Meditation and mindfulness meditation isn’t just sitting cross-legged in a corner. You can incorporate physical movement into your mindfulness practice with Tai Chi Qi Gong, a form of gentle yet invigorating excersise that brings you extraordinary physical and mental health benefits.
Wellbeing in Body & Mind
Tai Chi and Qi Gong movements enhance physical and mental wellbeing as an essential part of your wellness and spiritual development routine.
Tai Chi Qi Gong is suitable for all ages, even and especially adults who want to practice a form of excersise that isn’t too strenuous but leaves you feeling revitalized and youthful.
What is Tai Chi Qi Gong?
The words “Chi” and “Qi” both mean the same thing: energy.
Tai Chi and Qi Gong are slightly different forms of movement and excersise that boost internal energy (Chi / Qi) flow and revitalize organs all over the body. Both forms of exersise are rooted in Chinese martial arts, which have been practiced for thousands of years as as a form of physical mindfulness meditation and wellness regime for all ages.
Qi Gong
Qi Gong is essentially an ancient wellness regime of gentle excersises and breathing techniques practiced by the Chinese for thousands of years to enhance vitality and longevity. The daily exercises are performed as a form of moving meditation that connects and balances the body and mind.
Tai Chi
Tai Chi is a form of martial art for self defense that is founded on Qi Gong and devloped by Shaolin monks and Chinese military leaders. These exercises focus on correctly positioning the feet, knees and spine as a crucial ingredinet to their effeciveness.
What are the Benefits of Tai Chi and Qi Gong?
Adopting a habit of regularly doing Tai Chi Qi Gong movements is lifechanging! Just a few minutes of Tai Chi Qi Gong excersise a day makes a massive difference to you overall wellbeing. You’ll feel Great in so many ways. Here are just a few of the benefits that come with regularly practicing these easy movements:
- Relieve stress
- Energize your body
- Clarify your mind
- Prevent mental illness
- Anti ageing
- Strengthen Muscles
- Sleep better
- Prevent disease
Connecting Mind & Body
Practicing these movements combined with proper breathing techniques works as a highly effective form of meditation and mindfulness practice because it focuses your mind on moving the body in specific motions, helping you practice balance in your body and calmness in the mind. With practice, the movements become familiar and you experience more flow of the chi energy throughout your body and at the same time, calming your thoughts.
Learn Tai Chi Qi Gong with Supawan Green
Watch the video below and follow along with Supawan Green as she takes you through 18 Tai Chi and Qi Gong movements as a way to practice the four foundations of mindfulness or to bring your mental self back home.
Group Tai Chi Qi Gong Session with Supawan Green
Supawan Green has been practicing Tai Chi Qi Gong and mindfulness meditation for more than 40 years. She holds holds group Tai Chi Qi Gong sessions during her mindfulness talks around the world and holds reguar sessions at her home town in the UK at the Thai temple in King’s Bromley and at the Innocent Perception Centre in Bangkok, Thailand.
Watch the video below of Supwan Green leading a group Tai Chi Qi Gong session in King’s Bromley.
More videos by Supawan Green
Watch more mindfullness lessons and demonstrations with Supawan Green on our Innocent Perception YouTube Channel.
Learn with Supawan Green
If you’d like to join one of the Tai Chi Qi Gong sessions with Supawan Green or would like to know when and where upcoming sessions will be held, get in touch with us using the form below and we’ll get back to you.