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12
MAR
2020

The return of all about you…

clare harker, health, new years resolution, slipped disc, Tai Chi Health

Here’s a word or two from Claire Barker about her Tai Chi experience. I took up Tai Chi in January 2018 as one of my New Year resolutions. Two years on I am still learning and improving and most important all enjoying myself. I suffered a slipped disc in my…

20
FEB
2020

Beginners Tai Chi: Is it time to start a new hobby?

Steve

Blog, Tai Chi Health

With benefits for physical and mental health, tai chi has the potential to change your life for the better. Various studies have shown that tai chi can extend your life, improve your mood and reduce the symptoms of anxiety and depression. Tai chi has been shown to improve sleep quality…

11
SEP
2019

My Tai Chi Chuan Journey – Part Three

Malcolm Robinson

tai chi journey

Blog, Guest Posts

I'll start with a quote: “You become what you practice. Practice becoming healthy and you will become healthy. Practice becoming relaxed and you will become relaxed. Practice letting go of negative habits and they will increasingly dissolve and…

07
SEP
2019

My Tai Chi Chuan Journey – Part Two

Malcolm Robinson

tai chi journey

Blog, Guest Posts

Those who read it may remember that Part One of my tale was originally published in the Jan/Feb 2016 issue of Central Tai Chi's newsletter. At that time I didn't envisage a Part Two but such a lot has happened to me since I started Tai Chi classes with Steve…

28
AUG
2019

My Tai Chi Journey – Part One

Malcolm Robinson

tai chi journey

Blog, Guest Posts

I started Tai Chi classes with Steve and Fleur at their Thursday afternoon session in Sutton Coldfield, in October 2014. But that isn’t really where my story begins. It really began back in 1981 when I came across an advert for a local Tai Chi demonstration, in Sutton. I…

28
JUL
2019

How Healthy Is Tai Chi?

Malcolm Robinson

health

Blog, Guest Posts

“Every day think, as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it'.Fourteenth Dalai Lama Someone somewhere has calculated that 70% of people around the world who practise Tai Chi are doing so for health reasons,…

26
JUL
2019

How Healthy Is Tai Chi? Part Three

Malcolm Robinson

Tai Chi Health

Blog, Guest Posts

"I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving” OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES PART THREE – IS IT HARMFUL? So. Instead of starting this article off by, once again, extolling the virtues of Tai Chi let's consider why…

25
JUL
2019

How Healthy Is Tai Chi? Part Two

Malcolm Robinson

ARTHRITIS

Blog, Guest Posts

When asked by a student "What is the most important reason to study Tai Chi Chuan?" Master Cheng Man Ching replied "The most important reason is that when you finally reach the place where you understand what life is about, you'll have the health to enjoy it". PART TWO –…

24
JUL
2019

Bad Form at the Zoo

Malcolm Robinson

Guest Posts, Blog

The following monologue has been inspired by “The Lion and Albert”, written by Marriott Edgar in the 1930’s and made famous by Stanley Holloway with his acquired Northern accent. There are more than 30 references to the Tai Chi form in here. Can you find them? Try reading it with…

29
APR
2019

Head and Neck Posture in Tai Chi and Everyday Life

Malcolm Robinson

health, posture matter

Blog, Guest Posts

The first of: YANG'S TEN ESSENTIALS OF TAI CHI by Yang Cheng-fu (1883 – 1936) Head upright to let the shen [spirit of vitality] rise to the top of the head. Don't use li [external strength], or the neck will be stiff and the ch'i [vital life energy] and blood…