Oasis

Week in, week out, people attend tai chi classes. The instructor is always friendly. The lessons are always stimulating. Your fellow students are always courteous, well mannered and nice.

Your personal life may be in turmoil, your work life may be tedious or disappointing, yet tai chi class remains a constant: comfortable, familiar, friendly and fun.

Instead of being met by rivalry, one-upmanship and stress, you encounter friendship and warmth.

The health benefits of tai chi

Tai chi offers a balanced approach to the cultivation of health, vitality and wellbeing. 
There is no sweating, straining or panting for breath. There is gain without pain.
The benefits of tai chi are significant and long-lasting:

1. Stay calm
2. Develop your memory skills
3. Mindfulness
4. Boost energy
5. Increased brain activity
6. Cultivate an unusual form of strength
7. Improved joint function
8. Feel balanced
9. Increased stamina and endurance
10. Release deeply-held muscular tension
11. Meditation & awareness
12. Increased flexibility
13. Coordination
14. Better focus/concentration
15. Learn to relax naturally
16. Improved poise and posture

Long held to be an excellent anti-aging regime, tai chi may indeed be the perfect exercise (Harvard Medical School).

Tai chi tasters @ Hatton Gallery

The Hatton Gallery in Newcastle are offering an event on the evening of 19th May as part of the Late Shows 2012 (www.thelateshows.org.uk).

The Late Shows take place across a series of venues, and the idea is that people spend around 20 minutes at each venue before moving on to the next. The theme, in contrast to the Olympics, is 'As Slow as Possible'.

The Hatton Gallery plan to include a slow motion dance performance, an origami artist, and a tai chi demonstration.

10 minute tai chi taster sessions available: 7:30 - 10:30 PM.

http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/hatton/

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