We are very excited to introduce Tai Chi to our studio.  We will be offering one class to begin with.  If you have any questions you can email us directly.  Email here or call our office to learn more at 410-263-0050

The instructor is Andrew Davenport.  A video clip of his practice is shown below.

Schedule at Balanced Life Skills

Sunday:  Tai Chi  10:00 AM

 First class is FREE!

Tuition is $55 per month (rolling admission)

Here is a Tai Chi form by Andrew. Great job!

A Mnemonic of Thirteen Tai Chi Chuan Movements

Let no one esteem lightly the Thirteen Movements 
But bear in mind that your consciousness of them commences in the waist, 
In performance, care must be exercised regarding your transposition 
from one stance to another, 
the twists and turns in each movement, and the distribution of blanks and 
substantives in a given movement, 
While keeping the chi freely circulating throughout your whole body. 
All changes and motions are conceived and touched off in the stillness of absolute quietude, 
Hence motion and action are kindred to rest and inaction, in other words, ultimately 
indistinguishable from each other. 
Likewise, the mystery of Tai-Chi Chuan is that 
It is your opponent's movements that condition your own as adapted by nature 
to his own undoing. 
Remember to be mindful of every single move by trying to feel its meaning, 
And you will eventually come into possession of the art's secrets without conscious effort. 
Rivet your attention, without even a moment's interruption, onto the waist interval, and 
Keep your abdomen free from tension due to food or impurities, so that 
Your vitality flux (chi) may, as it were, boil and rise like steam. 
Keep the lowest segments of your vertebrae central in relation to gravitation all the while, 
when 
Your limbs and body are gyrating with effortless nimbleness, and your head is held 
buoyant as if suspended from above. 
Carefully observe and investigate and convince yourself that 
Your way of bending or straightening, your closing-in or throwing open should never 
be as you will them to be, but as Nature wills. 
A novice will require verbal instruction during the initial stages. 
But practice will steer its own course and bring about its own perfection. 
As to the theory and practice, i.e., the constituents and functioning of Tai-Chi Chuan, 
The spirit is sovereign and the body its servant, 
The end purpose of these exercises is to prolong life and endow it with the youth of eternal 
spring. 
Oh, sing! Oh, sing! Sing this short song of 144 Chinese characters; 
Commit every single word of it to memory without exception. 
Enquiries and researches that deviate from this approach 
Only waste time and leave behind regrets and sighings.

From Kuo Lien Ying's book Tai-Chi Chuan in Theory and Practice