I have a confession to make. Based on the science, for years I have been recommending Tai Chi to my patients without ever doing it myself. To avoid being a hypocrite any longer, I decided to attend my first ever…
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On a recent Thursday evening in August, a 40-year-old MMA gym owner in Beijing named Xu Xiaodong activated his VPN, hopped over the Chinese government’s internet firewall, and began his first-ever live YouTube broadcast. He wanted to talk about the…
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Long-term Tai Chi practitioners tend to have better emotional stability and more gray matter in important brain structures, according to new research that examined people who were between 60 and 70 years old. The study was published in Frontiers in…
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Using poor mechanics is easy — until you hurt. Body mechanics isn’t something you learn and are done with; it is the continual analysis of posture and technique. Even experienced massage therapists get tired and cheat, or we get focused…
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Stroke costs the country $5 billion a year through treatment and loss of productivity, affecting 56,000 Australians in 2017, equivalent to one stroke every nine minutes. A paper published in Future Neurology by researchers from Monash University, the University of…
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More than 20 people circled around, tapping near their eyes, hips and knees in an effort to access their body’s energy points. During the weekly “spring forest qigong” class at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Duluth, practitioner Glenn Tobey held…
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Master Ren Guang Yi, Lou Reed’s personal teacher for over 12 years, leads participants in a tai chi demonstration on the plaza of Brooklyn Public Library’s Central Branch, as part of the first annual International Lou Reed Tai Chi Day.…
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Tai Chi and Clare Meleady *About Tai Chi and how it helped you??* From doing tai chi I have noticed many things that have changed in my life and in my body and mind. The most important is that I…
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MORE THAN 200 people met at the University of Queensland’s Gatton Campus to get fit and have fun, and yet there was near total silence. That’s because the group came to experience Tai Chi, in all it’s silent glory. The…
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NEW YORK (JTA) — If you walked into Romemu Yeshiva on a weekday morning, you would be forgiven for thinking it’s an urban ashram. Students sit on cushions, in rows, on a faded Persian rug, backs erect, legs crossed, eyes…
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