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WHAT IS TAI CHI?
Tai Chi is a Chinese martial art known for its slow fluid style and soothing movements. It's an internal Chinese martial art often practiced for health reasons. Tai chi is typically practiced for a variety of reasons: its soft martial techniques, demonstration competitions, health and longevity. Consequently, a multitude of training forms exist, both traditional and modern, which correspond to those aims.
Today, Tai Chi has spread worldwide and some of its training forms are familiar to Westerners as the slow motion routines that groups of people practice together every morning in parks around the world, particularly in China.
WHAT IS QI GONG?
Qi Gong refers to a wide variety of traditional cultivation practices that involve methods of accumulating, circulating, and working with Qi or energy within the body.
Qi Gong is sometimes mistakenly said to always involve movement and/or regulated breathing; in fact, use of special methods of focusing on particular energy centers in and around the body are common in the higher level or evolved forms of Qi Gong.
Qi Gong is practised for health maintenance purposes, as a therapeutic intervention, as a medical profession, a spiritual path and/or component of Chinese martial arts. |
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