Enjoy tai chi and / or qigong as a regular part of your wellness. These moving arts are ancient and their benefits, many. Harvard Medical Newsletter touted 8 active ingredients when they studied tai chi they say works like a multi drug having a positive synergistic affect on human health and wellbeing producing a variety of good effects such as reducing falls in older people by improving muscular strength and coordination, better general function due to improved posture and alignment… The list goes on and includes benefits that promote longevity and are anticancer which as a health and wellness coach, I support. 8 active ingredients of this delicious nutritious moving wellness art form are listed below my current schedule. The key is in regularity as well…
Please join me on the fitness floor in any of the following opportunities through June:
Mindfulness in Motion at NCRD Gym 11am
Tuesday Tai Chi ~ flow ~ ~ ~
Thursday Qigong ~ Seasonal healing and silk reeling
Friday June 14 8:30am Tai chi flow ~ ~ ~
Rockaway Beach Community Center
2310 Highway 101N
(small building just past the High School)
Also, Join Juli Stratton on the beach for Tai Chi by the Sea 1st and 3rd Wednesdays in the mornings. You can find her post in Events here on BBQ.
8 active ingredients that make tai chi and qigong the multifaceted medicine they are:
1) Awareness
2) Intention
3) Structural Integration
4) Active relaxation
5) Strengthening and flexibility
6) Natural, freer breathing
7) Social support
8) Embodied spirituality
The above is according to Harvard Medical Schools tai chi study program. I know some teachers that say this is great to hear and hopefully gets more people in the door and on the floor. They also say, this practice is so ancient, why pick it apart? Just jump in the tao, play, train, enjoy the ride and the benefits!
Thank you for your time. I hope to see you soon.
~ Libby
Elizabeth Golden Seaver
Health & Wellness Coach / Reflexology
www.goldenkeywellness.abmp.com
971.977.0166
