Tai Chi

Originating in China hundreds of years ago, Tai Chi not only conditions physically and relieves stress, but ultimately leads you to a heightened sense of well being. It is a discipline based on principles of focus, balance and movement. Tai Chi requires a minimum of space and absolutely no equipment!

The term Tai Chi Chuan actually means “Supreme Ultimate Fist” in Chinese. It is one of the fastest growing health practices in the world today. Tai Chi holds the secrets to deep relaxation, personal mastery; body awareness and self-knowledge.

T'ai Chi [Supreme Ultimate] comes from Wu Chi [Formless Void]
and is the mother of yin and yang.
In motion T'ai Chi separates;
in stillness yin and yang fuse and return to Wu Chi. -Wang Zongyue (18th Century Tai Chi scholar)


Our Orange County Tai Chi program guides you through a warm-up, posture and breathing techniques, and walking and hand movements. The body movements are combined into a graceful flow of techniques. After just a few lessons you will feel the benefits of this ancient practice.

Our Orange County Tai Chi program trains students in what is known as a yielding or soft style of martial arts. Our training integrates Chen style Tai Chi silk reeling-spiraling power Chi Kung (Chan Ssu Chin) with the internal art of Yong Chun Chuan. Students learn to move in Tai Chi through a fluid, circling pattern of movements for health rather than for fighting.
Within yin there is yang.
Within yang there is yin.

Yin and yang mutually aid and change each other.
  -Wang Zongyue (18th Century Tai Chi scholar)
Meditation exercises help students control their breathing, develop a greater awareness of their body and encourage a calm and controlled mental attitude. The internal arts require decades to master and the constant unraveling of new material through the Orange County Tai Chi program ensures that each student remains interested and challenged for a lifetime. Like the famous yin/yang symbol, the balance that Tai Chi practice creates is an extremely empowering  life force within the student.
Insubstantial [empty; yin] and substantial [solid; yang]
should be clearly differentiated.
At any place where there is insubstantiality,
there must be substantiality;
Every place has both insubstantiality and substantiality.
-Chang San-feng (est. 1279 -1386)
 The Orange County Tai Chi program holds it's classes in Dana Point, California at The Dragon Institute Kung Fu School located at 34241 Pacific Coast Highway. We offer 3 intro Tai Chi & Qigong classes for $19.95 so new students can try our classes out before joining. To sign-up for our intro, go to http://www.ocwingchun.com/2010/04/online-special.html.

Tai Chi Orange County