Chinese Tea and Tai Chi foundations

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Join Shunyu Huang for Chinese Tea and Tai Chi Foundations at Dragon Phoenix! In this Taichi foundation class, we start with sitting together to share tea. Chinese tea is good to help settle our Qi 氣. Next we do Standing Pose or Zhan Zhuang 站樁, a fundamental exercise that helps to improve posture in Taichi, and to ensure the sinking of Qi to DanTian. Creating good alignment in our posture helps to alleviate knee and back pain, and is a requirement for good Tai Chi. Chen Style Tai Chi emphasizes the importance of Standing Pose in its teachings and is an important practice for developing Tai Chi skill. After Standing Pose we do Silk Reeling Exercises (Spiral Energy), and break down movements. Moving and twisting from the DanTian from Silk Reeling Exercises help with sensing the spiraling power in Tai Chi. These two fundamental practices help us understand how to be soft yet still have strength in our movements. We will end the class sitting with tea again. This is a class for all ages and all levels. No experience is needed.