Andy the ChiDog
KIDS Tai Chi is a
non-competitive focus!
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KIDS Tai Chi combines play with practice to
engage and balance the kids body, mind and emotions.
engage and balance the kids body, mind and emotions.
For the Body
- Work with growing bodies to help make them strong.
- Introduce the images of Tai Chi form, playing with the movements in very pleasant ways.
- Softly, realize the many possibilities of how we can move our bodies, stretching, strengthening, and developing muscles and tendons without injury.
- Introduce play without competition.
- Encourage the benefit of exercise for a healthy body.
For the Mind
- Emphasize developing attention by concentrating on the details.
- Improve self awareness and memorization skill through the exercises of attention, concentration and reasoning.
- Improve self control and direct their natural energy for useful purposes by thinking about the movements and their bodies together, and understanding the subtle coordination of the movement .
- Develop internal and external focus.
For the Emotions
- Improve their self confidence and ability to realize new things.
- Engage their creative minds and promotes happy relationships with their class mates.
- Support the importance of good ethical principles by relating stories and examples.
- Develop a compassionate nature by playing in a group and being aware of other children's feelings without a competitive focus.
- Help to calms the mind.
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To register for KIDS Tai Chi, contact:
Mary Cruise at 573-228-4415 or email mary@columbiataichi.com