Is there anything new age like in "tie chee"?

[SueKrum]

I may have spelled tie chee wrong. not sure how it’s spelled.

anyhoo, I was invited to join a tie chee class with a co-worker. it’s pretty cheep and she said she would drive me (I don’t drive). I really want to do something to get myself in shape and doing something like this might be kind of fun. but I don’t want to be doing things like “sun worship” poses or anything that even comes close to pegan stuff. I figure better to stay away from it completely if I"m not sure.

anyone know anything about tie chee? I know nothing about it. is it like yoga? the woman who said she would take me isn’t religious at all, so she wouldn’t understand what I was saying if I asked her this question. so I thought I would ask it here.

thanks

 

[E.E.N.S]

The only thing I know about it is that it is a soft martial art, and that it is spelled “tai chi”

 

[thistle]

I may have spelled tie chee wrong. not sure how it’s spelled.

anyhoo, I was invited to join a tie chee class with a co-worker. it’s pretty cheep and she said she would drive me (I don’t drive). I really want to do something to get myself in shape and doing something like this might be kind of fun. but I don’t want to be doing things like “sun worship” poses or anything that even comes close to pegan stuff. I figure better to stay away from it completely if I"m not sure.

anyone know anything about tie chee? I know nothing about it. is it like yoga? the woman who said she would take me isn’t religious at all, so she wouldn’t understand what I was saying if I asked her this question. so I thought I would ask it here.

thanks

If you practise Tai Chi soley for exercise its no problem. I know a priest who does it every day for exercise.

 

[Melanie01]

A lot of Asian countries will have hordes of oldies doing Tai Chi as a gentle focus exercise and breathing sequence.

I have "done"Tai Chi in the past, it certainly is not New Age as such but certainly has roots in the Eastern religions.

When you master the “sets” if you sped them up very much you could take out some ones eye , however at the speed done the only eye you would take out was of a person who was frozen to the spot …try it, it is a great way to relax, and exercise particulary if you are carrying old injuries etc.

 

[Lion_of_Narnia]

The various posture names are pretty allegorical and poetic and should NOT be taken as some sort of pagan worship.

That said, there are many people who WILL go all Eastern mystical w/ the “soft/internal” martial arts (tai chi, pa-kua, hsing-i, & japanese aiki-do). A person who does that is usually already on the path away from Christian spirtuality–however an unkowing person who gets into school that stresses this might be in some danger–like a person who gets into a Yoga school that is taught as a expression of Hinduism

 

[SueKrum]

The various posture names are pretty allegorical and poetic and should NOT be taken as some sort of pagan worship.

That said, there are many people who WILL go all Eastern mystical w/ the “soft/internal” martial arts (tai chi, pa-kua, hsing-i, & japanese aiki-do). A person who does that is usually already on the path away from Christian spirtuality–however an unkowing person who gets into school that stresses this might be in some danger–like a person who gets into a Yoga school that is taught as a expression of Hinduism

this is what I’m wondering, is tai chi yoga like? I know next to nothing about it and don’t want to get into it if there is ANY risk of it leading me away from Christ. maybe I should try out one of the classes and try and figure it out for myeslf. or maybe I’ll call into women of grace live and ask Fr. Ed or Jeanette (or how ever you spell her name)

 

[HoppityRedux]

this is what I’m wondering, is tai chi yoga like? I know next to nothing about it and don’t want to get into it if there is ANY risk of it leading me away from Christ. maybe I should try out one of the classes and try and figure it out for myeslf. or maybe I’ll call into women of grace live and ask Fr. Ed or Jeanette (or how ever you spell her name)

Is Tai Chi yoga-like? Yes and no. There are so many different schools, forms, and approaches to Yoga that some are like Tai Chi, and some are not. There is no single description of Yoga.

 

[Melanie01]

this is what I’m wondering, is tai chi yoga like?

Yoga has breathing techniques I think. The Tai chi postures have typically Chinese names like “Dragon Stance”" “Crane on Ball” that sort of thing.When I went to Tai Chi it was all about the movement of the body, no mystic or superstitious stuff at all…

 

[patrick457]

I don’t think Tai Chi Chuan is New Agey or something (though the name Taichi or Taiji is from Taoism). You might as well link Shaolin with Buddhism since that Martial Art came in the Buddhist temple of Shaolin.

It depends on you though. If you feel practicing it is leading you away from God then do not practice it.