Tai Chi for Seniors

What are the benefits of Tai Chi Practice? Lets find out

What is the structure of Tai Chi and how is it practiced?

What is the structure of this course and how will it help you to develop your Tai Chi?

As with any physical training method, the practice needs to remain as safe as possible. Please take time to listen to this video with advice on how to make your practice safe.

One of the cornerstones of Tai Chi is breathing. Lets look at some of the details on how we breath in our Tai Chi

Tai Chi demands a unique posture, built to maximize efficiency and a healthy spine.

In the Tai Chi forms we must step and move in certain ways. How we shift our weight is an important part of this process.

Maintaining correct effort, extension and movement is characterised by the 70% rule

To do Tai Chi well, we must first make sure we focus our intention and attention properly.

Sung means to release. This is a vital part of any Tai Chi Practice.

Welcome to your first session! 

This is your first follow along lesson. Put the session on and follow along with the movements at home. Be sure to check out the detailed instruction for each movement if you are unsure how to perform them.

Learn the technique of Gathering and sealing that we perform at the start and end of a Tai Chi Session

The form opening motion is to Raise and Lower the Arms. Here you will learn the details of this method.

Opening the Chest is a powerful Qigong to awaken the upper body and the breathing

The fantastically named Repulse the monkey, is one of the first motions you will perform in the Tai Chi Form.

Here we have the follow along lesson number 2. B

Holding the Ball is a transitional movement that occurs throughout the Tai Chi form

Brush knee and push is a beautiful and interesting Tai Chi movement which appears in the form and the 18 Shibashi Qigong.

Here is your follow along session for Section 3 of the Tai Chi Academy.

Parting the wild horses mane is a technique that shows the Tai Chi concept of Separating

Waving hands in the clouds qigong

This session we focus on balancing and standing on one leg which is common in the Yang Style of Tai Chi

In some points of the Tai Chi form we have to stand on one leg. This lesson helps you safely build up confidence and balance in doing this.

Bouncing the ball helps you to understand maintaining stability as you balance on one leg

Here we continue our work of standing on one leg, this time with an important movement from the forms

Often we forget that Tai Chi is a Martial Art! Here we learn a technique called "Separate and Kick"

Here we examine the primary "Energy" of Tai Chi known as Peng or Ward off.

The pure Yin power of Tai Chi - Lu or Rolling back

Ji is the concept of "squeezing" or pressing.

The final of the 4 powers is An - to push downward

Now we put together the 4 powers into the Grasping Sparrows Tail movement

At the end of the form we need to close our practice. This is where Tigers Embrace movement comes in.

Congratulations and well done! You have completed your Tai Chi for Seniors Course!