 New
Orleans Tai Chi
TAI
CHI CHUAN
News:
Beginner Tai Chi Workshop starts this Saturday at 2pm!
First class free! Contact me to
reserve a slot in the workshop
Tai
Chi Ch'uan is an advanced martial art that was traditionally
taken up by kung fu masters in mid-life. It blends close-range
self-defense techniques for unbalancing an attacker with deep
breathing, slow, flowing exercises for lower body and core
strength & joint mobility, and meditative concentration.
Though tai chi is practiced slowly, tai chi masters are renowned
for their blinding speed in application, as the muscles are
trained under conditions of deep relaxation and focus.
Tai
Chi was created for fighting. However, the same things that
make it a deadly self-defense system make it appealing to
today's health and fitness conscious person. While some might
add some benefits or alter their order of importance, nobody
could argue with the following attributes being part of the
Tai Chi adventure:
- Ability
to completely relax the musculature.
- Ability
to clear the mind and become acutely aware of your internal
and external environment.
- Achieving
a stong, balanced, stress- and tension- free posture
- Increasing
the unhindered flow of energy throughout the body, with
a systemic increase of blood flow.
- Defend
oneself with minimal use of effort by applying the concept
of accommodation (yin/yang)
 The
answer is clear: only the #5 attribute pertains solely to
martial arts. The other 4 goals of Tai Chi are desirable to
nearly everyone human alive. They were critical to martial
arts mastery 800 years ago and they are critical to LIFE mastery
now.
Shaolin-Do
offers the most comprehensive curriculum of internal martial
arts in New Orleans. Tai Chi is the best-known of the internal
arts, the yielding or soft style. The internal art of Pa
Kua Chang teaches to evade attacks through a fluid, circling
pattern of movements including steps designed to throw an
opponent simply by coiling and uncoiling the body. At a higher
level, the entire art of Hsing Ie Chuan (Fist of Will) teaches
the student to explode their internal power into every strike.
Meditation
exercises help students control their breathing, develop a
greater awareness of their body and encourage a calm and controlled
mental attitude. The internal arts require decades to master
and the constant addition of new material at the Shaolin-Do
school ensures that each student remains interested and challenged
for a lifetime. Like the famous yin/yang symbol, the balance
of these two unique strategies, SHAOLIN & TAI CHI, creates
a powerful force and well-rounded martial artist. (back
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We
recommend that students follow the traditional path of martial
arts study and start in the kung fu
program before learning tai chi. Studying kung fu will
give you a jump start on your physical fitness and self-defense
skills and provide you with the basic skills of a martial
arts practice before tackling the subtleties of the internal
systems.
Due
to the detailed nature of tai chi practice, we have recently
started accepting new internal students only through private
instruction, to give them a thorough basis in tai chi posture,
movement, breathing and mindfulness. Beginner students learn
the 24 posture tai chi form, the most popular tai chi form
in the world. Once a beginner has learned the entire 24 form
and has a grasp of the basics of tai chi, he or she may join
the intermediate/advanced tai chi class, or continue as a
private student to focus on his or her individual goals and
development. Contact us for more
information on tai chi instruction.
Receive
a free brochure with rates and schedule
Intermediate/Advanced
Tai Chi Class Schedule
Tues/Thurs 7:30-9pm
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