Researchers found that tai chi classes helped older adults improve their subtle problems with cognition (memory and thinking skills). It also helped them with a fundamental multitasking skill: walking ...

Tai chi is an ancient Chinese martial art. While historians don’t know exactly when the practice began, it may have been as early as the 8th century. “Tai chi started as a martial art in a time when ...

Tai chi can have significant benefits for older adults, due in part to the way it focuses on muscle control, stability, balance, and flexibility. Tai chi is an ancient Chinese movement practice that ...

Seniors citizens in Willows are meditating in motion. Ever since taking up tai chi one year ago, Barbara Kistner, 86, has not only improved her strength and balance, but said her overall health and ...

If you're getting older, martial arts may not be on your radar as an activity you should take up. In fact, when most people think about how they want to spend their days in retirement, activities like ...

In 2014, Marcia Wyman of Concord was focused on two things: teaching Tai Chi and spending her retirement competing at the national level in archery. She then suffered a stroke. Her left side was ...

Seniors at the PSS Davidson Center on Union Avenue are mastering the martial art of Tai Chi, strengthening their minds and bodies. The slow, gentle and flowing movements of Tai Chi intend to help the ...

The Abington Senior Community Center will be offering evening Yoga and Tai Chi classes instructed by Rick Schmoyer and Ted Michalowski on Tuesdays for ten weeks through Nov. 17. Yoga will be offered ...

The ancient art of tai chi, plus a modern twist, may help older adults reverse mild declines in brain power, a new clinical trial reveals. Researchers found that tai chi classes helped older adults ...

Sifu, as she calls him. Thatrsquo;s Chinese for instructor.Nixon is the instructor of a new Tai Chi class at the Sunshine Center in downtown St. Petersburg. And chances are, itrsquo;s like none ...

YMCA group fitness instructor Roseann Quinn, in front, teaches a class of senior students during ‘‘Tai Chi: Moving for Better Balance,’’ a class being offered from 11 a.m. to noon Tuesdays in the YMCA ...