daily before and still do, but less. Have you practiced this or do you know of it? I am reading about the theory and history of its evolution and find that very interesting. I have been told and I have also read that these two are always taught together. I am truly interested if you have some anecdotal "evidence" if you have first-hand experience in the health side or tips that might be shared about that. I am fewer than six months in, but I am feeling better. Maybe I am brainwashing myself with wishful placebo thinking and hoping. I can live with that.
I guess finally if you have any forms or favorites you studied, resources, whatever, this might be a sharing opportunity. I recognize it is not for everybody, but that is true for the board as a whole. Thanks in advance for responses, insight, and assistance.
