There are many styles of Tai Chi being taught in Taiwan and China today. Harmony Tai Chi is similar to those styles, yet it maintains a gracefulness, naturalness and evenness that exceeds any of the newer styles. As its name implies, it brings about unity between the body, mind and spirit. It is a good practice for people of any age for health, enjoyment and artistic intention. It is the most suitable style for people who admire and would like to learn some simple Tai Chi.

In our teaching of the Integral Way, the path of spiritual self-development, the Eight Treasures is required, along with Harmony Tai Chi. Other styles of Tai Chi are not required, because they are for more advanced students who have a higher interest, ambition or enjoyment.

Harmony Tai Chi Movement (also called Trinity Style, Unity Movement, or Internal Harmony Tai Chi) contains the essence of the Chen, Yang and Wu styles. Chen movement was developed earlier than Yang and Wu, which are later, simplified styles. The Chen Style, which alternates between strength and softness, originally developed from martial arts. The Yang Style tends to be gentle and slow. The Wu style tends to be lighter and faster.

Since Harmony Tai Chi has a balanced focus on integrating the body, mind and spirit, it is the style most suitable for men or women of all ages. Because of its unique quality of capturing the essence of the Yang, Chen and Wu styles of Tai Chi, Harmony Tai Chi saves the serious students of Eastern Health and philosophy the necessity to learn these other styles separately. Instead, it allows for more time to pursue higher forms of learning that are specific in one’s cultivation of directing the focus on each of the three tan tiens.

One will readily note the expression of Yin and Yang energies throughout the Contained (Part I) and Expansive (Part II) segments of the long form, alternating between the two polarities in a continuum. The experience of this graceful dance of Yin and Yang energies teaches one to become more aware of the Universal Subtle Law in his or her daily life, immediately righting the imbalance and maintaining equilibrium in one’s thoughts and action to avoid violating the natural law. Harmony Tai Chi, as its name implies, harmonizes and unifies all three spheres of the human being, allowing its practitioner to experience his or her entire being in synchrony—the Spirit attains clarity in guiding the mind, the Mind achieves impartiality in communicating with the body, the Body carries out its physiology in sustaining life.

Harmony Tai Chi captures the gracefulness and the meditative benefits of the popular Yang Style, the power generating aspects of the Chen Style, and the agility of the Wu Style. It distills the unique benefits of all three styles into one form that can be easily learned by anyone who is interested in improving their health and well-being. Many serious students may learn Trinity Style as a stepping stone to the higher forms of Tai Chi Movement such as Gentle Path, Sky Journey or Infinite Expansion.