It is common for people to see taijiquan as just being another night school class, 'alternate therapy', a martial art or perhaps even dance.
Taijiquan is far more than this.
It is not an alternative to yoga, karate, Zumba or line dancing.
If you were to study Pilates for decades it is unlikely that the system would fundamentally change your temperament, world view, relationship with others and provide a viable system of combat.
Pilates may improve your quality of life, health and posture.
But that is all.
Taijiquan begins where the other exercise systems finish.
The physical work is just the start of your training; most of the real work is psychological.
Learning the system may completely change the way in which you live and to regard it as purely exercise is to see only what you want to see.
The training is also concerned with replenishing your life energy (qi).
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