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Tai Chi & Nervous System Reset
Slow down.
Breathe.
- Tuesdays 09:00–10:00
- Istanbul and beyond
- Open to all levels
SHAN— CLUB —Tai Chi & Nervous System Reset
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Special sessions across Istanbul and beyond; see the calendar.
Movements, principles, the 13 postures, styles, Wudang and the sword, Five Elements, breath and how to begin.
“You can't explain Tai Chi in one sentence.” Esat Ataç draws three circles: martial art, meditation, preventiv…
02“Everything is the art of finding harmony between opposites. We call the cooperation of opposites Tai Chi.”…
03“At our natural rhythm a movement ends within a nanosecond; the mind never engages.”…
04“At a hundred repetitions you understand, at a thousand you perfect, at ten thousand you make it natural.”…
Episode four: why the West is only now discovering Tai Chi, where the name Shan comes from, and why slown…
Does the body remember what the mind forgets? Esat Ataç and Duygu Sancaklı Dandin talk through and practi…
A journey to the roots of Tai Chi: the Wudang mountains, the Taoist tradition and the philosophy of slown…
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WDP Advanced and Jian (Sword) Instructor, founder of WDP Istanbul; 21 years, 15,000+ teaching hours. Leads the sessions.
Grew Shan Club from an idea into a community. Opens every session; asks the questions in the series.
“In my first class I was in a trance for an hour and a half. When it ended I said ‘Hocam, can we have a coffee?’ — we never parted.”
Duygu Sancaklı Dandin — founded Shan Club after her first session
“I saw so many systems in New York, but my mind stayed with Tai Chi and Qigong.”
Deniz — actor, Broadway; student of Esat Ataç
Share your experience“Tai Chi works on body and mind together: breath, balance and attention at once.”
Prof. Dr. Özlem Esen Batukan — watch
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