About Heal and Strengthen the Spine with T’ai Chi & Qigong
Heal and Strengthen the Spine with T’ai Chi & Qigong is a combination of guided stillness practices—standing, sitting and lying down—and gentle moving exercises specifically designed to help relieve and prevent back pain.
The focus is on reducing stress and tension, boosting energy flow, cultivating deep relaxation and nurturing tranquility. The complementary practices of stillness and movement maximize the benefits of each and lead to deeper and restorative sleep. Sound sleep is necessary for robust health and well-being.
Master Yang Yang, Ph.D. will guide you through essential practices of T’ai Chi and Qigong to heal and strengthen your spine. Master Yang developed this course based on his own healing journey from severe back pain following a bike accident. The practice is gentle yet powerful, aiming to relieve and prevent back, neck, and hip pain.
Recovering from back pain can be an exhausting, slow, and frustrating process. Our goal is to work in concert with your medical professionals to help heal and strengthen your spine through a simple, gentle, progressive, movement and meditation based practice. Following appropriate medical care and advice, this approach aids the healing process while helping to generate hope and build confidence in the body’s ability to repair itself.
This course will provide comprehensive tools and strategies for pain relief and management as well as improving overall health and to help with healing and overall function.
Heal and Strengthen the Spine with T’ai Chi & Qigong is a combination of guided stillness practices—standing, sitting and lying down—and gentle moving exercises specifically designed to help relieve and prevent back pain.
“It has been enormously beneficial to my decrease in anxiety , general relaxation, improved sleep and increased sense of well being. I am better able to participate in the physical activities I enjoy with improved endurance and less back pain. Thank you , Master Yang .I am very grateful for this course.”
—Alexander Kagan, PT
Specifically you learn how to:
Develop hope, patience, and tranquility while facing back pain and adversities
Promote transformative body awareness to relieve tension and develop biomechanically sound alignment and posture
Strengthen your core and spine muscles to relieve pressure on your spine
Gently and safely develop increased spinal flexibility
Boost energy to deal with physical and emotional challenge
Improve sleep through deeper relaxation
Modify the movement according to your physical condition
Prevent setbacks and injury