Tai Chi and Qigong help you learn and develop new skills:

• Balance.
• Co-ordination.
• Cross lateral brain connectivity (left and right brain working together).
• Body and posture awareness (proprioception).
• Not relying on eye/vision to move the body.
• Suitable 'feeling' brain activities.
• Train body sensitivity/awareness/sensations to move the body.
• Spatial awareness.
• Slow, focused, deliberate movement in total control.

Tai Chi and Qigong for the physical body:

• Strengthens the muscles to move as a unit (not in isolation as with lifting weights).
• Increase range of motion safely.
• Lengthen and increase elasticity in the ligaments, tendons, sinews, fascia and soft tissue.
• Increase in flexibility.
• Lubricate joints through expansion/compression movement.
• Improved posture, especially the head and torso, can lead to instability as the weight bears forwards daily.
• Learn how to appropriately align the posture to carry the body's weight in stillness and movement safely.
• Reduces muscular tension, which causes rigid, awkward and unsteady movements.
• Movements come from the centre of gravity.
• Continual weight shifting onto each leg from 0% to 100% weight-bearing.
• Movements are grounded, not up-rooted. The centre of gravity is lowered through training.
• Safe knee movement to encourage non-load-bearing on the knees.
• Greater use of the hip/pelvis to move the body.
• Correct diaphragm breathing techniques aid all body systems to function better (including clarity, focus, alertness and combating fatigue).