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Pennsylvania Massage Therapy Schools - A kick start for a new Career
Massage therapy has been around us for quite a long time. However, massage therapy has gained great popularity through the recent years. The reason behind the huge increase in popularity of massage therapy is because of the medical benefits associated with the same. It's proven that massage therapy has great mental and physical health benefits. In this busy world, many people consider massage therapy as an opportunity to relax. With the increase in popularity of massage therapy, there are many massage therapy schools that have risen like mushrooms today.

Yoga clothing and its benefits for meditation
"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." - Carl Jung

Spirit Voyage offers yoga clothing for both men and women
The age old practice of yoga is considered as a blueprint to a healthy, spiritual and blissful life. The concept of Yoga originated in India some five thousand years back and since ages, yoga practice unites the mind, body and the spirit of the individual. Yoga helps an individual to attain an eternal divine insight. With yoga, the dormant potential energy lying within one's body is awakened which ultimately results in a spiritual and healthy well being of the individual.

How to Find a Tai Chi Instructor (Part 5)
Continued from 'how to find a Tai Chi Instructor (Part 4) 22Self Defense Applications - A Tai Chi teacher does not have to teach self defense to students who do not want it but any real teacher of Tai Chi who can impart the real knowledge of Tai Chi to others must have at least a basic understanding of how the movements are really applied and be able to demonstrate it

Westchester, New York Tai Chi Instructor to Present at International Tai Chi Symposium
Master Domingo Colon, a Tai Chi instructor from Bronxville in Westchester New York has been invited to give a presentation to an international gathering of Tai Chi teachers at a symposium designed to advance the knowledge and ability of Tai Chi teachers to work with individuals with special needs.

Tai Chi For Health (part 1 of 2)
Tai Chi health benefits are a bit of a mystery to most people in the Western world who have not been exposed to Tai Chi Also,Tai Chi health benefits have been mysticised (sp) quite a bit as a result

CorePower Yoga - New Chicago Yoga Studio Opening on Monday, September 15th
CorePower Yoga, known for its dynamic and accessible yoga and lifestyle programs, opens its first Chicago studio in the South Loop neighborhood September 15th. CorePower Yoga plans to open a second Chicago yoga studio in the Gold Coast neighborhood late October 2008. CorePower Yoga has 27 locations nationwide, including yoga studios in California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and Oregon.

CorePower Yoga - New Portland Southeast Yoga Studio Opening on Tuesday, July 1st
CorePower Yoga, known for its dynamic and accessible yoga and lifestyle programs, opens its second Portland-area studio July 1st. The original Portland studio is located in the Northwest neighborhood on NW Quimby. CorePower Yoga is growing fast and currently has 25 locations nationwide, including yoga studios in Colorado, Minnesota, Oregon, and California and soon in Illinois.

How To Find A Tai Chi Instructor (Part 1)
This article explains the bare minimum amount of knowledge that any beginning Tai Chi teacher, style, school or method of Tai Chi should know and be able to convey in order to teach Tai Chi Without this basic knowledge students will not be able to gain any of the real health, healing or energetic benefits of Tai Chi

The Five Faces Of Westner Yoga
Yoga pertains to an entire group of spiritual and physical practices that date back as far as 3300 BC in India, an era in which anthropologists have uncovered statues depicting figures in yoga-like postures. As you can imagine, yoga's influence on the Western world in general and here in the United States in particular, has taken place in a veritable blink-of-an-eye when you look at the whole history of yoga.

Tai Chi Chi Kung / Qi Gong

Tai Chi Chi Kung / Qi Gong by definition refers to Tai Chi energy work. In this post I will try to shed some light on what is meant by the Chi Kung / Qi Gong energy work aspect of the practice?

Tai Chi Chi Kung / Qi Gong is often taught as a set of moves separate from the Tai Chi sets. I have found that the vast majority of the time these other moves do not come with much of an explanation of why and how they are any different from the Tai Chi in the Tai Chi sets and that the moves by themselves do not impart any kind of ability different than what is already available in the Tai Chi sets.

So, what is Tai Chi Chi Kung / Qi Gong? First of all the Tai Chi moves are just Tai Chi choreography or moves until you begin to actually to practice the energetic aspects of the art. The real practice of Tai Chi is Chi Kung / Qi Gong. As soon as you start practicing the energetic aspects the Tai Chi so to speak then you are really practicing Tai Chi (probably with the moves) and not just the moves. At that same moment you are now practicing and or applying the Chi Kung / Qi Gong.

An obvious question at this point might be so what makes Tai Chi Chi Kung / Qi Gong? That is a very big question because the answer could and does fill books. I will try to shed some light on it here.

First of all in Tai Chi Chi Kung / Qi Gong are the physical structural alignments which are a necessity for the proper flow of energy through and around the body including through the acupuncture meridians of the body. This is part of the reason that so much emphasis gets put on the moves at the beginning of a students training and why it stays an important issue in training as one progresses. Incorrect and bad posture impedes and blocks energy flow so it is important to get it right. While you are learning and working on this you are not really performing Tai Chi yet but are simply learning something you need to understand to perform real Tai Chi.

One of the first things you learn in Tai Chi and that is a necessity in Tai Chi Chi Kung / Qi Gong is known as Sung which translates as relaxation both inside and out. Any tension in the body will impede or stop the flow of energy through the body. This can be structural tension (bad or improper positioning), physical tension (like holding tension in your shoulders or neck simply because you do not allow them to relax) or mental or emotional tension that is manifested in the body such as jaws clenched and a tight face when someone is having a bad day.

So, for proper Tai Chi and Tai Chi Chi Kung / Qi Gong you first need Sung relaxation and proper posture. Once you have these you can really perform Tai Chi and Tai Chi Chi Kung / Qi Gong.

The next step in solo Tai Chi practice is all Tai Chi Chi Kung / Qi Gong. You begin to work different aspects of energy within your Tai Chi both for fighting and for self defense purposes. There are approximately 36 different primary expressions of energy in Tai Chi. You use your mind to direct the internal movement and chi into an expression. That expression is known as Jing. Jing is an expression of Chi or energy hence it is energy work. A few jing expressions are well known and some are quite obscure.

to be continued...

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