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TAIJI

This ancient discipline was founded in China 2000 years ago and it was patiently elaborated and developed by an uninterrupted chain of masters who passed on its most original and pure spirit up to our days.

It works as an instrument balancing between different organic functions: it calms anxiety, it balances the nervous system, it favours concentration and helps blood circulation. It is successfully employed in Chinese hospitals as a method to recover ill people. Tai chi ch'uan practice consists of an actual ritual made up of movements inspired by nature and its multiple manifestations.

Movement fluidity in Tai chi ch'uan is symbolised by the flowing of river waters, its stability by the majesty of a mountain, its breathing by the wind blowing and penetrating everywhere. The names of several techniques highlight a clear reference to nature: moving hands as clouds, the white crane spreads wings, caressing the wild horse's mane, the white snake sticks its tongue out, etc.

The reliance upon one's own body and upon one's own breathing - which develops gradually through taiji practice - allows feeling little by little that there is no difference between our mind and our body. Our hands, our arms and our legs are part of us as our eyes and our feelings. There is so much talking about the union between body and mind that it risks being stuck at a verbal level; however, practising taiji results in perceiving that our body has hands, feet and legs that do feel, not only when in pain.

Perceiving the existence and relying upon one's won body allows feeling less alone and increases both self-confidence and self-esteem. Together with deep breathing and spirit awareness, the slow, harmonious and flexible movements can help the practitioner recover sensation, self-listening, self-perception, creativity, relaxation, inner calmness and feeling of united mind and body. In order to make the practitioner aware of his/her progresses, each technical component implies a response concerning one's inner organism.

For instance, by controlling the body weight on feet soles - thus lightening the heels - the posture leads to activate the kidneys - organs filtering human being's energy - and also increases the control over heart activity, which is never stressed in Taiji Quan practice. Once again, the posture allows the fundamental energy to flow along the spinal cord, as a result of the spine control; thus, such energy moves upwards, feeding hypophysis, the endocrine gland responsible for one's intuition and mental balance.

Muscle and tendon relaxation leads energy - at first converging and then spreading throughout the body - to flow in every direction, supplying blood circulation and the right balance between physical work and energy leakage. Finally, breathing - the basic element closest to the concept of Qi work - is the indispensable propellant for everything to move, to receive energy, to combine, to load and unload, influencing skin sensation, this latter being stimulated by the continuous body changing during the different work phases. Through practice, one develops the awareness of body-mind mutual dependence - the classics describe such success as the meditative state, heartbeats slow down, mind lights up and the human being enters real meditation. Practising taiji is a wonderful opportunity to do correct long life soft gymnastics in a long-lasting and healthy way.

It is a struggle against everyday life stress and it is a physical expression dedicated to oneself, that is to say, to one's own health and beauty and to one's own body support.

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