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Chair Chi: Always Energised

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chair-chi-training-picI deliver a lot of Chair Chi sessions for both low care and high care residents in various aged care centres and nursing homes – sometimes as many as 9 sessions in a week.

And I do get tired at times running around to different locations and producing the energy required to make a session enjoyable and productive.

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Filed Under: Chair Chi Tagged With: agedcare, Chair Chi, low care and high care residents, Tai Chi

Tai Chi Tip #67

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Align your body against a wall to get a feel for correct standing posture alignment.

Filed Under: Tai Chi Tips Tagged With: alignment, Posture, Tai Chi

November: Push Hands in the Park

By Chris 2 Comments

Our last free Push Hands in the Park for the year.

Details

  • Sunday – November 24
  • 10.00 am – 12 noon
  • Fawkner Park – South Yarra (Armadale Road entrance), Melbourne, Australia
  • Friendly, non-competitive push hands (tui shou) practice and play for anyone – old, young, beginners, masters
  • Team up with someone and discuss what you’d like to do – and what you’d not like to do!
  • Ten minute exchanges timed by a bell – but you can rest as well!
  •  Learn, share and enjoy

All welcomed.

Filed Under: Push Hands Tagged With: Push Hands, Tai Chi, Training

Tai Chi: Standing Forever

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I really should use my mobile phone stop watch instead of my small, old, electronic kitchen clock when I’m training.

This morning I got up early as usual to practice my embrace the tree posture, set my kitchen clock to count down from 20 minutes to zero. I pressed the start button and checked to see if it was working and stepped back into the posture.

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Filed Under: Reflections Tagged With: Chi Kung, Embrace the Tree posture, Tai Chi

Tai Chi: Better Late Than Never

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Just back from a four day holiday and it felt great to have time away from running workshops.

The week before the holiday began I ran 9 Chair Chi sessions for various aged care centre besides working on our BJ Seminars International business. It was so good to get away and relax.

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Filed Under: For Beginners Tagged With: embrace the tree, stance, Tai Chi training

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WHAT OTHERS HAVE SAID

SPORTS CHI
“An excellent interactive workshop. Chris was informative and engaging providing useful connections to AFL skills.  I absolutely loved it!”
Anita – Football player

“(Chris) was fantastic by way of enthralling around 26 footballers aged between 15 and 19 for 90 minutes at Glen Waverley Hawks. Most impressive!”
Peter Nash
–Coach

CHAIR CHI
“Very positive comments from all the staff. It was terrific and so many staff members said how they slept soundly that night.”
Kathy Prince – Ringwood North Primary School

TAI CHI
“The Tai Chi form is beautiful and I have gained valuable relaxation and stretching techniques.”
Tess Searle – PA

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