Tài jí
Definition: "The supreme ultimate, the undifferentiated whole of the universe sorted into yin and yang."
Falk Dictionary of Martial Arts
What is Tài jí?
There is much more to it than you may imagine.
Tài jí (tai chi) is an ancient physical activity using natural, intelligent movements to produce flow in your body, quiet your mind and calm your emotions.
Although developed as a martial art in China, the incredible benefits for our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well being has been discovered and shared throughout the world.
You are better able to deal with life and personal challenges by utilizing the tool of tài jí as a means to cope with emotional inner conflicts and interpersonal interactions through mind and body awareness, development, focus, and concentration to deal with everyday life situations.
What is Tài jí Life?
Manageable practices to add wellness to your day.
Tài jí Life provides online classes taught by Wendy along with easy to follow videos in a casual and easy to understand format. Wendy teaches gentle, fluid movements that engage every muscle and joint in the body. These flowing sequences are relaxed, comfortable motions that will leave you feeling strong, calm, refreshed and revitalized.
These slow and thoughtful forms of tài jí are based on the traditional Yang Family style of taijiquan that she has learned from the internationally renowned Master Sam Masich and his students.
Your experience is enriched with meaningful context of related philosophy and background to each course. You will find this to be a calm and engaging online environment with no pop-up ads, additional music or distractions. The tutorials are often set in the beautiful outdoors yet you can learn and practice in the comfort of your own home or on the go with any mobile device.
A growing list of online courses are available so you can step in at the beginning with complete yet manageable routines to build upon and add to your life.
Wendy's Professional Path
Wendy’s first acquaintance with Tài jí was in 1993, when she attended Tai Chi lessons while studying for a Bachelor’s Degree in Education at York University in Toronto.
While continuing her own practice of tài jí, she has worked as a primary school teacher, a full-time mural painter, and a stay-at-home mother who also ran her own face painting business.
Wendy has earned Tài jí instructor certification from the Canadian Taijiquan Federation (2012) and Masich Internal Arts (2015). Her own learning from Master Sam Masich, has inspired Wendy to reach out to people like you with a program that provides a meaningful and practical introduction to tài jí.
Wendy’s journey teaching Tài jí has followed her from Dufferin County and York Region, Ontario to Gatineau, Quebec. She has taught for tai chi centers, recreational programs, community events, in church basements and in parks, at women’s retreats, seniors’ residencies, in karate dojos and in the basement of her own home.
Tài jí Life represents the fruit of a lifelong dream.
Wendy currently lives in Gatineau, Quebec where she continues her own studies of tài jí through the Gilles-Vaillant Tai Chi under Masich Internal Arts Method by Master Sam Masich.
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