"Balance is the Foundation of Life"

The root of traditional Taijiquan is martial arts. However it is equally valued for its capabilities for maintaining health, increasing fitness, promoting healing, enabling mental clarity and calmness, enhancing wellbeing, relieving stress, providing mental stimulation and physical challenges etc.

The most fundamental requirement for a person to maintain an acceptable state of physical and mental health is to realise the dynamic balance of three aspects - balance of physical activity and inactivity; balance of mental tension and relaxation; balance of exertion and recuperation.  Hence the old Chinese adage: "Balance is the foundation of Life".

 

 Taijiquan is all about balance.  It emphasises coordination, coexistence, alternation, symmetry,  integration etc - Yin and Yang principle in all of its aspects.  To create an integrated system by which the human body can self-regulate in order to achieve a state of dynamic balance.

Taijiquan has a positive role in regulating and influencing the eight major systems of the body,  namely, the skeletal system, the nervous system, the circulatory system, the respiratory system, the digestive system, the urinary system, the endocrine system, and the reproductive system. The characteristic regulatory role is the combination and interaction of internal and external aspects of the body - the external prompts the internal; the inside synchronises with the outside, influencing each other.   "The mutual aspects of Yin and Yang is the root of all things".