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).
Tai Chi and Qigong 
