"Life can be challenging on many levels and it is my goal to offer tools for focusing, refining, and anchoring in the higher vibration that comes with transformation. Keeping one’s balance, especially during deep change, is challenging ~ and essential ~ and we are ALWAYS & in ALL WAYS changing."

~Carol Clark

Tai Chi & QiGong: Ancient Gifts

for Modern Times

Tai Chi is practiced as a soft, slow, and graceful Chinese form of body movement, and is an internal Martial Art. The practice of Tai Chi and QiGong (the inner structure of Tai Chi) creates a deep and powerfully healing state of meditation (the inner structure of QiGong) allowing it to become a tool for personal and spiritual development, transformation, and expansion. Continuous practice will improve overall quality of life and health.

Originating in ancient China, Tai Chi has long been noted for its great healing and therapeutic value. It consists of a sequence of movements which is practiced very slowly, smoothly, and with concentration. For this reason it has also been called a “moving meditation”.

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."

-Laozi

"If you practice Tai Chi correctly, you will be doing QiGong."

These gentle movements relax the mind and body, help digestion, quiet the nervous system, benefit the heart and blood circulation, make joints loose, refresh the skin, tone the muscles, strengthen the spine, organs, and brain, and improve overall quality of life and health.

How is it that these seemingly effortless movements produce such a dramatic effect on our health? Tai Chi practice is that like a child at play whose body is supple and relaxed with complete focus on the activity, everything is with great ease. In contrast, adults and older people begin to have difficulty moving, becoming stiff, tense, and everything requires a great deal of effort.

What actually causes such change over time is the hindrance of natural energy flow, called chi, through the body. Physical and mental stress and tension, unless transformed and released will create dis-ease in the mind and consequently in the body.

The practice of these movements improves the circulation of “chi”, the vital life energy, along certain pathways/meridians inside the body. These pathways help direct the chi or, prana, warm current, or kundalini power to successively higher power centers or chakras of the body.

Chi is the continuous flow of energy surrounding and binding the cells of the entire bodies into a unified whole ~ the person. It is absorbed through and exchanged with nature linking us to our environment.

Chi has two elements, yin cooling energy and yang warming energy. When yin and yang are blended and well balanced, chi flows more freely and there is an experience of clarity, self-empowerment, and over-all health and well being.