Functional Taijiquan

I will be there for the closing on Sunday. Don't miss it!

I will be teaching some Tai Chi and Qigong this Sunday at the Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine Expo on the DU campus. Click the link and come check it out, it's free!

Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine EXPO 2026 A WHOLE-PERSON HEALTH & COMMUNITY WELLNESS INITIATIVE Join us for an inspiring weekend exploring whole-person health.

Amazing video with Alan Watts. He might as well be talking about Tai Chi, all the same principles.

Alan Watts - Zen In Fencing And Judo Welcome! My name is spae and I post whatever I want :)If you wish ...

Excellent analysis of the current “Tai Chi Walking” scam. A must watch!

The Biggest Fitness Scammer You've Never Heard Of Who is behind all these AI Tai Chi videos flooding social media? I...

This!

🌀 Ever feel like your arms are just… doing their own thing?

“In Tai Chi your arms do not move except as part of your body. If they act independently, the exercise is worthless.”
- Cheng Man Ching

Rooted in the feet.
Powered by the legs.
Directed by the waist.
Expressed through the hands.

When your body is connected,
movement becomes smoother, stronger, and more natural.

Tai Chi isn’t about isolated motion.
It’s about integration.

💬 Are you moving as one… or in pieces?

Over the last few years online fitness marketers have discovered through keywording that certain words dramatically increase click-through rates and Tai Chi is one of them

After all it infers gentle exercise, longevity, and Eastern wisdom. So when advertisers combine Tai Chi and walking, they hit the perfect demographic: people over 50 looking for a low-impact exercise. Because this group spends more time on Facebook, they click more health-related content and they have a higher disposable income.

But despite all of these adverts when you look at what's behind them, Tai Chi walking turns out to be completely unrelated to Tai Chi - for what is offered is nothing more than slow marching, knee lifts, light callisthenics, and simple balance exercises. These are all good exercises but they are not Tai Chi - and while Im on the subject - these exercises are everywhere and freely available by searching Youtube for fitness exercises for the over 50s.

Such poor marketing is a shame because it misses out all the real skills that Tai Chi does train. Not muscle gain, not weight loss, not “your spouse won’t recognise you in 2 weeks” nonsense, but excellent skills in balance control, coordination, joint strength, breathing, energy boosts, concentration and that elusive state of “flow”.

So is Tai Chi walking a thing? Well, its is a bit like selling “Mozart breathing.”
Breathing is real. Mozart is real.
But putting the two together doesn’t make a new musical technique.

Join me on March 14th as I teach a Tai Chi and Push Hands class for Art Students League of Denver.

Tai Chi & Push Hands: Movement and Listening as Loving Gestures Join longtime martial artist and Tai Chi instructor Bradley Ryan at the ASLD Englewood Branch for a free hour-long class as part of our Loving Gestures exhibit. The session will explore how love is expressed through mindful movement and attentive connection, focusing on foundational Tai Chi forms an...