Sunday, January 4, 2015

Learn Tai Chi Basics For Dummies

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.

The first stance that one will be learning in this art would be the horse stance. The horse stance is a very crucial stance in this art because it is the stance that one will be assuming most of the time while he is doing his forms. It is also the stance wherein one will be relaxed the most.

Now to do this pose, one has to first stand upright and spread his legs apart shoulder width with his hands relaxed. While he is standing, he should then inhale and then exhale while he is lowering himself and bending his legs. Now he should try to just assume that pose for a while and practice until his legs become so strong that he can stay in that position for quite a long time.

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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