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The 5 Root Powers of Tai Chi

Having self-awareness of where ones center of gravity is located during any activity, is a key component to maintaining physical or vestibular balance. A way to prevent injuries due to losing balance and falling, is to practice exercises which challenge the individual’s ability to adjust the weight distribution and body stability. Exercises from kung fu, and specifically tai chi offer this type of exercises.

The fundamental practices of Tai Chi are based upon 13 postures. These 13 postures consist of 8 forces, or “expressions of energy”, and 5 steps, root powers or “directions of movement” as follows:
Jin – Advance forward
Tui – Retreat back
Gu – Gaze/Step left
Pan – Gaze/Step right
Ding – Center-Fixed

5 Root Powers

Continuous movement of the toes, ankles and calf muscles helps to pump more blood flow to the lower body, Additionally, this deliberate movement stimulates the nerve ending and energy meridians which exist in the tips of the toes and fingers.

Jing Well Points

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pH Balance & Effects

pH-diet-issues
You are what you eat, think and how you move (or don’t) move your body. If your diet is mostly acidic foods, your organs and all systems adjust. An acid based diet is a cause of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, and many more issues.
Shallow breathing, from stress and aging also allows for more carbon dioxide in the blood, which again is acidic to the blood and organs. Deeper breathing brings more oxygen into the blood stream making the blood more alkaline.
Exercises from tai chi, yoga, qigong, meditation, and others all help to bring more oxygen into the lungs to help balance the pH balance of the blood stream.
Be well and breathe deeper!

Jim Moltzan

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Increase the Capacity of Your Nervous System!

Increase the Capacity of Your Nervous System!

By holding the body in specific alignments, the nervous system is strengthened to endure more pain, stress and discomfort. Think of tempering steel in fire to strengthen the metal.

When engaging the muscles, tendons, bones and fascia, the 12 regular energy meridians are engaged plus the 8 extraordinary meridians are opened and filled as reservoirs to adjust the ebb and flow of energy throughout the body and thereby strengthening the immune system among other bodily functions.

Exercise methods like these have been known for centuries, but are considered new or “alternative” to modern western culture.

Learn how this all works from private, small or group instruction.

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Breathing Deeper – more than just more oxygen!

Breathing Deeper – more than just more oxygen

Learning how to regulate the breath is truly one of the key components to maintaining good health and well-being. Most people do not regulate their breath or even think about it, until a health issue presents itself.

Breathing shallow helps the body to produce cortisol and adrenaline.

Breathing deeper helps the body to produce dopamine, oxytocin, seratonine and endorphines.

Controlling how you breathe can affect your emotions.

Emotions cause the brain to adjust and affect the body’s blood chemistry.

The blood chemistry directly affects the internal organs and consequently all of the bodily systems and functions.

Watch my online instruction to get a better understanding on how and why to breathe deeper.

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Moving Breathing Exercises (qigong) 8 Pieces of Brocade

Moving Breathing Exercises (qigong) 8 Pieces of Brocade
Eight Pieces of Brocade or 8 Sections of Silk, is said to have been composed sometime during the Southern Sung Dynasty of the 12th century by the famous Chinese general, Yueh Fei. Yueh Fei was also known to have created Hsing I, an internal style of martial arts.
The purpose of these exercises was to engage the mind and body in order to balance and strengthen the body’s vital functions, as well as purge stagnant energy and toxins from the body. If practiced as simple physical exercises, one can loosen their muscles, improve posture, increase blood circulation, and relax the body as well as the mind.
8 Pieces of Brocade-2up
I offer these graphics as a way to help remember or study the content that I teach.  It is almost always better to learn in person, but these are great teaching aides.
These are just a few of the exercises I teach in my follow-along and private classes. Group classes have resumed and ongoing for Mondays & Fridays at 11:30am-12:30pm at the Winter Park Presbyterian Church at 400 S. Lakemont Avenue in Winter Park, FL. Private or semi-private classes are held in Longwood (Wekiva), FL.
Be well and stay healthy!
Jim Moltzan