Tai Chi

Tai Chi is a wellness and exercise system that developed from the Chinese martial art Tai Chi Chuan. Slow, graceful movements challenge strength, balance, and coordination while improving all three. The meditative aspect of Tai Chi helps relieve stress and tension and are thought to reduce pain and normalize blood pressure over time. 

As the group leader, Nathaniel Brundige, has studied Tai Chi for two decades and has led weekly meets in local parks and libraries since April 2023. 

Nathaniel does not charge tuition, just asks that participants bring a nonperishable food or monetary donation our group can then give to Community Harvest Food Bank. It is important to him to not just help the individual, but to help the community too.

Nathaniel finds a successful class format is a ninety minute meet beginning with warm up stretches, then a choreographed form, followed by skill and coordination drills, repetition of the…