BEST TAI CHI COURSES ONLINE
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Here at teapotmonk.com you can discover the world of Tai Chi in articles, interviews and introductory walk-throughs. All Tai Chi learning materials are hosted on my 21st Century Tai Chi training site where you will find a list of all courses, workshops and workouts for complete beginners, intermediates and those teaching Tai Chi.
BEST ONE-YEAR tai chi courses
The Complete range offers 2 courses focusing on forms (37 Step Short Form and 32 Step Sword Form) and 2 courses that offer a broader, more open approach to Tai Chi - the Tai Chi Health and Fitness Training - and the popular Complete Tai Chi year course.
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Learn the most interesting (and adaptable) of all the Tai Chi forms and one of the most popular for beginners throughout the world in this exciting online course taught over 12 months:
The Cheng Man-ch'ing 37 Step Tai Chi Short Form. Weekly classes sent to your inbox, with PDF instructions, over-head shots, gifs for repeated viewing angles, audio stories, histories and lots more.
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The incredibly beautiful 32 Step Tai Chi Sword Course.
Start as a beginner. Learn how to get a practice sword, your first moves and steps, how to hold the sword and then slowly, week by week - learn all the moves of the Sword Form.
Inspiring weekly classes that gradually build into the Complete 32 Step Tai Chi Sword Form.
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12 months of Tai Chi workshops on: Energy, Applications, Qigong Breathing, Postures, Structural exercises, Tai Chi History, Philosophy & Culture.
Filmed in the countries of Spain, Portugal and the United Kingdom.
Includes 12 ebooks, music, audio tracks and access to the Tai Chi Academy.
Overall best course for Tai Chi - without focusing exclusively on the form
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Already practising a martial art, Tai Chi or another activity and looking for supplementary training?
This unique course offer as way to dip your toes into Tai Chi, health and fitness without learning a new form or sequence.
Over 100 ten-minute workouts gathered together in topics ranging from qigong, meditative walks, tai chi drills and steps, to mini-forms, core workouts and more. Work at your own time and pace.
WHICH COURSE IS RIGHT FOR YOU?
Tai Chi is often taught as if it were a fixed routine that you should memorise and practice daily. But this approach emphasises a lot of memory and posture repetition. The Complete Tai Chi Course chooses a different path, placing equal emphasis on understanding, building balance, coordination and movement skills, as well as a dozen of the most important Tai Chi moves. It also covers history, qigong, taoism, popular culture and applications and comes with 12 ebooks (one for each section of the course)
Should you prefer the more traditionally taught sequences, then look at the 37 Step Short form. It teaches this classic form in a novel way, with video, audio and PDFs building the sequence into a thorough course backed up by history and context.
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MOVE: BREATHE: FOCUS
Back in 2007, during one sweltering, humid afternoon, this black and white video was shot in the old attic of a house in the middle of Andalusia, Spain. The film was shortlisted at a film festival in Madrid later that year and features clips from the 37 Step Cheng Man-ch'ing Tai Chi Form (with Dr Chi’s additional postures.)
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