Nabi Su Martial Arts, Kung Fu, Tai Chi & Wellness Center: Tai Chi

Nabi Su offers Yang Style Long Form, Two-Person Form, Saber, Double-edged Sword and Pushing Hands.

Tai Chi Chuan is a whole-person exercise developed in China. Borrowing moves from the fighting art of Kung Fu, Tai Chi slowed the pace and softened this ancient system, emphasizing health and spiritual benefits over martial applications. Graceful and dance-like, this gentle, meditative exercise develops the body through posture and breathing.

Video clip of Master Campora performing a segment
of the Nabi Su Yang style Tai Chi form.

Practiced daily by millions of Chinese, Tai Chi attracted attention in the US as exotic and beautiful movement that endows mystical powers. A Bill Moyers PBS series featured frail-seeming masters using Chi power to overwhelm superior strength and numbers. While the program dramatically illustrated Tai Chi's soft power, its emphasis on glamour and mystery overshadowed Tai Chi's utility value for the average American.

Americans began taking Tai Chi seriously for its health benefits when studies appeared in the most prestigious US medical journals. A Johns Hopkins University study found that regular Tai Chi practice nearly equals aerobic exercise in reducing blood pressure. In 1996 a study from Emory University School of Medicine found lowered blood pressure, increased balance and a nearly 50% reduction in falls for those practicing Tai Chi among the sample population of seniors.

Further studies have expanded the list of Tai Chi's health benefits. These include overall toning, improved posture and circulation, increased flexibility and strength. Emotional and spiritual benefits including calming, centering, focus, sense of control, energizing, inner joy.

Imagine the implications of these findings in terms of reduced hospitalizations, medical treatments, injury (broken hips, for example), pain and suffering, lasting mobility difficulties, and even deaths resulting from high blood pressure, falls and complications.

If you could reduce your probability of having any serious medical emergency by 50% would you do it? And if the action required were low cost, not very time consuming, emotionally and spiritually enriching, and pleasant, would anything stop you from doing it?

You will gain Tai Chi's benefits with just a few moments of gentle practice each day.

It is easy and enjoyable for you to learn Tai Chi at Nabi Su. Our teaching method ensures that from the first day of class you will be able to practice comfortably at home. Now do your part. Give yourself this soothing gift. Your health is in your hands.