太极拳班：

活动讯息 | Events n News   December 15, 2008 at 12:00 amDCSSA2009

Following the requests from many new friends at Duke University, I will conduct TAICHI courses for free every Monday, Wednesday & Friday at 4:30pm in Mcclendon Tower, 5th Floor Banquet Room. Hope we can improve our health together by practicing the physical, mental, and spiritual sport – TAICHI.

COACH:
Beibei Lu
12 years TAICHI practicing experience; Achieved the 4th Chinese WUSHU DUANWEI.

INTRODUCTION TO TAICHI:
TAICHI is a main division of the traditional Chinese martial art called ‘WUSHU’, which began from some 300 years ago in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties in China. It is an ancient exercise which embodies China’s most profound concepts and principles of health and movement.

TAICHI is practiced at a slow and even speed, and promotes relaxation, straight posture, and balance. In addition to improving all of our bodily functions and helping to prevent aging and disease, TAICHI movements calm the emotions and focus the mind, thus making an outstanding contribution to one’s health and well-being.
Being categorized as an internal martial art, its characteristics include relaxed grounded strength, opening and closing the body, a sense of connection throughout the body, and natural spiraling movements.
We believe that the art of Tai Chi Chuan is one of the greatest gifts that China has to share with the world and that, if practiced correctly, the potential benefits of this art are extensive. An article in the August 5, 2002 issue of Time magazine referred to Tai Chi Chuan as ‘the perfect exercise