Tai  Chi By Master Mantak Chia

Tao Garden Health Spa & Resort

Just as the universe is an integrated whole, the body is an integrated whole with each part connected to and dependent on the other parts.

Yet as we become adults leading sedentary lives, we often forget to use all parts of our bodies. We depend on head and arms, using our spine, hips and legs only to get us from car to elevator, to swivel chair, where we can use our head and arms again. By restricting our movement, we forget how to move strongly lithely and efficiently.

When we forget how to live fully in our bodies, we overly restrict the way we move and eventually we forget who we really are. Through Daily Tai Chi practice, we can become as children again, without stiffness or tension. We can relearn to move freely and naturally with the whole body connected, both structurally and energetically. In this way, we mirror our connection to the larger whole, as part of the universe. Through Tai Chi we can become fully ourselves.

Tai Chi has nothing to do with the number of moves you learn or the different styles one knows, it is the quality of each movement that counts. Tai Chi forms taught at Tao Garden Health Resort are short and quite simple to learn. This gives for more time to work on the internal aspects (organs and energy) which drive the Tai Chi and drive life. We can discover, through Tai Chi, the mechanisms for connecting our internal with the external universe. For without this, there is no life.