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# Wang Xi'an Taiji International

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- [How to Find a Tai Chi Teacher](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/how-to-find-a-tai-chi-teacher/): I get some version of this question constantly. Someone has watched videos for months, maybe tried a local class or two, and they want to know how to find a real teacher, someone who can take them further than they can take themselves. It is one of the most important questions a serious student can ask, and unfortunately one of the hardest to answer well, because the Tai Chi world has very few reliable quality signals from the outside.
- [Chen Style vs Yang Style Tai Chi](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/chen-style-vs-yang-style-tai-chi/): This is one of the questions I get asked most often, and I understand why. Yang style is the most visible form of Tai Chi in the world, the slow, even, gentle movement most people picture when they hear the word Tai Chi at all. Chen style is older, less widely known outside of dedicated practitioner circles, and looks noticeably different when you actually see it performed. Naturally, people want to know what separates them and which one is right for their goals.
- [Common Tai Chi Mistakes Beginners Make](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/common-tai-chi-mistakes-beginners-make/): In 57 years of practicing Tai Chi, and several decades of teaching it, I have watched thousands of beginners walk through the same handful of doors that lead nowhere. Not because they lack discipline. Not because they lack ability. Almost always because nobody told them what the actual mistakes look like from the inside.
- [How to Build a Daily Tai Chi Practice: What Actually Makes the Habit Stick](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/how-to-build-a-daily-tai-chi-practice/): The gap between someone who knows Tai Chi and someone who practices Tai Chi is not a gap in knowledge or skill. It is a gap in habit. I have met many people over the years who studied Tai Chi seriously for a period, learned the form, understood the principles, and then gradually stopped practicing until the practice was gone. I have met far fewer people who built a genuine daily practice in the early years and then stopped. The ones who built the habit kept it.
- [How to Practice Tai Chi at Home: Structure, Space, and What Actually Develops You](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/how-to-practice-tai-chi-at-home/): The question of how to practice Tai Chi at home comes up constantly, and it deserves a direct, practical answer rather than a vague encouragement to simply practice more. In 57 years of daily Tai Chi practice, I have practiced in studios, in parks, on beaches, in living rooms, in hotel rooms, and in spaces barely large enough to turn around in. The practice does not require special conditions. It requires understanding what you are actually developing and how to develop it consistently regardless of where you are.
- [Tai Chi vs Yoga: An Honest Comparison After 57 Years of Practice](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/tai-chi-vs-yoga/): I am asked this question regularly, by patients, by students, by people who are researching what practice to begin. Tai Chi or yoga? Which is better? What is the difference? If I already do yoga, do I need Tai Chi?
- [Silk Reeling and Joint Health: What 57 Years of Practice Reveals](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/silk-reeling-and-joint-health/): In 35 years of chiropractic practice, joint health was central to almost everything I treated. Backs, knees, hips, shoulders, necks, the joints of the spine and extremities were where my patients' pain lived and where my clinical attention was focused daily. I learned a great deal about joints through that work, about how they fail, what they need, and what conventional medicine does and does not offer them.
- [Silk Reeling Exercises for Beginners: The Foundation of Chen Style Tai Chi](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/silk-reeling-exercises-for-beginners/): Most people who come to Chen style Tai Chi for the first time encounter silk reeling before they know what it is. They watch an experienced practitioner move through a basic exercise, the arms spiraling, the waist turning, the weight shifting from foot to foot in a continuous flowing cycle, and they think it looks simple. Then they try it and discover that their body does not yet know how to move this way.
- [Wuji for Stress and Anxiety: The Standing Practice That Resets the Nervous System](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/wuji-for-stress-and-anxiety/): Stress management is one of the most crowded categories in wellness. There are apps, breathing techniques, supplements, therapy modalities, exercise protocols, and an endless supply of advice about what to do when anxiety rises or stress accumulates. Most of it has some value. Most of it also misses the central problem.
- [Wuji for Chronic Pain: What Standing Still Can Do That Movement Cannot](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/wuji-for-chronic-pain/): Chronic pain is one of the most difficult conditions I encountered in clinical practice, not because it is the most severe, but because it is the most persistent. Acute pain has a cause, a timeline, and usually a resolution. Chronic pain has often outlasted its original cause entirely. The tissue has healed. The injury is resolved on imaging. And yet the pain continues, sometimes for years, sometimes for decades, because the nervous system has learned to produce it.
- [Tai Chi for Knee Pain: A Chiropractor’s 57-Year Perspective](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/tai-chi-for-knee-pain/): The most therapeutically important component of Chen style Tai Chi for knee pain is the hip rotation work. This begins in the warm-up sequence and continues through every movement of the form. Every weight shift involves the hip rotating to guide the movement. Every transition involves the hip opening or closing to control the direction of force. The hip is always the driver. The knee always follows.
- [Tai Chi for Balance and Fall Prevention: What the Research and 50+ Years of Practice Show](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/tai-chi-for-balance-and-fall-prevention/): In 35 years of chiropractic practice, fall-related injuries were among the most serious cases I saw. Not always because of the physical damage, though hip fractures in older adults are genuinely life-altering, but because of what happens after. A fall produces fear. Fear produces guarded movement. Guarded movement reduces the proprioceptive feedback the nervous system needs to maintain balance. Balance deteriorates further. The risk of falling increases. It is a cycle that can accelerate quickly and that conventional medicine has very limited tools to interrupt.
- [Tai Chi for High Blood Pressure: What 57 Years of Practice Taught Me](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/tai-chi-for-high-blood-pressure/): I have been a chiropractor for 35 years. During that time I have seen thousands of patients, and the number of them who were managing high blood pressure, who were on medication for it, who had been told to watch it and come back in three months, is extraordinary. It is one of the most common chronic conditions in the United States. And it is one of the most underestimated in terms of how profoundly lifestyle can affect it.
- [Tai Chi for Back Pain: The Complete Guide by Dr. Bob Bacher](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/tai-chi-for-back-pain/): The clinical research on tai chi for back pain is substantial and growing. Multiple randomized controlled trials and systematic reviews have examined its effects, and the findings are consistent.
- [Wuji Standing: The Complete Method](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/wuji-standing-complete-method/): I have practiced Tai Chi every day since 1970. I have studied under Grandmaster Wang Xi'an in Chen Village for ten years. I practiced chiropractic for 35 years and treated thousands of patients. I have taught in hospitals, rehabilitation centers, prisons, Olympic training programs, and living rooms. And after all of that, I will tell you without hesitation: Wuji standing is the single most important practice I have ever encountered.
- [How to Learn Tai Chi: The Complete Beginner’s Guide](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/how-to-learn-tai-chi-beginners-guide/): Someone walks up to me in the park while I am practicing and says they want to learn Tai Chi. The first thing I do is smile. And then I tell them: this may be one of the most important and wisest decisions you make in your entire lifetime.
- [The Complete Guide to Silk Reeling](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/complete-guide-silk-reeling/): Silk reeling is the heart of Chen style Tai Chi. Not a technique, not an exercise, not a concept you study and then move on from. It is the fundamental quality of movement that runs through every posture, every transition, every breath of authentic practice. When it is present, the body moves with an effortless, continuous, spiraling wholeness that is unlike anything else in martial arts or exercise. When it is absent, what you have may look like Tai Chi, but it is not.
- [The Complete Guide to Tai Chi for Health](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/complete-guide-tai-chi-health/): People ask me what Tai Chi is good for. I find it easier to answer what it is not good for, because after 57 years of daily practice and 35 years as a board-certified chiropractor using Tai Chi as therapy with every patient I treated, I have not found that answer yet.
- [The Complete Guide to Chen Style Tai Chi](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/the-complete-guide-to-chen-style-tai-chi/): When people ask me what Chen style Tai Chi is, I could give them a dictionary definition. But a definition limits something that, by its very nature, has no limits. The Chinese word Taiji literally means "grand ultimate," which means unlimited. The moment you try to fit it into a sentence, you've already undersold it.
- [Tai Chi: Cleaning the Clutter](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/tai-chi-cleaning-the-clutter/): When the term "tai chi" is mentioned, everyone talks about how wonderful it is for improving balance for the elderly, restoring mobility to painful arthritic joints, raising energy levels, and cultivating deep relaxation of body and mind.
- [The Tai Chi Nervous System Connection](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/the-tai-chi-nervous-system-connection/): In this article we will discuss the relationship between tai chi and your nervous system. First we must define what is the nervous system and explain its function.
- [Tai Chi Balance 5 Yin 5 Yang](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/tai-chi-balance-5-yin-5-yang/): Tai Chi is defined as the balance of 5 Yin and 5 Yang. It can be explained by the following:
- [12 Reasons to Do Tai Chi](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/12-reasons-to-do-tai-chi/): A list of reasons to do tai chi. Just practice and you will manifest these benefits, and much more!
- [Tai Chi: The Ultimate in Relaxation](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/tai-chi-the-ultimate-in-relaxation/): Relaxation and tai chi are inseparable. In this article we discuss the most important aspects of tai chi and how to include these to achieve the greatest success during your practice.
- [Why Do Tai Chi? A 57-Year Practitioner Gives You the Real Answer](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/why-do-tai-chi/): In this article, we will focus on some of the main topics that address the wonderful benefits of this martial art.
- [Tai Chi Warm Ups Part 2: Lower Body](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/tai-chi-warm-ups-part-2-lower-body/): Tai Chi Warm Ups are an essential part of your tai chi training. In Part 1, we cover the upper body. In Part 2, we cover the lower body.
- [Tai Chi Warm Ups Part 1: Upper Body](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/tai-chi-warm-ups-part-1-upper-body/): Tai Chi Warm Ups are an essential part of your tai chi training. In Part 1, we cover the upper body. In Part 2, we cover the lower body.
- [What is Tai Chi?](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/what-is-tai-chi/): An in depth exploration into what is tai chi. The name, historical beginnings, benefits, and how it evolved into the most popularly practiced martial art and exercise for health and wellness.
- [Chen Tai Chi First Routine](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/chen-tai-chi-first-routine/): Chen tai chi old frame first routine (Laojia Yilu) teaches how to practice tai chi and why - it holds the key to understanding tai chi's deepest meaning.
- [Tai Chi: Overcoming Fear and Insecurity](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/tai-chi-overcoming-fear-insecurity/): Fear and insecurity are major factors affecting human behavior in our world today. Tai chi can help overcome these by building self confidence.
- [Tai Chi Posture Rule # 1](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/tai-chi-posture-rule-1/): When you study tai chi, the first thing you learn is how to stand. The rules for posture have one goal: to perfectly align your body with gravity.
- [Qigong Breathing: Open Close Method](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/qigong-breathing-open-close-method/): This ancient qigong breathing method heals your body, regenerates joints, and builds internal power. Clearly explained step by step.
- [Tai Chi and Preventive Health Care](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/tai-chi-and-preventive-health-care/): A look at problems with our health care system, and how choosing to practice tai chi can have a positive effect on our health and prevention .
- [Tai Chi Form: How to Practice](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/tai-chi-form-how-to-practice/): The tai chi form is a combination of tai chi postures and movements practiced in a specific sequence. Each style of tai chi, and most martial arts for that matter, have their own specific forms.
- [Tai Chi Stance: Internal or External?](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/tai-chi-stance-internal-or-external/): In this article we will discuss the difference between internal and external as it relates to your tai chi stance. And  we will provide a simple exercise you can do to make sure you are cultivating the internal component.
- [My Martial Art Journey Part 1](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/my-martial-art-journey-part-1/): In 1969 as a freshman in high school, I witnessed a friend get beat up by five bullies. In that moment, I decided that I needed to learn a martial art. Not to fight with anyone, but strictly in case I ever had a need to defend myself.
- [Wude: The Spirit of Martial Arts](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/wude-the-spirit-of-martial-arts/): The purpose of this editorial is to express how important martial virtue is, and that it should always be included for the character development of students who are learning martial arts.
- [Tai Chi Form: Traditional vs Modern](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/tai-chi-form-traditional-vs-modern/): The purpose of this article is to define the differences between traditional and modern (competition) tai chi forms, and why it is important for the future of tai chi to preserve the ancient traditions.
- [Tai Chi Silk Reeling](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/tai-chi-silk-reeling/): Silk reeling is tai chi's spiraling whole body movements. This article defines what silk reeling is, and its benefits for health self defense.
- [Wuji and Zhan Zhuang](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/wuji-and-zhan-zhuang/): Zhan zhuang and wuji get confused constantly, even among practitioners with years of training under their belt. Both involve standing still. Both look almost identical to someone watching from the outside. And both show up in nearly every internal martial art, from Chen style tai chi to Xingyiquan to Baguazhang. But they are not the same practice, they are not trying to accomplish the same thing, and understanding the difference changes how you approach both of them.
- [Tai Chi for Children Part 2: The Character and Martial Virtues That Last a Lifetime](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/tai-chi-for-children-part-2/): In Tai Chi for Children - Part 2, we discuss the virtues children acquire through tai chi martial art training and their value in daily life. The self discipline and cultivation of intention involved in tai chi training goes a long way in the childrens' maturing into healthy adults.
- [Tai Chi for Children – Part 1](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/tai-chi-for-children-part-1/): In this article we will discuss why the practice of tai chi is so valuable for children, and more importantly, why tai chi needs to be included as a required course of study in the public school system curriculum.
- [Tai Chi Healthcare: Why Sick Care Is Not the Same as Health Care](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/tai-chi-healthcare/): Tai Chi Healthcare was developed by Dr. Bob Bacher to build optimal health thru daily tai chi, meditation, healthy eating, and fresh air and sunshine.
- [Tai Chi for Arthritis: Understanding the Process and Reversing It](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/tai-chi-for-arthritis/): For the millions of people suffering from arthritis, tai chi offers a solution through its flowing, spiraling, full body movements and its emphasis on aligning the body with gravity.
- [Tai Chi Lower Body Silk Reeling: The Foundation of Whole-Body Power](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/tai-chi-lower-body-silk-reeling/): Lower body silk reeling is perhaps the most important fundamental training method in tai chi. Here is a step by step breakdown how to practice.
- [Martial Arts and Longevity: Why Most Training Gets It Wrong](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/martial-arts-and-longevity/): Martial arts and longevity should go hand in hand, and yield healthy benefits for your whole lifetime and not only when you are young.
- [How to Stand in Tai Chi: The Complete Alignment Guide](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/tai-chi-the-art-of-standing/): In this article we discuss 3 methods how to stand to achieve proper alignment - the key to all tai chi postures and movements.
- [Wuji: The Art of Stillness Part 2 — The Inner Process](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/wuji-the-art-stillness-part-2/): In this two part article we will discuss the correct method to practice Wuji. Part 2 focuses on the inner process of relaxation and stillness.
- [Wuji: The Art of Stillness – Part 1](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/wuji-the-art-stillness-part-1/): In this two part article we will discuss the correct method to practice Wuji. Part 1 focuses on outer alignment and the proper method of standing.
- [Chen Style Tai Chi Rule 1: Never Try to Control Anything Outside Yourself](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/chen-style-tai-chi-rule-1/): The ultimate goal of Chen style tai chi training is to understand and manifest this one simple rule: to keep your own balance.

## Pages
- [Chen Style Sanshou: Wang Xi’an’s Chen Style Fast Form](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/workshops/chen-style-sanshou/): Sanshou (Chen style fast form) is offered as a weekend workshop — two full days with approximately 12 hours of training total.
- [Silk Reeling Workshop](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/workshops/silk-reeling-workshop/): Weekend workshop — 2 days, 12 hours total — available worldwide for hosting
- [Introduction to Chen Style Tai Chi Workshop](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/chen-style-tai-chi-introduction-workshop/): Weekend workshop — 2 days, 12 hours total — available worldwide for hosting
- [Tai Chi Form Workshop](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/workshops/tai-chi-form-workshop/): Weekend workshop or 6-day intensive — available worldwide for hosting
- [Taiji Qigong Workshop](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/workshops/taiji-qigong-workshop/): The Taiji Qigong workshop is offered as a weekend format — two full days with approximately 12 hours of training. This is enough time to learn all six components of the sequence and develop sufficient familiarity with each to practice independently.
- [Tai Chi Yoga Connection Workshop](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/workshops/tai-chi-yoga-workshop/): Weekend workshop — 2 days, 12 hours total — available worldwide for hosting
- [Workshops & Intensives](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/workshops/): Dr. Bob Bacher is a 20th-generation Chen style lineage holder and a direct student of Grandmaster Wang Xi'an, teaching Chen style tai chi for decades!
- [Privacy Policy](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/privacy-policy/): Our website address is: https://dochenstyletaichi.com.
- [Chen Style Tai Chi Products](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/chen-style-tai-chi-products/): Keep deepening your Tai Chi practice with ongoing lessons via video. Get real-time feedback and inspiration. 
- [Getting Started with Tai Chi](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/chen-style-tai-chi-getting-started-here/): The purpose of this website is to provide you with the highest quality tai chi instruction and the most comprehensive, step by step, easy to understand learning method.
- [Tai Chi Costa Rica Retreats](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/workshops/taichi-costa-rica-retreats-info/): Reconnect with Nature and focus on cultivating a deep and transformational Tai Chi practice.
- [WANG XI’AN CHEN STYLE TAI CHI SCHOOLS](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/wang-xian-tai-chi-chen-style-tai-chi-wang-xian-chen-style-tai-chi-schools/): Dr. Bob Bacher    www.dochenstyletaichi.com    chenti@mac.com
- [Pavones, Costa Rica](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/tai-chi-house-tai-chi-costa-rica-vacations-pavones-costa-rica/): Pavones combines rain forest, jungle, green mountains, uncrowded beaches, magnificent sunsets, and the turquoise warm waters of the Pacific. You will see scarlet macaws, toucans, dolphins, whales, giant sea turtles, monkeys, sloths, brilliant butterflies, and much more on a daily basis. Pavones is the perfect setting to completely relax and enjoy Nature while you fully immerse your body, mind, and spirit in the practice of tai chi.
- [Hosting Events](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/hosting-chen-style-tai-chi-events/): Thank you for your interest to host a Chen style tai chi event, and sharing the wonderful benefits of tai chi with your community.  Below you will find information about hosting an event.  Please contact me with any questions you may have.
- [Tai Chi Online](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/tai-chi-online/): A lot can be accomplished via video. Of course, I would rather see you in person but this is an excellent option if you need guidance. I'll help you keep your practice inspiring and rewarding.
- [Testimonials](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/bacher-tai-chi-testimonials/):  "Dr. Bob Bacher has a very profound knowledge both of health care and the art of tai chi that is rarely found today. His vast experience enables him to teach in a very individual (unique) way and at the same time to keep it simple. His dedication to the art and his authentic attitude regarding a healthy lifestyle gets students really enthusiastic about the subject of learning and using tai chi. He has the great ability to further the learning process of students in a perfect way while having fun at the same time!"
- [About Dr. Bob Bacher](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/about-dr-bob-bacher/): In 1969, a 15-year-old boy in Miami watched five bullies beat up his friend at school. He was standing just a few feet away. He couldn't do anything.
- [Chen Style Tai Chi Articles from Dr. Bob Bacher](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/chen-style-tai-chi-blog-articles-bob-bacher/)
- [Chen Style Tai Chi](https://dochenstyletaichi.com/): Our tai chi training program will build your self confidence, heal and prevent sickness, and cultivate vibrant health for life.