Tai Chi for Healthy Aging
By [ http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Carolyn_Cooper ]Carolyn Cooper

Tai Chi improves overall fitness, coordination and agility. People who practice Tai Chi regularly tend to have good posture, flexibility and range of motion. They also tend to have more mental clarity and sleep more soundly at night. Tai Chi goes to the root of most health problems by relaxing the muscles and mind, aligning the spinal posture and balancing the energy systems that run through the body, providing them with life energy. As a profound self-improvement tool, Tai Chi is one of the most powerful, yet soothing things you can do for yourself. The magic of Tai Chi is found in the unique combination of movement, breathing and meditation.

Tai Chi - A Top Choice of the American Council on Exercise (ACE)
By [ http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Carolyn_Cooper ]Carolyn Cooper

As a fitness professional certified through the American Council on Exercise for the past 17 years, I have seen and taught many different types of fitness classes. Some of these types of workouts stand the test of time, while others last only a short while, or don't catch on at all. As a Tai Chi instructor, I am very pleased that people are now placing more value on the mindfulness of exercise, and not just the physical aspect.

Mind-Body Fitness
By [ http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Carolyn_Cooper ]Carolyn Cooper

Mind-body exercise is a form of movement that increases fitness in some way-muscular strength, aerobic levels, flexibility, balance-but also enables you to engage your mind in a non-judgmental way and with an inward-directed focus that may become contemplative.