Shanghai Pathways

Would you like to learn Tai Chi, but don't know where to start? Or perhaps you're an experienced practitioner looking to enhance your skills. Maybe you're just wondering, what is this Tai Chi stuff about, anyway?

Taiji Quan (Tai Chi Chuan) is based on Chinese Qigong and Taoist principles. This system is particularly effective for health and healing, strength, power and disease prevention. It utilizes the ancient philosophy of Yin-Yang and the Five Element theories for its foundation and to establish its training principles. The experience of hundreds of years has shown that practicing tai chi can improve one's health, reduce tension, and alleviate a number of ailments such as high blood pressure, arthritis, asthma, stomach and heart problems, and anxiety. Techniques used to develop internal qi for martial arts combat also proved to be effective as life-prolonging and healing exercises. Today, tai chi is best known by the millions of practitioners around the world for its health benefits.

This Tai Chi workshop includes exercises that stretch and tone the body through internal training, you will get to know the Tai Chi concept, insider technique, and the basic Tai Chi move. Along with learning the form, the emphasis is placed on structural integration, application of Tai Chi principles in daily life, and more.