TAI CHI
Breathing with Flowing Movement

Do you want to improve your health and unravel those stress knots?
How about improving your balance, poise, coordination and mental focus?
Well, Tai Chi practice may be for you!

Tai Chi is the practice of slow, whole body movements coordinated with
deep breathing to enhance physical and emotional well being.
Tai Chi offers a gentle exercise that relaxes the body and quiets the mind.

Ron’s teaching style is comfortable, warm and friendly. 
This form is the open, flowing Yang style - Han method.
 

Where:

         The Unity Church
         2610 Reservoir Road
         501- 225-2719
 

 

When:

 Monday evenings 
6:00 - 7:00 p.m.

 

Cost: 

$8/ class 
or 
$28/ month

 

What to Wear :
Come to class wearing flexible layered clothing you can move in and where breathing is comfortable.  Shoes are optional for the practice. 

What to expect: 
Anyone can begin to learn at any time.  No experience or talent is necessary.  Yawning and self-adjustments are encouraged.  The hour is a slow and easy practice with instruction coordinated with the breath.   
The Form is done slowly, deliberately, and smoothly with intention, attention, and relaxation. 

 

Here below is a link to just one description of some of the benefits of Tai Chi.  The more I read about it, the more I imagine how many people could improve their well being and lives through occasional practice.
About Tai Chi

Stress builds and can accumulate slowly gets us knotted up and can encourage or even cause dis-ease and many kinds of health problems.  We all know that some kind of regular breath-movement practice helps to make you healthier.  Tai Chi uses non-impact, restful, opening movements.  Breathing and circulation are increased and stresses are released.  I teach combining relaxed awareness and breath with the movements.  It is a great way of building health, strength, focus, and balance.    

About me:
After too many stresses, a great deal of computer and desk work, not enough exercise,  and accumulating birthdays, I began to encounter some health and agility issues that hadn't been there before.   I tried several physical therapies and they helped, but I did not want to become dependent on them.  Yoga is generally a healthy movement  exercise, so I started once a week at first, then twice a week, and now I generally  practice as often as I can.  Although I've been blessed with some really good teachers, I could never get the hang of a way to do a yoga practice at home or on my own.  And, since I love being outdoors, I wanted a practice I could also do outside somehow. 

In 2005, while volunteer teaching at the Hays Center in North Little Rock, I met Master Jeremy Fox and soon began learning a variation of the Yang style of Tai Chi called the Han method.  I really enjoy the practice itself and come away feeling healthier, more  balanced and grounded every time.  Practicing outside or in nature adds a new dimension.   Combining the form with breath awareness significantly improved the experience.  Practicing the form can sometimes be a moving meditation too, but the real payoff is being in the flow of the form.