{"id":78,"date":"2019-09-11T23:19:38","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T23:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs2019\/?p=78"},"modified":"2019-09-11T23:19:38","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T23:19:38","slug":"tai-chi-and-the-yin-and-yang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs2019\/2019\/09\/11\/tai-chi-and-the-yin-and-yang\/","title":{"rendered":"Tai Chi and the Yin and Yang"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year I took my physical well-being, and it ended up that I had enrolled in tai chi. Going into the class, I had not really know what tai chi was, but I learned more about the Chinese culture and movement than I had expected. Throughout the semester one of the topics we talked about was yin and yang and how it was related to the Chinese culture. In class we defined yin as being soft, yielding, and empty while yang was the more stressed and harder parts of life. Tai chi is spent mostly in the yin, being soft and empty, because in most of our day-to-day life we are in the yang, and are clenched or stressed out. My professor believed that if we learned how to be more in the yin side of life during class, it would help us to better balance our life when we were out of class. Tai chi can be described as a \u201c\u2018meditation of motion\u2019<\/a> and promotes serenity and inner peace\u201d. In class we practiced this through meditation and slowing our breathing before each class began. If you would like to see an example of the forms of tai chi we did in class watch this video.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last year I took my physical well-being, and it ended up that I had enrolled in tai chi. Going into the class, I had not really know what tai chi was, but I learned more about the Chinese culture and movement than I had expected. Throughout the semester one of the topics we talked about … <\/p>\n

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