Exploring the Depth of
Tai Chi for Arthritis and Fall Prevention
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For over 30 years, Dr Paul Lam has taught this workshop around the world, hundreds of times, to people who already knew Tai Chi for Arthritis and wanted more from it. It is now available as a self-paced online program you can work through in your own time, and return to as your tai chi develops.
Watch Dr Lam's introduction to the program
This is the introduction video from the program itself, exactly as you will see it when you begin. It runs for a few minutes and explains what the lessons cover and how to approach them.
Is this program right for you?
About Exploring the Depth of Tai Chi
This program is for people who already know Tai Chi for Arthritis and Fall Prevention. It does not teach the movements. It takes you into what sits inside them.
Tai Chi for Arthritis and Fall Prevention is the program Dr Lam created more than 30 years ago, and millions of people have learned it since. It is based on Sun style, gentle enough for people with arthritis or balance concerns. The program is supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, along with health departments and arthritis foundations around the world, and the published medical evidence, including more than 35 studies of Dr Lam's Tai Chi for Health programs, sits with that program.
These lessons take what you learned there further.
You are ready for these lessons if:
☑️ You have learned Tai Chi for Arthritis and Fall Prevention, whether from a certified instructor, from Dr Lam's online lessons, or from the DVD.
☑️ You can perform the set from memory, without following along.
☑️ You want to go further into the program rather than learn it for the first time.
If all three are true, you will get a great deal from these lessons.
Exploring the Depth is Dr Lam's teaching for people who have learned a form and want to go further into it. The foundational programs teach the movements. These lessons take you inside them.
The series covers several forms, each as its own program. This one covers Tai Chi for Arthritis and Fall Prevention. Others cover the Yang Style 24 Forms and the Sun Style 73 Forms, with more to follow.
Tai Chi for Arthritis is based on Sun style. Sun style is smooth, flowing and relatively easy to learn, and it holds real depth and internal energy. Within its simplicity are many layers to explore for a lifetime. That is why people return to this material again and again, finding something new each time.
What you will work on
Dr Lam takes you beyond the physical movements to the inner meaning of the tai chi principles, and shows you how to bring them into your forms.
Much of the work is with internal energy. You will practise:
➡️ Using the Yi (mind or intention) to cultivate the Qi (vital life energy or internal energy)
➡️ Converting the Qi into Jin (internal force)
➡️ And using the Jin to generate a more powerful wave of Qi.
The lessons begin with the Dan Tian breathing method, continue with Dr Lam's warm-up exercises, and move through a sequence he developed and tested across hundreds of workshops over 30 years.
These techniques apply to all styles of tai chi, so what you learn here will carry into whatever else you practise.
Dr Lam describes the work as climbing a mountain. The direction is simple enough, but there are potholes and turns along the way, and it helps to have someone who knows the path. He guides you as far up as you wish to go, in the most enjoyable and safe way.
Why Dr Lam created 'Exploring the Depth'
Soon after Tai Chi for Arthritis was created more than 30 years ago, people said it was too simple. Part Two followed. Dr Lam's own view was that the program already held great depth, with or without Part Two, and that anyone could keep practising, keep improving, and reach as high a level of skill as they wished.
About Dr Paul Lam
Dr Paul Lam is a family physician and tai chi expert from Sydney, and the founder of the Tai Chi for Health Institute. Millions of people have learned his Tai Chi for Health programs.
His programs are supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and by health departments and arthritis foundations around the world. More than 35 published peer-reviewed medical studies have examined his Tai Chi for Health programs. Over 500 medical studies have looked at tai chi more broadly, showing improvements in muscular strength, flexibility, fitness, relaxation, balance and immunity.
He has written best-selling books, including Teaching Tai Chi Effectively, along with instructional DVDs and online lessons. He has travelled nearly two million miles teaching, and has a knack for making complex theory easy to follow.
He has spent more than 50 years working out what makes tai chi effective for health, inner strength and quality of life. These lessons are where he shares what he has found.
You have learned the movements. Now go deeper into them.
For people who know the Tai Chi for Arthritis and Fall Prevention set and can perform it from memory.
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How the program is structured
FOUNDATIONAL VIDEOS
Introduction and Stay Safe
Qi and Breathing Method
Dan Tian Breathing Method
Tai Chi Principles
THE FIVE SECTIONS
01 The Core Six Movements
02 The Extension Six Movements
03 Converting Qi to Jin in the Extension Six Movements
04 Incorporating Jin to the Core Six Movements
05 Applying New Concepts to Tai Chi for Arthritis Part II
TO CLOSE
Demonstrations
The program opens with foundational videos, then moves through five sections. Each section includes warm-up and cooldown exercises, as well as reviews of previous sections as you go along. Demonstrations of the full form with front and back views are also included at the end.
Practice is the key. It is the best way to feel the energy and understand the deeper meaning. However good a theory sounds, without practice it stays theory. Work through the material at a pace that suits you, stopping to practice as you go.
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Learn the program first. Dr Lam teaches Tai Chi for Arthritis in twelve online lessons, with step-by-step instruction, close-up views and practice sessions. Come back to the depth lessons once the set is comfortable from memory.
Dr Lam still practises this program regularly himself, and still finds more in it.
After learning the movements, he says, we can go deeper. Much deeper.
People kept asking him the same question. How do we do that?
The Exploring the Depth workshop was his answer. He has since taught it hundreds of times, travelling nearly two million miles around the world, and the workshops have been mostly fully booked. Requests followed for an online version. He hesitated at first. After 30 years and many hundreds of workshops he had developed a clearer understanding of what people are looking for and how to explain the depth effectively, and he came to the view that it could be done well.
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