Friday, February 4, 1933
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When part of a person's body if stiff, he is, in effect,
also stiff in his mind, Gehman said. 13y learning to loosen
up one's body and gain balance, he said, a person does
the same with his mind.
Tai Chi improves balance, strengthens legs and can
lower blood pressure, which makes it beneficial from a
Western point of view, he said.
Gehman teaches a short form of Tai Chi. which looks
a lot like dancing. It includes 60 to 70 postures, which
take about eight minutes to perform. Longer forms
have up to 1 70 postures, he said.
The different postures are to be performed in one
flowing movement. Gehman has his students follow him
through several postures, then go through isolated ones
individually to perfect their positioning.
Although the originator of Tai Chi is not known for
sure, a man named Chang-San-Feng is thought to have
developed the technique around 1400 A.D. The first
Tai Chi books translated into English came to the United
States around the 1950s, Gehman said, but the art has
become popular within the last 1 5 years.
Gehman said lie first saw Tai Chi about eight years
ago at the Smithsonian Art Institute in Washington,
DC. People were performing ihe art in a film on the
history of Chinese art, he said.
It interested him that most Chinese painting masters
also were experts in Tai Chi, Gehman said. They believed
that the paint brush is held with the whole body and that
an understanding and command of the body and mind
is necessary to paint, he said.
Although he sees the effects and the benefits of Tai
Chi, he cannot justify what happens from a scientific
point of view, and that interests him, Gehman said.
The course, which began Jan. 26, costs S25. Gehman
said he will start another class and continue the old one
if there is enough interest.
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