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EFFECTIVE & ADAPTIVE IN RESEARCH & PRACTICE
T’ai Chi Chih is a brief, manualized and standardized form of TCQ that is easily integrated with various evidence-based Complementary and Integrative Health modalities like: physical therapy & functional fitness, nutritional counseling, psychotherapy & Mind-body therapies, resilience training, and trauma-informed care.
Researchers looking to use T'ai Chi Chih click hereT'ai Chi Chih: its versatility, adaptability, and diversity
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The practice is adaptive and used with special populations including:
· Military & Law Enforcement plus those living with chronic mental health diagnoses like suicidality, PTSD & depression
· Progressive neurological disorders like MS, Parkinson's, plus various forms of dementia & cognitive decline
· Those with degenerative aging & mobility challenges
· The homeless
· Those in SUD recovery & rehab
· The incarcerated
T’ai Chi Chih has been utilized in numerous randomized controlled trials with significant outcomes for older populations with late-life depression, cancer survivors, reduction of inflammation, increased immunity against shingles virus, and others. Ironically, the longest continually-running T’ai Chi Chih classes in the world began in 1998 at Folsom State Prison (CA) where Accredited instructors teach inmates weekly.
The following are testimonials from a few of Folsom’s incarcerated T'ai Chi Chih practitioners:
“I do T’ai Chi Chih every day in my cell. I grew up doing movements like these with my Grandma and my Mom... in a small village in Fiji. I have over 100 stab wounds on my body. I’m sensitive to people’s energy – and this class is healing the wounds I have on the inside. This class contributes to my 24 years of sobriety from heroin. It heals the pain from my childhood and my addiction. It’s how I get ‘high’ now.”
“I’m only 23 and a veteran from the War in Iraq. When I came home, my Post Traumatic Stress was bad and I got into trouble. I came in here wound up pretty tight. I don’t know what I’d have done without this T’ai Chi Chih class and my teacher's support. When I get out, I can’t wait to go and do it in a park under the trees. There’ll probably be these old ladies in the park doing their Tai ji, and they’ll just laugh at me with all my tats, doing my T’ai Chi Chih.”
“I’ve been in this T’ai Chi Chih class for 4 years. The pain in my body is gone and I feel good. When I get out, I want to be a teacher, to pass this along to others; to share this calm. Once you have it, it stays with you.”
“Life gets better and better, the more I practice. I do T’ai Chi Chih on the yard, on the tier, anywhere I can. I’m too big to do it in my cell though. In class, when we hit that right momentum, the universe stops...the universe is taking care of me.”
“I believe it’s so important in martial arts to have balance with something like T’ai Chi Chih. As I began to focus on different movements inhere, I had a quick appreciation for how peaceful I felt very quickly. I took all the handouts and books to my cell and studied. I’ve been trying very hard to reform myself for a long time, and the balance, polarity, softness – these are all things I’ve needed in my life. I recently went before the Parole Board (I’ve been in prison 31 yrs.) and they focused on this class. They asked me about my certificate, and asked me about the Six Healing Sounds. I demonstrated the movements and the principles, and shared about how my lifelong practice had been violent and aggressive but now my life is about peacefulness. I said that now I can take this with me. The Board was impressed. They saw how it’s had a genuine effect on me, and the Board found me suitable for parole.”