I organize a beginners tai chi in the park class for our community and to force myself to go. Because I am totally dyslexic, it is very difficult for me to memorize the movements. This Harvard class has helped to coordinate hands and feet . . . . rewind, rewind, rewind until feet and legs go botht in the right direction. I have been drawing a L and an R on the back of my hands and pasting a label with L and R on the top of my shoes to peep before moving. I am sure tai chil will improve not only my health but also my dyslexia.
14 to 2. Yoga to Tai Chi videos. Can you please create more? There is so much more, maybe create videos on your book “The Harvard Medical School Guide to Tai Chi”. Would be nice.
It’s funny how younger people love to categorize things in neat little slots. “This exercises for old people, this exercise is for young people etc.“ The fact is this practice is good for you if you are HUM AN. All humans encounter stress anxiety stiffness and soreness in their bodies time after time. This movement practice is thousands of years old and has proven to alleviateAll kinds of mental and physical pain and discomfort. It’s true a lot of elderly people Practicing it, but those who have come to appreciate it when they were younger and grown with it no the tremendous benefits of it to compliment not only their martial arts skills but their daily living
@@TheSubwaysurferWell, it seems like different health organizations like using "slots" too, so that if a person were planning activities for a group of elderly people, then the exercises could be judged for suitability. Truth is, this Tai Chi teaching is very popular with elderly people because it is focused on relaxation and being "gentle", while at the same time the movements are simplified and made to be "enjoyed". That's probably informed by targeting the elderly as much as it is the lineage which it comes from, which is probably the fairly not-ancient Cheng Man Ching style, or at least the also-not-ancient larger frame Yang Style. "Young people", being full of energy and wanting to take advantage of that, may want something more stimulating, interesting, or intense. There are different styles of Tai Chi, and different ways of teaching it, which may better satisfy that need.
This video training had potential...very technical in teaching the movements. Unfortunately, typical of a Western scientific/academic interpretation of a holistic Eastern art, it suffers from almost completely ignoring the absolutely essential coordination of the breathing and chi with the movement. This would be the most basic teaching, just imitating the movements. But learning the breathing while moving, from the beginning, is how it has been traditionally taught for 1000s of years. Disappointing from Harvard.
The videos were designed to supplement a much more detailed publication that does go into detail about the methods and importance of breath control and provides written instructions for each of these movements. These videos were not meant to stand alone as a teaching method, although they can be useful beyond the original program.
Read the results of the research Harvard University of Medicine done on tai chi. They discovered finally the cause of the CHI so maligned by some religious leaders, and how this "chi" heals the organs and the brain itself (neurplasticity) due to the oxygenation in the blood flow to the brain.
Thank you very much for doing this. For me, this may be the first moments of establishing a practice.
Love this class and how wonderful you’re teaching is clear. My body feels great !
Thank you
I organize a beginners tai chi in the park class for our community and to force myself to go. Because I am totally dyslexic, it is very difficult for me to memorize the movements. This Harvard class has helped to coordinate hands and feet . . . . rewind, rewind, rewind until feet and legs go botht in the right direction. I have been drawing a L and an R on the back of my hands and pasting a label with L and R on the top of my shoes to peep before moving. I am sure tai chil will improve not only my health but also my dyslexia.
Fantastico. Extremely well done video and very good description.Thanks
Superb instruction . Thank you.
14 to 2. Yoga to Tai Chi videos. Can you please create more? There is so much more, maybe create videos on your book
“The Harvard Medical School Guide to Tai Chi”. Would be nice.
awesome video. Thank you.
Good bacis workout!
Is this Yang style? Is there a book to get? Thanks
Is this an activity for old people like over 65?
It’s funny how younger people love to categorize things in neat little slots. “This exercises for old people, this exercise is for young people etc.“ The fact is this practice is good for you if you are HUM AN. All humans encounter stress anxiety stiffness and soreness in their bodies time after time. This movement practice is thousands of years old and has proven to alleviateAll kinds of mental and physical pain and discomfort. It’s true a lot of elderly people Practicing it, but those who have come to appreciate it when they were younger and grown with it no the tremendous benefits of it to compliment not only their martial arts skills but their daily living
@@TheSubwaysurferWell, it seems like different health organizations like using "slots" too, so that if a person were planning activities for a group of elderly people, then the exercises could be judged for suitability. Truth is, this Tai Chi teaching is very popular with elderly people because it is focused on relaxation and being "gentle", while at the same time the movements are simplified and made to be "enjoyed". That's probably informed by targeting the elderly as much as it is the lineage which it comes from, which is probably the fairly not-ancient Cheng Man Ching style, or at least the also-not-ancient larger frame Yang Style.
"Young people", being full of energy and wanting to take advantage of that, may want something more stimulating, interesting, or intense. There are different styles of Tai Chi, and different ways of teaching it, which may better satisfy that need.
had to watch this for gym
You know if you sped this up, we could watch it faster.
This would be contradicting the essence of Tai Chi. Maybe watch a segment then practice how you like. That maybe a good beginning.
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This video training had potential...very technical in teaching the movements. Unfortunately, typical of a Western scientific/academic interpretation of a holistic Eastern art, it suffers from almost completely ignoring the absolutely essential coordination of the breathing and chi with the movement. This would be the most basic teaching, just imitating the movements. But learning the breathing while moving, from the beginning, is how it has been traditionally taught for 1000s of years. Disappointing from Harvard.
The videos were designed to supplement a much more detailed publication that does go into detail about the methods and importance of breath control and provides written instructions for each of these movements. These videos were not meant to stand alone as a teaching method, although they can be useful beyond the original program.
Read the results of the research Harvard University of Medicine done on tai chi. They discovered finally the cause of the CHI so maligned by some religious leaders, and how this "chi" heals the organs and the brain itself (neurplasticity) due to the oxygenation in the blood flow to the brain.