Tai Chi For Beginners with Gary Wragg - Part 1: The Fundamental Stances and the 12 Step Form Instruction

This video is set against a beautiful natural background while an instructor moves slowly through 5 different tai chi exercises. Tai chi improves leg strength, cardiovascular endurance, flexibility, immune system, sleep, happiness, sense of self-worth, and the ability to concentrate and multitask during cognitive tests. Amazing benefits from such a simple exercise! | Dwell Assist

Be honest: when you practice your tai chi form, how many times do you do the very first move—Commencing Form (Qǐ Shì 起势)? Once? Twice? Then on with the rest of the form? I often do the opposite. Often, I ONLY practice Commecing Form (also called Lifting Water). Not because I'm lazy—but because it's an incredibly powerful qigong pattern on its own. In my Qigong 301 program, we have an entire module dedicated to this. We take tai chi patterns like Commencing Form and Cloud Hands and turn them into

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