Tai Chi for health & wellbeing
Here is an interesting short clip from The School of Life about Wu Wei, which is a key concept within Daoism.
In Chinese “Wu Wei” means “non-doing” or “doing nothing”. But it’s not an invitation to relax or, worse, become lazy or apathetic. 🙂 Instead, it’s referring to ‘effortless action’ or the ‘serene acceptance of events’.
So if you sometimes feel you’re swimming against the tide or struggling with your workload, this clip is worth watching.
A quote on leadership that I believe in.
Raise your arms up and out in front of your body until they are parallel to the ground. Now lower your arms to the sides of your body.
Repeat this eight times.
As you slowly move your arms up and down think of the phrase ‘hardly moving’ – this will help slow your movements.
Remember the slower you go the more you will feel the Chi flow.
Tai Chi Chuan is a health and self defence system.
There are various styles of Tai Chi and the major styles are Yang, Wu, Chen, Sun, Wu Hao, and all the styles comprise of five sections: The Hand Form – Push Hands – Chi Kung/Nei Kung – Self Defence – Weapons (sword, sabre, spear).
In this five part series I’ve selected one clip from each of the sections of Tai Chi to give you an appreciation of what they look like.
Part One – The Hand Forms selections are random, as there are a huge variety of Tai Chi examples on YouTube and they vary in techniques. I’ve selected samples of five of the major styles of Tai Chi
