Sinking, Rooting and Expanding: Improve your Tai Chi and Qigong as well as develop good posture for everyday life. In this video, you will learn how to improve your Tai Chi and Qigong practice and improve your posture with a fundamental Chinese martial arts strategy of expanding into emptiness while allowing your weight to be sinking and rooting. Sifu Susan will teach you this essential aspect of Tai Chi which will help to improve your stance and balance, Qi, life energy flow, good posture and body mechanics while opening meridians throughout your body for Qi flow. This Chinese Martial Arts and Traditional Chinese Medicine concept can be practiced in your Qigong, Tai Chi chuan, Taiji, Tai Chi for Beginners or Advanced Tai Chi and in developing good body mechanics and good posture for everyday life.

Far too many Tai Chi Chuan practitioners create much too much heaviness in their Tai Chi stance, forms and weight shift. Overtime this can create damage to the knee and hip joints. Rather our Tai Chi should be as much full and heavy as it is empty and light. There is a balance just like the yin yang symbol. We are seeking a balance. However, we feel the heaviness and so our mind goes there. We need to create a better mind body connection, and place our Yi, our mental awareness, in the empty part of our body to counterbalance the feeling of gravity. When we do this, our Tai Chi becomes more light and floating rather than heavy and ponderous.

Expanding during our Tai Chi practice also helps to open our joints for Qi flow or the flow of life energy to create power and healing energy. It also helps us to develop good posture for every day life. This is not limited to physical expansion. This can be a form of healing meditation. This Tai chi and Qigong practice of expansion into the emptiness can apply to life, to confrontations, to stress, and give us a tangible strategy to reduce anxiety, manifest changes in our lives, improve our mental health, and even to enhance your spirituality to commune with the Holy Spirit. In fact the applications of the martial arts concept is limitless.

Tai Chi Chuan or Taiji or Tai Chi, and Qigong, Chi Kung, are all a kung fu practice. Tai Chi is considered among the martial arts as one of the most effective fighting mechanisms. But Tai Chi is many things, not just martial arts. Kung fu means a focused practice with high level skill. So Tai Chi can also be healing, bringing about health and wellness through the circulation of Qi, or life energy. Tai Chi is a mind, body and spirit practice and can be considered moving meditation. It improves balance, creates strength with less effort, teaches proper body mechanics and good posture. It is great for cross training, high level athletes and people with disabilities. It can decrease joint pain, relieve arthritis pain, and help with low back pain, neck pain. It also is a great way to calm down and relieve stress. Tai Chi heightens your mental health awareness, soothes your autonomic system, turns off the flight or fight response, and teaches you to deal with day to day stress in a more effective way.

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