The Health Benefits and history
Tai Chi and Chi kung are very beneficial to your health.
Tai chi is a series of flowing movements…
Join Red Lotus Tai chi and Qi Gong to improve your body's health, reflexes, stress, confidence, mental health and inner awareness, tai chi is known to improve your memory as well.
Through Tai Chi, I teach my pupils to build feeling, discipline, strength, intention, and focus. Learn how to unwind and calm your body and mind. Stretching your body properly will eventually give you the elasticity you need to be competent in Tai chi. Soft and pliant exercise can also help you gain speed and strength.These exercises aid in the opening of your body's meridians. It aids in the free flow of energy both within and externally. Your blood flow will have a higher vibrational level as a result of the increased vibrational levels.
You may stay healthy by avoiding illnesses and diseases. In scientific terms, we are stretching the fascia, not engaging the muscles, and opening the joints to increase synovial fluid. The fascia is the white tissue that covers the muscles and bones and helps generate communication throughout the body.
WHAT ARE THE HEALTH BENEFITS OF TAI CHI AND CHI GONG
Eastern society uses Tai Chi for Health to prevent a wide range of ailments and to improve other physical functions such as: Diabetes, Parkinson's disease, heart disease, myocardial infarction, and other heart-related issues It can aid in the prevention of strokes, arthritis, breast cancer, hypertension, and other diseases. Muscle strength and memory will be improved. It will help to enhance immunity, physical function, mental health, bodily pain, and increase your vitality and memory function, to name a few....
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tai chi principles and training
I can assist you in understanding what is expected of you as a student in terms of practise. The following are some of the training principles:
Use Tai Chi principles and movements in your daily life.
Create your internal body shape and then you can build a solid foundation
Train your mind to move your body.
Focus outside of yourself to enliven your senses
You'll have to enrol in my classes to learn more about these training methods...
Qi Gong benefits and training practices
The Chinese researched the effects of Qi gong on a variety of illnesses and discovered that deep breathing connected with Tai chi and Qi gong greatly benefited and cured Asthma, Bronchitis, and Pneumonia in over 80% of instances. It was also good for the heart, hypertension, and blood pressure. It was determined that after just eight weeks of practise, improvements were visible, and that 97.7% of individuals who remained with their practise had stable, reduced blood pressure. Over a 30-year period, 47.76 percent of people in a control group died, with 32.50 percent of them dying from stroke, while just 25.41 percent of those in the Qi gong group died, with only 15.57 percent of them dying from stroke... These people also underwent ultrasound and the Qi gong group was found to have stronger heart muscles and left ventricular function.
The volume of blood travelling to the brain, hands, and feet is also increased by qi gong. The deep relaxation induced by Qi gong enables the blood arteries to gently dilate, allowing more blood to flow through them.
Qi gong helps to enhance your digestive system by naturally eliminating toxins and pollutants. It helps with stomach and duodenal ulcers, and in a study of 515 persons, 70.8 percent of those who practised regularly were cured of their ulcers.
According to Chinese medicine, when the Qi and Blood are strengthened, we are better equipped to fight infection and sickness. Qi gong has also been widely utilised to boost and enhance the immune system by tonifying the Qi and Blood.
A lot of cancer patients used Qi gong, and over 80% of them restored their vigour, 63 percent increased their appetite, and over 20% had their liver function normalised.
Hearing, vision, memory, skin elasticity, bone density, response time, cholesterol levels, hormone levels, physical strength, Kidney function, focus, discipline, and, perhaps most importantly in these hurried times, relaxation are all benefits of Qi Gong.
The goal of Qi gong is to maintain your body calm throughout so that the meridians may open and the natural flow of energy can flow through your body.
Qi gong also enhances the Qi energy that runs through every cell in our bodies and is essential to our survival.
Qi gong has helped many individuals overcome a range of health problems for over 7000 years, and the majority of Qi gong practitioners are great healers.
Another type of natural healing is Qi, which is channelled by the healer into the individual receiving treatment.
Qi gong is a comprehensive study of how to move energy around your body, with origins in the 5 element theory and Meridian theory, which are the foundations of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).
From internal to external, Taoist, Buddhist, and Shaolin, there are many various types of Qi gong. BA DUAN JIN, YI JIN JING, and 5 animal Qigong, to name a few, all have many distinct meanings and modifications.
One of my favourites is PRIMORDIAL QIGONG a set by the late great Grandmaster Feng Zhiqiang pictured below…
Other types of Qi gong include Fire Dragon Meridian Qi gong, Medical Qi gong, Dao Yin Yang Sheng Gong Shi Er Fa, Shamanic Cosmic Orbit Qi gong, Dragon Gate Qi gong, Zhang Zhuang, Swimming Dragon Qi gong, Dao-in, The Yi Jing Medical Qi gong System, Dragon Dao yin exercises, and Daoist Nei Gong, which is one of the highest expressions of Qi gong available today...
The cultivation of both the spirit and the body is crucial. If you are younger, you can start with the spirit and then move on to the physical, but if you are older, you must first strengthen your health before moving on to the physical. If the body is weak, and Jing (vital essence of the body) and qi (life activating energy) are insufficient, we utilise movement to purify Jing, with the added benefit of mind discipline and physical injury healing.
Jing and Qi diminish at a faster and faster rate as we age.
To achieve good health and longevity, we need a lot of Jing.
Jing, according to Daoist belief, resides in your kidneys, hence any activity that depletes your Jing is harmful.
MY TAI CHI AND QI GONG JOURNEY
Hello, my name is Darren, and I've been doing Tai Chi (taiji) and Qi gong (Chi Gong) for over 20 years. I've been teaching for 11 years and have taught many people from many walks of life. They all had different health difficulties when they first started practising tai chi and qigong, just like I did when I first started. Everyone who begins tai chi will immediately discover that it benefits their health in surprising ways. Tai chi, in my opinion, is for cultivating vital energy, while qi gong (pronounced chi kung) is for moving that vital energy about the body, opening the joints, engaging the fascia connective tissue, and benefiting the entire body! In reality, qi gong is the Chinese key to good health.
My main issue was my back (I am 6ft 6inches tall) the other issue I had was my short term memory it was so bad I had to write everything down in the beginning of my Tai chi and Qi Gong journey just to remember the movements and sequences which can be challenging to learn without regular practice.
A very good friend who is no longer with us introduced me to my first teacher, I owe my Taiji career to my good friend James Wayman. After my first tai chi school. I was taught for 8 years by another good friend James Langcake, who learned from Arvo Tucker and then Master Wang Hai Jun who taught James for 18 years. Master Wang Hai Jun was taught by Chen Zhenglei a direct Chen family member and linage holder from the age of 8… Chen tai chi is regarded as the original school of Tai Chi. That is until you speak to the taoist priests who regard Zhang Sanfeng as the founder of tai chi born in the 12th century and lived for 307 years, being regarded as a Daoist immortal he was proficient in white crane, snake and Jian (sword) and is said to have created the concept of Neijia (translated as Internal) Neigong or Neijing is the basis for tai chi.
I had a real thirst for knowledge and wanted to know what true tai chi was all about, so I travelled to China and met my current teacher Master Ou Hai Bing, who was taught by a very famous Tai chi teacher and Chinese national treasure named Grandmaster Feng Zhiqiang, who was taught by a very famous teacher called Master Hu Yaozhen, a legend in the qi gong world, from whom he learned internal qi gong cues. Later, his master introduced him to Chen Fake, a prominent Chen style taiji representative at the time. Several decades later, Feng Zhiqiang succeeded Chen Fake., carrying on the traditions of Chen Fake’s tai chi and promoting Chen Taiji to the rest of the world.
So to present day just before the world lockdown started I met Howard Wang the founder of Prana Dynamics this experience changed me forever it was exactly what I needed and has helped boost my skill level in Tai Chi and Qigong, I continue to marry the Prana Dynamics with my tai chi and qi gong. In this internal mind awareness exercise we work very closely with the fascia and the use of Yi. My Prana dynamics journey has only just begun but I feel it is the missing link in all tai chi.
During lockdown I learned from Howard Wang, Liang De Hua (Yang), Adam Mizner (Yang) and more recently Mark Rasmus (another Yang style tai chi teacher), I regard their skill and knowledge to be among the best out there.
Tai chi and qi gong health wise has a long list of things that it can help and in China these studies have been lengthy and extensive ask yourself this question, would you like any of the following?
Reduce stress, Lose Weight, improve confidence, be more healthy, improve balance or improve memory, recover faster from illness or injury, increase your immune system to combat disease and illness much easier or simply get healthy and fit in a friendly environment.
If the answer is yes then I am the teacher for you. I am happy to share my Tai Chi and Qi Gong knowledge
My students come from every walk of life and a great number of my students have been with me for many years, My health plan for you works to give you more energy, more health, more confidence and more balance… Over time your memory will improve and your friends will ask you why look so good, how come you are so calm?
Tai Chi and Qi gong can really benefit your life. It really saved mine.
I hope i can help you improve your health, fitness and help you manage your stress levels bringing your body back to peace and harmony.
