Chris Chi

Tai Chi for health & wellbeing

 

 

  • Home
  • About Chris
  • Workshops & Programs
    • Sports Chi
    • Chair Chi
    • Workplace Tai Chi
    • Energizers for Conferences
    • Wellbeing
    • For Schools
      • Pozitive Kidz … are happy kidz
      • conneXions
      • Top Tens
      • Success & Resilience
  • Products
  • Blog
    • Blog Archives
  • Newsletters
    • Archives
    • Subscribe
  • Resources
    • Tai Chi and the Immune System
  • Contact Me
You are here: Home / Archives for For Beginners

Dog’s Breakfast Tai Chi

By Chris Leave a Comment

Hmm, I’ve just finished practicing my third Tai Chi session today: hands form and it was like a dog’s breakfast – scattered.

I felt calm before I started but for the some reason my Chi was scattered. I forgot bits of the form which I have practiced hundreds of times over the years.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: For Beginners, Forms Tagged With: Practice, Tai Chi form

Tai Chi: A Sense of Achievement

By Chris Leave a Comment

Six days a week I practice my ’embrace the tree’ posture for 20 minutes  and as soon as I finish I always feel I’ve achieved something worthwhile. From Monday to Friday I start practicing at 6.30am and on a Saturday, practice a bit later in the morning.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: For Beginners, Reflections Tagged With: embrace the tree, Tai Chi, Training

Tai Chi Relaxation: Scan and Breathe

By Chris Leave a Comment

Here’s a way of relaxing the body when you are practicing standing postures such as Embrace the Tree.

  1. Scan your entire body and check for any tense muscles
  2. If you discover a tense muscle direct your attention to it and then breathe into it and exhale
  3. As you exhale, feel the muscle completely relax

[Read more…]

Filed Under: For Beginners Tagged With: alignment, Breathing, Posture, relaxation, Tai Chi

Tiny Tai Chi

By Chris Leave a Comment

I was standing in line at a supermarket and decided to do some Tai Chi training while waiting to be served.

Obviously a weapons form was out of the question so I decided to do some tiny Tai Chi practice. I bent my knees slightly and adopted a standing posture. No one could see what I was doing as the posture was high and it looked like I was just standing there like the others in line.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Chi Kung, For Beginners Tagged With: Practice, Tai Chi

July: Push Hands in the Park

By Chris Leave a Comment

Here we go again, Push Hands in the Park:

  •     Sunday, 29 July
  •     10.00am-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

I hope to be there again so come along and join in on the fun.

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

  • « Previous Page
  • 1
  • …
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • …
  • 29
  • Next Page »

Good Chi News – Februrary Issue coming soon

Terms

Tai Chi Chuan
A health and self defence system.

Chi
The ‘intrinsic energy’ which circulates in all living things – Dr. Yang Jwing-Ming.

Chi Kung
….. specialises in building up the Chi circulation in the body for health and/or martial purposes – Dr. Yang Jwing-Ming.

Copyright © 2025 · Chris Bennett