Tai Chi Breathing

Calms the Mind

Exercises the Internal Organs

Increase Energy

The 5 Ways Tai Chi's Hand Expression & Breathing Help You!

Tai Chi Breathing Techniques improve your posture, strengthen the abdominal muscles, and exercise the internal organs. These Tai Chi breathing techniques lower your breathing to the abdomen to control your breathing, promote relaxation, and, when combined with special hand exercises, improve the sinews and ligaments.

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Abdominal Breathing

Breathing from the lower abdomen is called natural breathing. When you were born, you breathed from the lower abdomen. However, as we get older and stress comes into play, we tend to breathe in the upper chest. This causes tension in the chest and shoulders that can lead to stiff necks and backs.

Calms the Mind

Have you ever been mad? Of course! Has anyone ever told you to calm down by taking some deep breaths? Probably! Why does this action relax you? Deep breathing forces you to use the lower abdominal muscles. Once that happens, your body relaxes. When your body relaxes, so does your mind. Once you develop this lower breathing, you’ll learn to use your mind to control your body and relax at will.

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Strengthens the Muscles

As you learn the gentle breathing exercises of Tai Chi, you’ll gradually strengthen the core muscles and lower abdominal muscles. You have to teach yourself to use these muscles again to develop a low center of breathing. This low center of breathing helps with a low center of gravity and exercises the vital internal organs. Every time you breathe in and out correctly, it massages these internal organs, keeping them healthy.

Improves Relaxation

Breathing into the lower abdomen relieves tension in the shoulders, neck, and upper chest. Your body will begin to relax, and in fact, you’ll start to notice when it is tense. In every class, you’ll learn where these stress points are in your own body and learn to relax them with the proper breathing techniques. All the breathing techniques are coordinated with Tai Chi hand expression techniques. Hand expression increases relaxation by using tense muscles and moving them into a relaxed position.

Increases Energy

Breathing combined with relaxation boosts your energy. Stress causes you to breathe erratically, and you become tense and tired. I'm sure you've seen people who are stressed, and the first thing recommended for them is to breathe deeply to help them relax. By learning proper breathing techniques, you'll begin to have more energy, sleep better, and have much less stress. Like a golfer, if he is tense, he does not hit the ball as far. When he is relaxed in his swing, he'll hit the ball much farther.

Great for Stress

“It has been only six weeks since I have been studying the graceful, gentle and yet powerful martial arts of Tai Chi Chuan. I have already noticed a change in the way I feel, both physically and mentally, and I’m happy to report it’s been a good and positive change. I decided to study Tai Chi Chuan for fitness, self defense, and stress reduction. I have not been disappointed with my decision.”