What is Tai Chi?
It is not just about old people sneaking up on trees.
How can one exercise be so many things to so many people? Well, it is not just one exercise.
It is not just about old people sneaking up on trees.
How can one exercise be so many things to so many people? Well, it is not just one exercise.
It combines elements similar to yoga, martial arts, meditation, philosophy, art, psychology, physics, and healing arts, to achieve the goals that are common to all of these endeavours:
Peace, health, vitality, and enlightenment.
Well documented health benefits
Moving meditation to expand your awareness and explore the connection between thought, emotion, posture, and movement.
A comprehensive curriculum.
Skills to complement other martial arts.
Community and connection
Core Aspects
Physical
Mental
Spiritual
Emotional
Internal Exercises
External Exercises
Core Practices
Optional Training
The Philosophy
Join students from around the world in discovering the profound benefits of modern tai chi teaching
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• Solo routines
• Breath and neigong and qigong ("chee-gong")
• Two-person exercises
• Philosophy
• Physics
• Problem solving
• Exercises with apparatus
• Staff, ball, sabre
• Fan, spear, ruler
• Martial arts training
Tai chi embodies the ancient, and often over-simplified, concepts of universal duality, (yin and yang). It teaches us to seek balance and harmony, both internally and externally, between opposing forces - strength and softness, movement and stillness, effort and relaxation. It also shows how strength can be found in our apparnet weaknesses, and the vulnerability of supposed strengths.
Through practice, we learn to apply these principles not just in movement, but in all aspects of life, creating a path to greater wisdom, efficiency, power, and inner peace.
Sinclair Martial Arts
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Orillia ON L3V 1V4
Canada