Weymouth Senior Center offers popular Tai Chi class
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Uploaded by patriotledger on Jun 19, 2007
When tai chi was introduced to a few local senior centers 10 years ago, it was the new kid on the block -- a source of curiosity as much as a way to stay healthy.
Some thought it was a fad, but the gentle, graceful martial art has survived and blossomed. It is now offered at a number of senior centers, is featured at health fairs and other events for older people and has attracted a very dedicated group of practitioners.
One of them is Marie Anderson of Hingham, a seven-year veteran and former teacher who started the exercises to relieve the stress from her job. When she retired as an elementary school teacher at the Nash School in Weymouth several years ago, she took it up in earnest and now takes two classes a week, in Weymouth and Braintree, and practices on her own at home.
Her fluid, decisive movements make the art form look natural and intuitive. In reality, it takes practice to master the small, refined movements, sequences and rhythms that create that graceful ease.
Anderson and Jacqueline Ierardi of Holbrook are among a dozen regulars who attend a weekly Tuesday afternoon tai chi class at the Whipple Senior Center in Weymouth. Mike Showstack, of Wu Li Academy in East Bridgewater, teaches the class. At 60, Showstack is a very youthful senior himself.
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Bless their hearts! May I make a suggestion, please. I emphasize the internal discipline of the strongest part of the body...the core. If you have had an orthopedic injury you know what I mean. Give them more sitting in a chair, turn gently from r to l, that stabilizes the hips. Turning hips too much puts too much strain on knees, since body is then turning at knees...a weak junction. Strong junction is at waist...above the hips. Each senior's core strength is stronger than "Arnold's" arms.
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Looks like a great place, my Mum would have liked it. But this wasn't there then.
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