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Explore the origins of qigong and tai chi, from chi kung and dao yin to medical qigong, and discover how these moving meditations enhance health and balance.
Improve balance and reduce fall risk by 45–50% through tai chi and qigong, strengthening the core and pelvis, enhancing breathing, circulation, and qi energy in movement.
Learn the Forest Rock qigong dao yin routine to embrace the mountain posture, align the body, and cultivate qi from the lower dantian using breath and kidney point activation.
Practice a warm-up and sage presents a peach sequence to improve balance through Tai Chi movements, alignment, and qi flow from kidney and long gong points to the dantian.
Improve balance and leg strength through a qigong and tai chi warm-up that coordinates breath with movement and strengthens the kidneys.
Learn rolling with the waves, a forest rock school qigong sequence from the shibashi set, to improve balance, breath control, and energy flow through the kidneys, dantian, and meridians.
Engage in the five animal frolics-inspired warm-up and breathwork to activate the lung meridian, featuring bird stretching and flying to build balance and calm the body and mind.
Build balance with Tai chi walking, starting from shaking qigong and a quiet standing posture, then practice 45-degree steps and brush knee movements as a walking meditation.
Practice the Golden Rooster Walk, a Tai Chi movement, with a walking progression that shifts weight, coordinates arm and leg, and improves balance.
It has been proven through studies across the globe that Tai Chi has reduced the risk of falls in over 50% of the cases. Many Doctors have recommended it as well as hospitals offering it. This course builds on improving ones balance through a variety of Qigong and Tai Chi movements. You will also understand many of the reasons balance can decline and how to tackle those challenges. Not only will one gain strength and more flexibility but one will also lower their blood pressure and lower their stress. We live in a world today where many have learned to multitask and some of us can't. Thoughts and external distractions disrupt our living and being present in the moment. Through focusing our breath and coordinating our movements we also exercise the right and left side of the brain which has a huge impact in our balance. Each individual movement in the course practiced is in itself a meditation to quiet one's mind. Although the focus is on balance there will be some mention relating to Traditional Chinese Medicine. Since the course is based on Qigong and Tai Chi there are other golden nuggets which benefit ones health by practicing the movements. These are mentioned throughout the class and yet not too much to overwhelm you. Highly recommend this to improve one's balance.