Healthy Heart and Cardiac Rehabilitation with Taoist Tai Chi™ arts
If you have been diagnosed with heart disease or have had recent cardiac surgery, you may be feeling weak, anxious, perhaps even depressed. Certainly cardiac challenges can deeply affect your enjoyment of life.
Fortunately, Tai Chi helps people improve their heart health, better manage heart disease, recover from cardiac surgery and live fuller lives. With Taoist Tai Chi™ practice, many people have found they increase energy, reduce stress and anxiety, and dramatically improve their mood. As well, the physical movements improve cardiovascular and muscular strength and circulation, reducing the risk of developing heart problems and minimizing problems that may occur. Training in these arts gives people a way to maintain healthy heart function.
People practising Taoist Tai Chi™ arts also find they have better balance and flexibility, and a feeling of lightness and well-being.
Move Confidently · Feel Balance · Find Strength
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Stories of Recovering from Cardiac Surgery
Video 1: Learn how Taoist Tai Chi® arts gave a woman the courage to go through with surgery and how grateful she is. Before the surgery she used what little energy she had to do her Taoist Tai Chi® practice. The surgery went exceptionally well and she was up on her feet walking further and out of the hospital quicker than other people.
Video 2: Discover how a woman used Taoist Tai Chi® arts to help her recover from surgery. Taoist Tai Chi® practice gives her energy and the gentle movement significantly helped in healing scar tissue after the splitting of her breastbone.
Video 3: A man describes how Taoist Tai Chi® arts keep the chest open, which aided in his recovery from double bypass heart surgery. He had no scar tissue pain and felt resilient because of his practice.
What are participants recovering from cardiac challenges saying about Taoist Tai Chi® practice?
Western medicine helped a lot after my heart attack 10 years ago, but Taoist Tai Chi® practice made, and continues to make, a huge contribution. One of the cardiologists at St. Paul’s Hospital was pleased that I was doing Tai Chi and ordered me to “do Tai Chi every day”. One of his colleagues observed that I’d regained my strength faster than anyone else who had come through the hospital’s Health Heart Program.
– Bill, Canada
As a heart transplant recipient, I am keenly aware of how important it is to manage stress, both physical and emotional. Taoist Tai Chi® practice has helped me very much in managing my stress.
– Carrie, Canada
Cultivate health and well-being with Taoist Tai Chi® arts
The whole body approach of Taoist Tai Chi® arts has a profound effect on all aspects of our health and well being. Mind, body and spirit are deeply nourished and transformed.
Taoist Tai Chi® practice involves a full range of motion with deep stretching and continuous turning of the spine. It exercises the whole physiology including muscular, skeletal and circulatory systems, as well as tendons, joints, connective tissue and organs, increasing strength, flexibility and resilience, whatever our condition. It is a form of moving meditation that has a penetrating and relaxing effect on the nervous system and the brain, reducing anxiety, lightening the spirit, calming and clearing the mind.
Experience Taoist Tai Chi® practice at a location near you.
