{"id":7817,"date":"2025-04-18T10:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T00:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celestialtaichi.com.au\/?p=7817"},"modified":"2026-08-06T16:16:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T06:16:59","slug":"2025-04-why-tai-chi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrcsites.com.au\/ctc\/2025-04-why-tai-chi\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Tai Chi?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently commenced Tai Chi classes in Doncaster after a long hiatus (at least 20 years!). In the past I had mastered a different form but family life got in the way. Now retired in my 60\u2019s, I already do strength training to assist with my ageing bones but I felt I needed something to enhance flexibility and balance.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that I recall very little of the form from yesteryear showed me that not only is Tai Chi a gentle but excellent workout for the body, the need to remember the quite intricate movements means it is a brain workout as well.<\/p>\n<p>I have to say, I am enjoying the class immensely and find the limbering up movements at the start of class calming for the mind and stimulating for the body.<\/p>\n<p>I also enjoy the different instructors and what each bring to the experience. Here\u2019s hoping I can eventually master this form.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Student, Doncaster East Day Class<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Updated: 18 April 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently commenced Tai Chi classes in Doncaster after a long hiatus (at least 20 years!). In the past I had mastered a different form but family life got in the way. Now retired in my 60\u2019s, I already do strength training to assist with my ageing bones but I felt I needed something to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7826,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrcsites.com.au\/ctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrcsites.com.au\/ctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrcsites.com.au\/ctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrcsites.com.au\/ctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrcsites.com.au\/ctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7817"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrcsites.com.au\/ctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9262,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrcsites.com.au\/ctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7817\/revisions\/9262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrcsites.com.au\/ctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrcsites.com.au\/ctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrcsites.com.au\/ctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrcsites.com.au\/ctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}