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CANCELED: Tai Chi with Healthy Acadia

CANCELED: Tai Chi with Healthy Acadia In-Person

The library is happy to bring back Tai Chi for Health with Nina Zeldin of Healthy Acadia. Comprised of qigong and Yang style mind-body movements, this Tai Chi for Health Institute program is a gentle but strong foundation for better health and wellbeing for all ages. Healthy Acadia’s Tai Chi courses help empower people to improve their health and wellbeing through slow, smooth, and continuous mind-body exercises. These gentle movements can help alleviate pain, reduce stress, increase strength, flexibility and balance, and improve cognitive function and coordination.

Pre-registration is required: https://forms.gle/NecZZGVD92hga6px8

About Tai Chi and Healthy Acadia's Tai Chi for Health Classes:
The ancient Chinese practice of tai chi is a martial art form that combines slow, deliberate movement sequences with breathing exercises. Regular tai practice has been proven to improve relaxation, flexibility, balance, concentration, cardiovascular health, and muscle strength, and can help to relieve pain and symptoms of chronic disease.  

Since 2014, Healthy Acadia’s certified instructors have offered “Tai Chi for Health” classes in communities across Hancock and Washington counties, Maine. “Tai Chi for Health” offers proven health benefits and can be enjoyed by people of all ages, and at all levels of physical ability. “Tai Chi for Health” is an evidence-based program developed by Dr. Paul Lam, founder of the Tai Chi for Health Institute. “Tai Chi for Health” classes combine gentle, rhythmic exercises with focused breathing techniques to promote movement control through the integration of both mind and body. 

Healthy Acadia’s “Tai Chi for Health” courses are evidence-based and use a step-by-step teaching method, which makes tai chi easy to learn. “Tai Chi for Health” can be enjoyed by people of all ages, at all levels of physical ability.

“Tai Chi for Health” provides a deeply impactful opportunity for participants to improve internal and external strength, self-confidence, flexibility and balance. Regular tai chi practice also helps participants:

  • Alleviate stress
  • Reduce pain
  • Increase cardiovascular fitness by improving heart and lung function
  • Gain better self-control and empowerment
  • Improve posture, resulting in less wear and tear in the joint muscles
  • Integrate the mind and body

Date:
Wednesday, January 15, 2025 Show more dates
Time:
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Time Zone:
Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
Location:
Riverview Room
Audience:
  Adults     Teens  
Categories:
  Workshop > Healthy Living  

This class will not meet 12/25 and 1/1 because of our holiday closures. 

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