Find Stability -Play Tai Chi

A recent discussion between Tai Chi teachers identified many common observations; a change in post pandemic private class attendance, limited public sector funding and a need to identify ways to share the positive contribution Tai Chi can make to both wider public health outcomes and personal wellbeing.  

As a personal observation I would suggest the Tai Chi (along with other traditional arts) can offer many important lessons for our modern world.  The tradition handed down to us today is what it is.  However, the future of Tai Chi may rest in our growing understanding of that traditional teaching and how this can be made relevant to the needs of people both today and in the future.  Tai Chi is grounded in history (yin) but at the same time expanding and growing (yang).

If we see our world as becoming ever more polarised - setting one group against another (political), exasperated by managed media information (technology) and increasingly unequal (economic) it may be no surprise that fear and distrust become dominant human experiences (sociological).

Tai Chi therefore may offer real benefits in providing physical / emotional stability and a trust in our own personal experience of the world.  We can ‘Find Stability through Playing Tai Chi’.  Our challenge is of course to both continue to develop understand of how Tai Chi enables us to find this stability and present this understanding in a way that is accessible to people who are a product of our modern world.