Tai Chi for health & wellbeing
I had another two good Chair Chi sessions for residents at aged care centres yesterday.
In the first session one resident commented on her back pain and during the session we did a Chi exercise that helped reduce the pain. And in the second session another resident complained of shoulder pain and we did the same Chi exercise which also helped reduce the pain.
Unfortunately I won’t be there but here’s the details for the next Push Hands in the Park session.
Details
All welcomed.
Practice your self defence applications with your arms beside your body – not just in a 7 stars (on guard) position.
The last two photos of our recent Push Hands in the park session.
One of the areas I experimented in was to try and stay rooted while placing myself in a disadvantaged position. One of the fellows I was pushing hands with pushed my elbow upward which I allowed and he said, ‘your elbow should be down’.
I agreed with him and explained, ‘I’m experimenting’. He looked puzzled.
Usually I try and obey the Tai Chi principles and adopt the correct structure to reduce the chance of being pushed off balance (sometimes it works – sometimes it doesn’t).
But I read a Tai Chi book awhile ago which discussed the point of staying rooted when in a very poor position.
So I figured it was worth testing this theory out because there are going to be times when I’m out of position and I need to remain rooted so I can counter attack.
I’m still working on this theory and I’ll let you know if it works in about fifty years time 😉
I had a very enjoyable time last week running various Chair Chi sessions.
I did my usual aged care sessions for low care and high care residents and I also ran four sessions for a business organisation; participants included management, office staff and warehouse employees.