Private Tai Chi Training - $25 hr in Hartford, Connecticut For Sale
Tai Chi is a xxxx year old martial art that has also proven to have profound healing benefits. Therefore, it is not just a different form of exercise.
3 Short stories:
1. I had a 65 year old man who couldn't climb one flight of stairs without the help of his wife. He was getting atrophy as he didn't like any form of exercise whatsoever. The doctors were worried about him and suggested Tai Chi. Most people are familiar with watching the Asians do slow motion movements in the parks of China before work, but there are also standing postures that must be held a prescribed way.
I tricked this man knowing that his lack of interest in exercise meant he wouldn't memorize the form, let alone do it. I prescribed the posture I wanted him to do and asked him if he could commit to doing it once in the morning and once at night. I told him that I wanted him to start the posture when a TV commercial started, and to sit down when his regularly scheduled program returned. He agreed that he could do this simple request.
TV commercials run 3 to 5 minutes. The prescribed time to hold this posture is 5 minutes, but I would be happy to get 3.
At the end of 4 months, I asked Ken how he was doing, and he told me that he could now climb the stairs unassisted. His self esteem was restored, and he went on to learn the form...which made him even stronger and more healthy.
2. One women, who use to be a dancer, has fallen into ill health, waking up with pain throughout her whole body. After just 5 sessions, she has no more pain.
3. Another younger woman who is a nurse takes aspirin every morning due to serious back pain. In just 2 sessions, her pain has left her.
I could list a myriad of similar stories.
Tai Chi is also great for stress relief. Due to years of training, stress is now the exception for me with "stress-less-ness" being my norm.
You do not have to "beat yourself to death" with high impact forms of exercise that will destroy the joints over time. One concept of Tai Chi is to learn how to move with as little muscle as possible. The focus of the work is on becoming very aware of your body's structure, giving attention to your joints, ligaments, sinews, and skeletal system. Most forms of exercise work on building up muscle, whereas Tai Chi will teach you how to move with as little muscle as possible. Therefore, as we age, knowing our muscles will deteriorate over time, our reprogramming through Tai Chi means that we will have no negative impact on us when we become elderly since we've been training with minimal muscle usage all along.
Think of this as your "retirement plan" for your body. You put money away when you're working in order that you will have money later to meet your needs when you are no longer physically able to work. In the same way, you are training to move with "no muscle" so that you will still be independent and autonomous as you age.
Not to mention how Tai Chi restores and maintains one's balance... the biggest factor in elderly people that leads to falls, which result in broken bones... and often death due to the unfortunate self perception that one is "dying" from the aging process. This does not have to happen.
My fee is $25 hr plus gas to drive to your location based on actual gas prices. IRS has an established wear and tear rate that combines gas plus wear and tear on a per mile rate. My conviction is to help people, and thus charge a fair private lesson fee as well as a true cost for me to travel to your location. My car gets 20 miles to the gallon, so it's easy enough for me to calculate a fair gas cost based on the current price at the pump.
I will close with my favorite quote that's based on what we've all heard with regard to intense body building and aerobic workouts that goes
"No Pain? ... No Gain..."
From a Tai Chi perspective, my quote is:
"No Pain? ... No Pain!!!"
To better your health and well being ...