The benefits of tai chi go beyond "a moving form of meditation". As a registered nurse and an clinical exercise physiologist, Dixon began to experience tai chi's healing power first hand.
"As a medical person, it all just fit together. Tai chi is like a cardio vascular exercise. It helps the heart, the lungs, the muscles, it helps the blood flow."
According to Dixon, tai chi also helps stress, blood pressure and the immune system, which is particularly important if you have arthritis.
"A lot of arthritis is related to your immune system. The inflammatory is in your joints. It's what causes discomfort and causes the pain. So moving gently and easily is decreasing that inflammation in the joint."
The moving meditation has really helped her participants fight the pain of arthritis.
She has also noticed her students have become calmer and more flexible, with stronger core muscles. Tai chi may not be medicine in a bottle, but its medicinal power is certainly working in this classroom.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
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