Tai Chi: Meditation Through Movement

Pairs of black-and-white tennis shoes line the floor while their owners move across the room in long, slow dance-like movements.
Arms make graceful arcs as the group bows, hands crossing and uncrossing, all in unison with soft music in the background.
The only sound is socks sliding across the tile floor as the students’ arms fold into a movement resembling the neck of a crane.
“We’re moving and relaxing,” Rick Tate, Tai Chi instructor and pastor of Fairwood United Methodist Church, said.
Tate, dressed in black, twisted his body from one fluid movement to the next, bowing low and bending deep.
Tai Chi, practiced in China for centuries, is a martial art, an exercise and a means of improving the flow of internal energy within the body. (More)

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