SEVEN MOUNTAINS TAI CHI Wu-Tang Arts of Centre County

LIFE NOURISHING TAI CHI CLASSES

AT SEVEN MOUNTAINS TAI CHI

Life Nourishing Tai Chi is our wellness tai chi program, and entry point for all of our traditional taijiquan students as well. This program focuses on all the main skills of tai body mechanics and wellness, while avoiding learning excessive technique lists and memorizing long forms. The goal is the use a physical therapy approach to rebuilt our connection between of mind, effort, and body. And in turn, the consistent practice heals most ailments, and improves most all body-mechanic limitations. This program implements:

1. Warmup with Self-Massage
2. Joint Nourishing Exercises
3. Swinging Exercises for Removing Tension
4. Leg & Squatting Development
5. Coordination of Breath and Body
6. Walking Meditation
7. Qigong Exercises for Breathing and Body Alignment
8. 15-20min. Tai Chi form practice
9. Cooldown with Self-Massage

Our Life Nourishing Tai Chi class is for those that have completed the Tai Chi Intro Course and received their Level 1 Certificates. Upon completion, this group class will be available at various times throughout the week for different levels of training.

The Level 1-4 Group Practice is approximately 50 minutes for Level 1 students, and then students with Level 2+ certificates will stay and work on their next level material. This pattern will continue for all 4 levels.

When the class schedule only states specific levels at a particular time, only those levels of material will be covered in that course, but all are welcome that have completed those intro programs.

Those enrolled in our Life Nourishing Tai Chi Path will also be encouraged to attend our Intro Course classes. These are different 1-hour, bi-weekly, 6-week programs for each of the levels, that rotate based on student interest and readiness.

These INTRO COURSE classes are at no additional cost.