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Sunday, January 4, 2015

Learn Tai Chi Basics In A Few Minutes

By Stacey Burt


Now Tai Chi is known to be one of the best ways for one to be able to increase his health because it is a way for one to gather up his chi and use it to strengthen his body. Because of the presence of chi, one will not only have very strong internal organs but also a strong muscular and skeletal system to. So if one is willing to learn tai chi, then here is an overview of what he will be doing.

Now before going to the physical aspect of the art, one has to first concentrate on the internal or the health aspect because if one is healthy, it will reflect on the outside. So one of the most important things that one would have to take note of would be the breathing. Proper breathing is an integral part of the art because it will give one energy as well as make him strong.

Now the proper way to breathe would be to first inhale deeply through the nose and then exhale also through the nose slowly. Now while one is inhaling, he has to make sure that his stomach is filled with air. Then while he exhales, he has to breathe out all of that air that was collected inside the stomach.

Now one has to make this type of breathing his primary way of breathing because it is the correct way. When he has already gotten used to breathing like this, then he can already move on to the more physical part of the art. The first thing to do would be to learn about the basic stance.

Now the very first stance that one will be learning will be the horse riding stance. Now this is one of the most important stances of them all because it is a stance that one will be assuming a lot as he is doing the forms. It is also a stance wherein one can actually reap many health benefits.

So in order to assume this stance, one will first be standing in an upright position with his hands and legs relaxed. From his relaxed position, he should first breathe in and then breathe out while he slowly bends his legs. Now he has to make sure that his legs are rather apart and his hands are relaxed and down. After one has mastered this stance, then he will be practicing that everyday and mastering it before he can go on to the next one.

After learning the horse stance, he will then be learning the bow stance which is a forward stance. He will then also be learning the cat stance wherein majority of the weight of his body will rest on the back leg. He will then slowly switch from each stance to the next one and then to the next.

Once one has already learned all of the stances, he will be taught how to use them in doing forms. Along with the forms, he will also be adding a few hand movements to go along with that. From there, he will be practicing these forms in sequence.




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