Learn Tai Chi: Beginners Tips
In this section, you’ll find strategies and tips for:
• Learning tai chi for martial arts
• Learning tai chi for stress management
• Learning tai chi as a senior
Regardless of the reasons one has for practicing tai chi, everyone must go through the same struggle to simply learn the movements. This is the first step before one’s tai chi practice can deepen from empty, awkward movements to an energy-filled exercise and health tool.
Learning a series of movements can be frustrating. Here are some tips which will hopefully remove potential frustration and to make your process of learning the choreography of tai chi smoother and more enjoyable.
To gain the most from your tai chi workout in terms of health, focus on smooth and relaxed movements. These--and not rapid, jerky movements—are the best for energy flow and to avoid physically and energetically jolting your body.
Read more about tips to practice tai chi for health here.
To learn to fight well, one must practice specific fighting techniques. Approximating them, imagining them and getting the right energy flow just aren’t enough. One needs to devote time to both a solo practice as well as training with others.
Additional skills and training techniques must be mastered to gain skill as a tai chi martial artist. Read more about learning tai chi as a martial art here.
Tai chi not only returns your nervous system and mind to its normal, baseline state, it can also leave you calmer and less vulnerable when new stressful events arise. Read more about practicing tai chi for stress control and relaxation here.
Learning Tai Chi for Seniors. Tai chi is a low-impact exercise that appeals to many seniors. Its benefits as far as improving physical balance, blood circulation, and even sexual vitality have been well-documented. Tai chi has also been shown to regulate and to lower blood pressure and to promote a good night’s sleep. These, and many other benefits make tai chi especially attractive for seniors.
The benefits from tai chi are real and seniors can gain these through a regular and careful tai chi practice. Here are some specific suggestions for seniors beginning a tai chi practice.
Next: Read about learning tai chi movements.
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