Tai Chi Sydney workshops for balance and harmony.
“Taiji is an internal style of Chinese martial arts based on the principles of relaxing, yielding, neutralising and issuing both in application and daily life” P.Kelly. Tai Chi classes and training has evolved over centuries to develop bodily harmony and bodily coordination, using slow soft and gentle movements coordinated by the body-mind and breath. Tendons, muscles, sinews and bones are strengthened by continuous circular movements.
Qigong
Qigong is referred to as “The Art and Science of Chinese Energy Healing” Literally it means working with the energy of life and is a remarkable ‘mind body’ healing method used in Chinese Culture over thousands of years. The focus being on self-care and self-awareness which help to maintain a balanced ‘qi’. Through breathing, movement, visualisation, meditation and relaxation exercises a gentle but vigorous program of qigong training enables the body to increase it’ s flow of energy.
What Qi is?
It is the principles relating to the refinement of qi which differ from person to person, with a variety of training exercises designed to suit personal life situations Qi is life energy which flows through all living things as well as nature. Gong is the work you put in. Dynamic qigong is exercise and is the most practiced method, passive qigong is tranquil and includes meditation, visualisation and precise breathing methods. Here the focus is on a clear and tranquil state of no-mind wih a deeper connection and harmony with nature. Qi training may include a wide range of exercises designed to boost or increase energy flow, regenerate, repair and rejuvenate bad, negative, lost or dissipated energy. Here the emphasis is on connection to the dao, to harmonise with nature and gain a clearer understanding of the universal qi. There are at least 7 major sources of qi:-breath qi (respiration); food qi (from your diet);original qi (inherited from parents); internal qi (emanates inside the body); external qi (qi emanating from outside the body); nutritive qi (flowing through the meridians); and protective qi (energy barrier against external pernicious influences and pathogens. Qi or chi energy circulation. Breathing, shaking, meditation, joint alignment, pressure, muscle changes, heat, light, love all contribute towards inner spiritual growth with an increase of energy resulting, a heightened sense of awareness with more focus on the here and now. Anger, resentment, fear, pain are alchemically transformed using the body-mind, mind-body, deep-mind, celestial, astral and etheric planes which govern most of who we are and who we think we are. These are three methods of building the body’s energy field: