Description
Practicing Tai Chi regularly helps reduce stress, improve balance and coordination, strengthen immune systems, and develop body awareness and confidence. This class is for students who have already learned the First Section of the Tai Chi long form in the “Beginners’ Tai Chi” class. This class will focus on learning the postures of the Second Section of the long form while continuing to practice and improve the First Section (postures #1- #23) along with deep breathing exercises in each class. The Eight Pieces of Brocade Qigong will be used as warm-up exercises before practicing the Tai Chi form. Wear loose, comfortable clothes and soft-soled shoes, such as flat sneakers. Outdoor shoes are not permitted inside the studio.
Lai Chan has been learning and practicing the traditional Yang style Tai Chi long form under the instruction of Masters Tai Chun Pan since 2018 and Virginia Payne since 2023. Previously in CA, Lai learned and practiced martial arts (Karate and Tae Kwon Do) during her university years at U.C. Berkeley. Lai has been teaching Tai Chi at the Cambridge Center for Adult Ed. and at Lexington Community Ed. since 2023 and 2024, respectively.
