T’ai Chi Practiced at the
Phoenix Taoist Center

T’ai Chi, in essence, is Taoist philosophy in motion. The solo form is geared to develop a person’s qi and central equilibrium, but also has the wonderful benefit of relieving stress and tension, preventing arthritis, and increasing the blood circulation for overall improvement and maintenance of your health.

The two-person exercises are considered a means of self-defense, but in reality they are more about teaching you “defense against your self.” Meaning, we get hurt when we are attacked or by our own mishaps because of our inability to react without bodily tension and mental fright.

From the practices of the T’ai Chi solo form and the two-person exercises a person can derive all the benefits of T’ai Chi.

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Testimonials for T’ai Chi Practice

"Practiced daily, T’ai Chi will bring you glowing health with the “flexibility of an infant” and renewed vitality. Once health is achieved, one can begin to approach the self-defense aspects as a vehicle for developing one’s spiritual and mental capacities. The development of intrinsic energy and equilibrium with an understanding of the individual postures can allow one to neutralize aggressive actions, as well as to counter-attack."

—Master T.T. Liang (1900 to 2002) ,
author of T’ai Chi Ch’uan for Health and Self-Defense.

T’ai Chi has been studied and highly recommended
by the Arthritis Foundation, ARRP, and the Diabetes Foundation.

"Tai Chi is the perfect exercise" since it "builds strength, agility, and best of all balance . . . Practitioners praise Tai Chi's spiritual and psychological benefits, but what attracted the attention of Western scientists lately is what Tai Chi does for the body. In many ways, researchers are just catching up to what tens of millions of people in China and Chinatowns around the rest of the world already know about Tai Chi."

—Time Magazine, August 5, 2002.

T’ai Chi could become that all important exercise factor that stands between you and health problems.

—Prevention Magazine

"An ancient Chinese form of exercise without sweat fascinates U.S. Therapists. It tones muscles, overcomes fatigue, and gives ‘that better feeling.’ "

—Newsweek

"It is comfortable, deeply pleasurable. It helps the figure and the skin. It can be done in a small space in ordinary clothes with or without music. T’ai Chi is good for the young, for the old."

—Vogue