Comments on: Tai Chi – World’s Best Low Impact Exercise ?

By: Connie Stern

Connie Stern — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 23:48:02 +0000

I’m a 60 years old woman, who learned this many years ago, but like so many things, I didn’t practice it. Lately, over six month or more, I’ve had this constant pain on my back, upper left shoulder area. At first I thought is was just from stress. I’ve been unemployed for a long time and haven’t had much luck in my job search. So anyway, I remembered thinking what it said on the flyer with the many different names of the movesments. “It’s a Moving Meditation” So I started do these exercises again. Even though my back pain is still there, it hasn’t been as bad. I was just wondering whether they could be compared to some of the other work outs where you are targetting certain parts of the body, like your gutt. That my biggest problem. Since I had a C-Section back in my 40s, my stomach muscles have never been the same.

By: wreford

wreford — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 09:31:58 +0000

my first sortie onto this site – great descriptions! I am keen to try, being well over 65 but am having difficulty finding a teacher in this area – TN37 7QF or TN33 OAH. Wreford

By: Bruce

Bruce — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 20:24:01 +0000

There are lots of I Ching books and I don’t read many of them. I prefer not to comment because I am not a translator. I know what is in the I Ching but not what is all of the books.

I have been told the best academic translation is this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Original-Ching-Oracle-Complete-Concordance/dp/1905857055/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&qid=1291407767&sr=8-16

Stay good,
Bruce

By: Bruce

Bruce — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 20:19:48 +0000

The first place I would look for is that the pumping of your Kwa and the way you get the sense of your fingers and your feet the sense of that. I don’t know if you have studied with me but we teach that all the time. Without seeing you I don’t know that I can be of help as it could be many things. There are three people in the UK that might be able to help you Brian Cooper in Brighton, Paul Cavel in London and Mathew Brewer – depending on your location.

Personally you would probably get a lot out of the instructor training next year.

Stay good,
Bruce

By: Ray Jones

Ray Jones — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 15:44:11 +0000

I’ve been doing Wu style Tai Chi for over 20 years now but the last few years my feet and hands are getting very cold in winter — suggesting that my circulation is getting worse. Any ideas?
Best wishes
Ray

By: Daphne Chaplin

Daphne Chaplin — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 19:37:09 +0000

I have been practicing Tai Chi for 13 Years. I am now 75 years old. Two years ago I slipped and broke my ankle in 2 places. Within a couple of months I was back not only to my Tai Chi class but, practicing Tai Chi on a daily basis. I feel that if I had never taken up Tai Chi, I could have been left with either arthritus or a limp. Maybe both.

By: John D. Watson

John D. Watson — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 03:31:07 +0000

You are awesome…wish I could have studied with you ten years ago…

By: Shmuel Shalem

Shmuel Shalem — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 06:25:11 +0000

I am practicing TaiChi daily for 10 years, continue to learn it, feels like I am only at the beginning – and its a wonderful feeling and thinking.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:19:24 +0000

Diet ! One of the greatest things I have ever found in book form in my life is Spiritual Nutrition by Gabriel Cousens M.D. It explains in the greatest of detail how to prepare our bodies to handle higher more refined chi/prana/holy spirit so that our ability to change ourselves physically and spiritual at our deepest levels becomes wholey available . Genetics are NOT static . My thought would be figure out how clean your physical body is . Unless you are super organic raw foodist man the inside of your body has alot of badness (god bless the industrial revolution) heavy metals,GMOs,PCBs, etc etc . This robs your body of energy,chi,prana,HS . It takes a huge amount of energy to deal with these things and keeping you at your lowest genetic potential (PHENOTYPIC EXPRESION) . By the way I have way too much badness in me so I aint preachin but i have in my most disciplined times combined strong practice with proper fasting emphasis on proper and filling my body with foods and herbs of superior quality . The difference is beyond night an day . Its like pointin everything in the same direction ya know ? Good luck !

By: Craig Davis

Craig Davis — Sun, 23 May 2010 06:46:04 +0000

Because I genetically inherited poorer than average body alignments, I find that the repetition of simple movements in nei gung brings me more benefit than the relatively complex movements of tai chi. For this reason, I stopped practicing tai chi after several years of practicing every day. By practicing the components of Cloud Hands and Circling Hands, I have finally learned how to get blood to circulate through much of my lower legs and feet. I’ve also made progress with getting energy to move through my left channel, which tends to be blocked. Maybe I would have gotten to this point if I had continued with the tai chi form, but I believe it would have taken me much longer and the path would have been less direct. (I practice from 1 to 2 hours every day.)