“Like sunlight, Chungliang Huang’s delicate mix of wisdom and humor comes in discrete energy packets (‘quanta’) but gives continuous pleasure and nourishment.”
Fritjof Capra
Physicist, Systems Theorist & Deep Ecologist
Tai Ji is Joy and Happiness.
Learn to open yourself.
Tai Ji practice incorporates the ancient wisdom, poetic beauty and healing potential of Eastern practices and scholarly arts. Our intention is to support everyone in enjoying healthier, more creative, and productive ways of living. People of all ages, backgrounds and experience levels come together from around the world to study with Master Huang, one of the most original and dynamic Tai Ji teachers of today.
Tai ji helps you to be you and to let that sense of wonder and development and constant joy of changing happen within!
Stretch your arms…Open your legs…Open your eyes, your throat.
Breathe.
Open your chest, your gut, your pelvis.
Open your Dantian.
Open your heart and your mind.
Relax and breath.
You will find your horizons expanding, your vision improving. . .
Enjoy this open-arm, open-mind, open-heart position.
The essence of the Living Tao Tai Ji practice connects students with their own sense of potential growth—the creative process of just being themselves!
The Rewards of Practice
- Tai Ji frees the body and helps with relaxation and overall circulation. It activates the muscles and joints in the body. It strengthens physical power without stress.
- It maintains youth and aliveness and slows down the ageing process through rejuvenation.
- Tai Ji calms and collects. It clears and sharpens the mind to help focus and center daily activities.
- When the body and mind move harmoniously together, the human spirit soars.
- Tai Ji helps to balance the conflict of duality, as mind and body polarize and unite. It reinforces soft approaches to otherwise hard living.
- Tai Ji promotes a welcome meeting of the East and the West and reaffirms the importance of global awareness.
- Tai Ji for the individual is a microcosm of the world at large. Through our personal experience of Tai JI, we begin to understand the macrocosm of the universe.
- The ultimate benefit of Tai Ji is to experience Living in a healthful and wide-awake state of being.
- The practice will endure, and its benefits will sustain you!
From Essential Tai Ji by Chungliang Al Huang with Photographs by Si Chi Ko.