Tai Chi Health and Meditation Helps Prisoners

Loading...

Sign in or sign up now!
Alert icon
Upgrade to the latest Flash Player for improved playback performance. Upgrade now or more info.
3,621
Loading...
Alert icon
Sign in or sign up now!
Alert icon

Uploaded by on Dec 17, 2008

20 Years ago, Bruce Kumar Frantzis was asked and then volunteered to teach Wu style Tai Chi at the New Mexico State Penitentiary (which had just undergone extremely violent riots). The experiment of learning Tai Chi had a profound effect on the prisoner's lives, both by fixing long standing ailments (and stress) with Tai Chi's Medical Aspects and by rehabilitating the prisoners (and in turn contributing to calming down the violence in the prison) through practicing Tai Chi as meditation. This success of teaching Tai Chi to prisioners led to a brief televised documentary on Postscript.

  • likes, 1 dislikes

Link to this comment:

Share to:
see all

All Comments (5)

Sign In or Sign Up now to post a comment!
  • Awesome.

  • I was also asked to teach in a prison. Students were same as those outside very dedicated, asked many questions, very friendly too

  • thanks for posting! great vid, it's nice to see prisoners talked about as people.

  • good work!

Loading...

Alert icon
0 / 00Unsaved Playlist Return to active list
    1. Your queue is empty. Add videos to your queue using this button:
      or sign in to load a different list.
    Loading...Loading...Saving...
    • Clear all videos from this list
    • Learn more