Tai Chi in North Devon -Yang Style(Longfei North Devon, classes in Barnstaple and Bideford) |
"What greater gift can you give yourself than peace and happiness -
a spirituality that places value on your very life's journey." Terry
Tai Chi
Tai Chi is a system of flowing, gentle movements originating in China and based on ancient martial arts that benefit the mind, body and spirit. It helps relieve stress and build a flexible and responsive body leading to a sense of physical and mental well being. Tai Chi is reputed to “lower stress; slow aging; boost the immune system; help with asthma, arthritis, and migraines……”
Even thinking about finding a class is a positive step but going to a class and practicing gives you an opportunity to use, relax and stretch your mind as well as your body and to increase your self belief and self discipline, and become 'body aware' ... of your body ... that's the place in which you live all of your life!
Tai Chi can improve your power, balance and posture. There is increasing scientific proof, if you ever needed it, regarding the health benefits of Chi Kung and Tai Chi. Regularly such detail may be read in the pages of
'TAI CHI CHUAN', the journal of the Tai Chi Union of Great Britain or similar quality journals.
Joining good associations like Longfei Taijiquan Association of Great Britain can also open up doors to new learning and at the same time give you a foot firmly rooted in the rich history of Chinese Arts.
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Transient wisdoms:-
New understandings can arrive in an instant.
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“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise,
seek what they sought.”
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“Some things are hurrying into existence, and others are hurrying out of it; and of that which is coming into existence part is already extinguished. Motions and changes are continually renewing the world, just as the uninterrupted course of time is always renewing the infinite duration of the ages.
In this flowing stream then, on which there is no abiding,
what is there of the things that hurry by on which a man would set a high price?”
Marcus Aurelius
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The wise man leads you not to enter the house of his own wisdom but
leads you to the threshold of your own learning.
Kahlil Gibran
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