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The purpose of this pilot study is to examine the effects of Tai Chi Quan, a body-mind harmony exercise, on college students' perceptions of their physical and mental health.

To summarize the evidence on the health benefits of tai chi.

This gentle form of exercise can help maintain strength, flexibility, and balance, and could be the perfect activity for the rest of your life.

Tai Chi is one of the best known martial arts of the Internal systems from ancient China. Based on Qigong and martial art techniques from thousands of years ago, Chen Wangting developed the Chen Style Tai Chi around 1670. It is characterised by contrasting and complimentary movements-slow and soft versus fast and hard. It contains explosive power and low stances.

Discover the Healing Power of Tai Chi

Movement therapy refers to a broad range of Eastern and Western movement approaches used to promote physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being.

The name change of a relatively small federal agency may not be news worthy for general public and the mass media, for people who practice Tai Chi and Qigong, however, this change has significant meanings. Why? This revision was mandated by the Congress as part of the omnibus budget measure signed by President Obama in December. The Congress changed the Center's name to more accurately reflect the Center's research commitment to studying promising health approaches that are already in use by the American public, including Tai Chi and Qigong.

The poor health consequences of stress are well recognized, and students in higher education may be at particular risk. Tai Chi integrates physical exercise with mindfulness techniques and seems well suited to relieve stress and related conditions.

Tai Chi has become more and more popular and is practiced among people from all over the world. The core of Tai Chi is to achieve harmony both physically and mentally.

Tai chi helps reduce stress and anxiety. And it also helps increase flexibility and balance.

What is tai chi, and where does it come from?

The 21st-century incarnation of tai chi refers to a series of distinct and standard movements designed to promote physical and psychological well-being and practiced by nearly 250 million people worldwide.

There are countless approaches to Movement Therapy™. Some approaches emphasize awareness and attention to inner sensations. Other approaches use movement as a form of psychotherapy, expressing and working through deep emotional issues. Some approaches emphasize alignment with gravity and specific movement sequences, while other approaches encourage spontaneous movement. Some approaches are primarily concerned with increasing the ease and efficiency of bodily movement. Other approaches address the reality of the body "as movement" instead of the body as only something that runs or walks through space.

The Trager Approach is the innovative approach to movement education, created and developed over a period of 65 years by Milton Trager, M.D.