The core of the 108 movement form are just 4 movements which can be performed repeatedly to get most of the benefits of Tai Chi. Just 5 minutes a day bring results but 20 minutes a day is better.
Ray Van Raamsdonk and Julia Yeung
In 1978 I taught a lunchtime Tai Chi class at BC Hydro in Vancouver where I worked. I did this as a way to practice the Tai Chi that I was learning from Master Raymond Chung. This Master was still teaching until 2019 at the age of 105!
Ray teaching the members of a regular walking group some Tai Chi movements. everyone picked it up very well.
Here Ray is practicing the basic pushing hands of Yang style Tai Chi with Fei during a break in the Wing Chun class at the University of Victoria.
The Victoria Chinese Happy Drum Group, thought they would try some of Ray’s Tai Chi. They all picked it up easily.
The Harvard Medical School Guide to Tai Chi talks about all the health benefits of Tai Chi in great detail.
Start position of the basic four movement Yang style Tai Chi exercise set.
