Tai Chi in San Francisco, CA

Why choose our Tai Chi classes in San Francisco?

 

Personalized and Engaging Classes with Highly Qualified Instruction

 

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Mike J. Ng Tai Chi classes in San Francisco strive to be challenging, yet fun and engaging, offering our students a learning environment that is extremely personal, warm, and welcoming.

 

All classes are personally taught by Master Mike Ng, who attends to each individual student, making corrections, answering questions, and teaching new material.

 

You will discover immediately that Master Ng is both patient and thorough in his teaching, always willing to clarify points and further explain and demonstrate in detail the mechanics and purpose of each posture.

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Quality Training, Not Just Following Along

 

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Our San Francisco Tai Chi classes are unique in that they promote quality Tai Chi (Taiji) training with a special focus on detail and refinement, while still maintaining an atmosphere that is both respectful and supportive.  Far too often, Tai Chi (Taiji) is taught in a "just follow along" type nature. This, however, results in students merely mimicking the physical movements with no actual understanding of the principles of Tai Chi (Taiji).

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At Mike J. Ng Tai Chi San Francisco, we overcome this with Shifu's step-by-step structured approach to stance, posture, and forms training: individual movements and footwork, along with their body mechanics and practical applications, are introduced in detail; these are then strung together into various combinations, which in turn, are linked together into complete Tai Chi (Taiji) forms.  This method of teaching offers all of our students a strong foundation and in-depth understanding in Tai Chi (Taiji), which is not only conducive to their continued practice, but provides for a rewarding hands-on experience in this powerful, yet equally elegant, centuries-old art form.

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Steady Progress and Skill Building, No Guessing Where to Go Next

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While many of our students have little to no Tai Chi (Taiji) background prior to joining Mike J. Ng Tai Chi and Bagua Institute, they soon develop skills they initially thought would be difficult or even impossible to learn!  This is due largely in part to our structured, progressive curriculum that was specially designed by Master Ng to guide our students step-by-step, easing them into their Tai Chi (Taiji) training, honing their skills, and helping them to achieve their personal goals.

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For beginning students, our curriculum begins with the basic Tai Chi (Taiji) postures and movements.  Qigong (Chi Kung) exercises are also integrated into every class, allowing students of all levels to appreciate the meditative aspects of Tai Chi (Taiji) practice.  As students progress through the curriculum, they learn more advanced hand and weapon forms.  At the advanced level, students not only continue to learn more challenging sets but also focus in greater detail on the intricacies of each form, including energy cultivation and practical self defense and martial application.

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