Tai Chi (Taiji in Mandarin pinyin) is a Mind & Body exercise of Chinese origin. It is a beneficial pursuit in a variety of ways and is suitable for people of either gender and any age. Numerous research studies on Tai Chi (Taiji) in recent years have demonstrated the value and benefits of Tai Chi (Taiji) in many ways.
So how can Tai Chi (Taiji) help you?

Well, the following describes how Tai Chi (Taiji) can be of benefit:
Tai Chi can help your concentration, coordination and confidence

Tai Chi can help your Heart & Lungs work better

Tai Chi can improve your flexibility and increase muscle strength

Tai Chi can help your balance and reduce the risk of falls

Tai Chi can help to improve your immune system resulting in fewer colds and infections

Tai Chi can help to reduce and prevent osteoporosis, arthritis and back pain

Tai Chi can help to control diabetes
A slow moving, low impact exercise can do all this?
Yes, research on Tai Chi (Taiji) has positively shown these findings.
So why don't you become one of the many people of all ages that have benefited from involvement with Tai Chi (Taiji)?
Your first step in Tai Chi (Taiji) is your first step on a new and wonderful journey!

What Is Tai Chi (Taiji)?

Tai Chi (Taiji) is one of the most effective exercises for physical and mental well-being. It is characterised by fluid, gentle, graceful and circular movements that are relaxed and slow in tempo. The methods of Tai Chi (Taiji) actually help to integrate the mind and body into a harmonious inner and outer self. A person that lives in harmony with themselves and others is said to be more likely to be happy, fulfilled and healthy!

Tai Chi (Taiji) is from the Internal School of Martial Arts (however, nowadays emphasis is placed more on its health and well-being aspects than on its self-defence capabilities). Importance is placed on breathing, relaxation, mental application and improving or balancing the Internal Energy (Qi).

Styles of Tai Chi (Taiji)

Tai Chi (Taiji) is practiced in many styles. Each style has its own variations, often named after the person that varied the system and 'created' a new style. The hermit Taoist master Chang San Feng is attributed with the creation of Tai Chi (Taiji) in the 13th Century AD. The most popular styles Tai Chi (Taiji) practiced today include:

Yang Style Tai Chi - the most prevalent today. Yang Lu Chan was the first 'outsider' to learn Tai Chi from the Chen family. Most systems other than Chen Style can be linked to the teachings of Yang. Yang Cheng Fu (the grandson of Lu Chan) was the first to teach the'common' folk in Beijing in the first quarter of the last century and was therefore an instrumental player in popularising Tai Chi (Taiji) worldwide.
Chen Style Tai Chi - deemed to be the oldest recorded system, dating back to Chen Wang Ting (1600-1680).
Wu Style Tai Chi - of Wu Chien Quan. Wu learned from his father a student of Yang Lu Chan.
Wu Style Tai Chi - of Wu Yu Xiang. Wu learned directly from Yang Lu Chan and later varied his system with the influence of small frame Chen Style of Chen Qing Ping. This system passed through the Hao family and is also called Wu/Hao Taiji.
Sun Style Tai Chi - Sun Lu Tang learned Wu/Hao Style Tai Chi from Hao Wei Chen. Sun was a well respected master of two other Internal Martial Arts (Xingyiquan & Baguazhang) before studying Taijiquan and was able to blend the essence of these arts into his version of Tai Chi (Taiji).

Yi Li Fa Academy Teaches

The following Traditional Based Systems of Tai Chi are taught:

Yang Style 42 Forms Tai Chi (Cheng Man Ching's sequence)

Yang Style Long Tai Chi Form of Yang Cheng Fu

Sun Style Tai Chi in 8 sections

The Modified Sun Tai Chi Forms of Men Hui Feng

The Original Long Tai Chi Form of Sun Lu Tang