Taiji is a curing and health nurturing exercise and prevents various sicknesses in advance. This activity aids in relaxing both the body and the mind. It fits to practitioners independent of their age, sex and physical shape. No previous training in sports is necessary to start practicing taiji.
Chinese fighting arts are inseparably connected to the eastern culture. One part of it is the Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) where concepts like chi, meridians and the Yin/Yang principle play a central role. Chi refers to the internal energy, meridians are channels through which the chi in the human body flows. A certain inner organ is connected to each of these meridians. The person is healthy if the flow of chi in the meridians is normal and the chi level in the inner organs is in balance. Taiji is an exercise of the internal energy. It increases the chi level in the human body, improves the chi flow in the meridians and nurses the most important internal organs.
With this training, in addition to the relaxed mind and body and better health, you may also achieve a good physical shape and after reaching higher levels certain self defense skills as well. The results of taiji training become most clearly visible as stronger legs, improved body bearing and general well-being, flexibility and balance and relieved back and neck pain if any.
Practicing taiji in a group, frequently accompanied with the traditional taiji music is enjoyable and interesting. Everyone may practice it according to the premises of their own. Thus, quite unnoticed, taiji may become a new and a more healthy way of life.