Anne Bower
P.O. Box 74
South Pomfret, VT 05067
ph: 802-457-2877
anniebow
Click on "Current and planned classes" at the right to see Anne's 2021 ZOOM teaching schedule--
Anne Bower has been teaching tai chi for fourteen years and has been helping train other teachers for the past eight. Locally, she's a member of the Abbott Memorial Library Board (Pomfret, VT) and volunteers with Bookstock--the local literary festival that happens each summer.
WHY TAI CHI? WHY NOT? Looking for a class? --see Current and Planned classes page.................................................>>>>
More and more studies are showing tai chi's health benefits.
As reported in The New England Journal of Medicine (Feb. 9th, 2012), researchers compared resistance training, stretching and tai chi as therapies for people with mild to moderate Parkinson's disease. They found that those doing tai chi (twice a week for six weeks) had the greatest improvement in balance and walking, and the lowest incidence of falls.
Here are some useful articles about tai chi's benefits:
October 2015 GreenMedicine website: http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/scientists-wowed-tai-chis-health-benefits
Sept. 28, 2010 New York Times article:http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/28/health/28brody.html?_r=1&ref=science
Nov. 26, 2010 U.S. News & World Report article: http:// health.usnews.com/health-news/diet-fitness/pain/articles/2010/11/26/for-health-benefits-try-tai-chi.html
Online article from WebMD: http://www.webmd.com/osteoarthritis/guide/tai-chi-for-arthritis
Mayo Clinic article re Rheumatoid Arthritis-yoga-tai chi:
YANG STYLE: 24 FORMS
Why study Tai Chi?
Clinical studies have shown tai chi improves balance, concentration, and coordination. It reduces falls, joint pain, and stress. And tai chi classes are also FUN!!
Classes currently taught, etc.
A Downside to Tai Chi? None that I See--New York Times article, Sept. 27, 2010, by Jane E. Brody
We try to coordinate hand and foot movements, breathing naturally, learning how to move with continuous flow.....
Copyright 2009 Anne Bower . All rights reserved.
Anne Bower
P.O. Box 74
South Pomfret, VT 05067
ph: 802-457-2877
anniebow