Corporate Tai-Chi

 

Art-of-Energetics offer qualified instructors to teach Tai-Chi and Chi-Kung in the workplace. Instruction can fit within an organization easily. A class in the morning before work or lunchtime is recommended. 

The class is one-hour duration and the charge is £50.

A wise company knows that its success is dependent upon its most valuable resource: its employees. The number of wellness programs springing up throughout our country’s corporations today is a testimony to this fundamental truth.

Ironically, the timeless holistic fitness system of  Tai-Chi (Taijiquan - T’ai Chi Ch’uan) meets the modern criteria for keeping all employees healthy in mind, body, and spirit. At the same time Tai-Chi, translated as “Supreme Ultimate”, complies with the needs of the bottom line of a company. Taijiquan can be inexpensively implemented while keeping employee productivity levels high.



Stress
One of the main problems that companies deal with in the competitive marketplace is stress on the job. A Newsweek magazine cover story was devoted to this insidious problem of stress. The article stated that in the USA stress is costing the “economy as high as $150 billion a year-almost the size of the federal deficit. “Within the same article they mentioned that the “Cambridge Research Lab in Boston offers a class in the oriental art of Taijiquan to help its workers blow off steam.”

Stress can be a killer and a culprit for disease. It is responsible for much waste and devastation in our society. Stress also robs us of other important factors on which companies need to thrive, such as innovation, flexibility, motivation, endurance, and creativity. The principles of Tai-Chi are an embodiment of the essentials for achieving success, but not at the cost of tension or anxiety.

With the reduction of stress, the practice of Tai-Chi has proven to reduce high blood pressure. In a low bent knee position, Taijiquan has shown to be a cardiovascular stimulating exercise without stress or strain on the joints, muscles, tendons, and ligaments.



Ideal for the Workplace
Tai-Chi makes the most practical of choices for fitness in the workplace, because you are practicing important principles needed for making clear thinking decisions while at the same time securing a complete and sensible workout. Taijiquan is based on natural law. The dynamics of a healthy productive organization incorporates these laws also. You can avoid burnout through balanced, well thought through procedures and good defensive and offensive strategies while keeping the mind and body in a responsive mode.

Tai-Chi and especially Chi-Kung is so simple to incorporate that it is surprising that more companies have not instituted this sensible program for keeping their employees fit. On a practical note, there is no need for expensive gymnasiums, equipment, showers, or uniforms. An employee can come dressed to work in easy to move in clothing and low flat shoes the day of Tai-Chi class. A forty-five minute to an hour-long class refreshes, relaxes, and re- energizes you without the pain or strain of more bombastic kinds of exercise programs.

 

 

In the Organization
An organizational environment is like a microcosm of life. Tai-Chi is performed solo, but often practiced in-group unison. The company that has harmony, yet respects the individual, is a desirous place to work. This “soft martial art” provides a safe activity that promotes these important aspects for an organization and its people to thrive. There have been a growing number of places over the last number of years that have successfully implemented Tai-Chi into their employee wellness programs. Even the army has joined the act. In the USA The Walter Reed Army Hospital’s Wellness Centre in Bethesda, MD has taught Tai-Chi exercises to staff and patients. The goal was “to demonstrate the importance of using the mind as a therapeutic tool to soften the impact of stress on the immune system and other body functions. The American Health magazine article went on to say “the main mission of the Army corps is to maintain a healthy fighting force. The more we stress prevention, the closer we get to that goal. “The concept of a strong self-defence organization parallels the workforce of a company”.