Tai Chi
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  1. Practice and meditation

    Coordinating Hands and Feet in Tai Chi Without the Confusion

    Your feet know what to do until the arms join in? Learn to separate direction, support and timing within one manageable transition.

  2. Health and healthy ageing

    Tai Chi and Strength Training: How to Combine Them Sensibly

    Tai Chi does not have to compete with strength training. Learn how movement practice, resistance exercise and walking can share the work.

  3. Films, books and video

    Choosing a Tai Chi Video: Ten Signs of Useful Instruction

    Tell genuine instruction from an attractive performance with ten concrete checks and a practical comparison example.

  4. Health and healthy ageing

    Mobility and Flexibility: The Difference and What to Practise

    More range does not always mean better movement. Explore flexibility, active control and strength without chasing extreme positions.

  5. Practice and meditation

    Relaxation in Tai Chi: Releasing Tension Without Losing Support

    Relaxing does not mean switching off. Explore how to reduce unnecessary effort while preserving direction, support and attentive control of movement.

  6. Health and healthy ageing

    Walking Pace and the Talk Test: Finding a Manageable Intensity

    A conversation can help you judge how demanding a walk feels. Use this simple check without racing other people or blindly following your watch.

  7. History and culture

    Tai Chi and UNESCO: what the inscription means

    What the inscription safeguards—and what it does not claim.

  8. Health and healthy ageing

    VO₂ max: what the number measures—and does not

    A plain explanation of a fitness measure without health promises.

  9. History and culture

    Yang Luchan and Tai Chi’s Road to Beijing

    How did an art associated with Chenjiagou enter the social world of the Qing capital? Yang Luchan’s life is central to the history of Yang style and to understanding how stories about martial masters become legends.

  10. Health and healthy ageing

    Zone 2 training: what the term means

    A plain-language explanation of moderate intensity without chasing numbers or promises.

  11. Health and healthy ageing

    Active ageing: what supports independence and quality of life

    A practical view of active ageing through function, relationships and environment.

  12. Health and healthy ageing

    Biological age and epigenetic clocks: what they can measure today

    What biological age and epigenetic clocks measure — and what a result does not yet establish.

  13. Practice and meditation

    How to notice progress before you know the form by heart

    Progress in Tai Chi need not mean more memorised movements. It often begins with clearer attention to stepping, weight and your own pace.

  14. History and culture

    The Five Major Tai Chi Styles: Chen, Yang, Wu/Hao, Wu and Sun

    How Chen, Yang, Wu/Hao, Wu and Sun are historically connected, what distinguishes them and why a style name never describes the whole practice.

  15. Health and healthy ageing

    A sedentary lifestyle: how to break up long periods of sitting

    Practical, low-pressure ways to notice long sitting and add ordinary movement to a day without promises or rigid rules.

  16. History and culture

    Chenjiagou and the Chen Family: Beginnings of the Documented Tai Chi Tradition

    Chenjiagou is now called the birthplace of Tai Chi. Behind that simple phrase lies a long history of the Chen family, local martial culture, later manuscripts, historiographical disputes and modern heritage-making.

  17. Tai Chi basics

    Your first month of Tai Chi: realistic changes to notice

    The first month is usually about orientation in movement, not a finished form. Small repeatable observations are useful.

  18. Health and healthy ageing

    How much weekly activity do adults need?

    Official guidance combines aerobic activity, muscle strengthening and, in later life, balance. It does not all have to happen at once.

  19. Related practices

    Tai Chi or Pilates: two different approaches to movement

    Tai Chi and Pilates are not two versions of the same practice. They differ in body position, movement logic, equipment and learning format.

  20. Health and healthy ageing

    Vitality after 50: movement, sleep and habits without miracle claims

    Vitality is not a biological score or rejuvenation promise. It is the practical capacity to manage a day, move, recover and stay engaged with life.