Tai Chi for Life: Gentle Exercises for Seniors & Beginners with Dr Paul Lam

Please watch this Introduction and Stay Safe video before starting this program and doing any active movements. Dr Paul Lam gives a brief introduction about the gentle and flowing art of tai chi, which has been medically proven to be one of the most effective exercises for health of mind and body. Dr Lam also talks about how to stay safe during this program to prevent injury.

Dr Paul Lam starts with a show of mutual respect and guides you through warm-up exercises for safety. Dr Lam starts teaching "Tai Chi for Life", a specially-designed tai chi set, with two starting movements - "Commencing Form", and "Open and Close". He then guides you along to practice along with him, and ends with cool-down exercises.

Dr Paul Lam starts with warm-up exercises and a run-through of Lesson 1. Then Dr Lam teaches a new movement, called "Fair Lady Working at the Shuttles". Throughout the program, Dr Lam explains tai chi principles. He then invites you to practice the movements with him, and ends with cool-down exercises.

With this lesson onwards, Dr Paul Lam begins with guiding you through full warm-up exercises, which he calls "1-2-3". After running through the movements from Lesson 2, Dr Lam teaches you a new movement called "Balancing Four Corners", a slightly more complex movement which gets easier once you get the rhythm of it. You then practice through the movements and end with cool-down exercises.

After a full warm-up and run-through of the previous lesson, Dr Paul teaches a new movement called "Tai Chi Kicks". He introduces some variations to help you be more comfortable with the movements of your tai chi. Throughout the program, Dr Lam gives you tips and advice on how to improve your tai chi. You can practice the movements with Dr Lam at different angles, and end with cool-down exercises.

Dr Paul Lam gives you advice on how to explore diversity and add variety to your tai chi movements. He invites a special guest, Master Trainer Hazel Thompson, to help give advice on how to add more fun as you practice your tai chi while still keeping to the tai chi principles.

After full warm-up exercises, Dr Lam guides you through a run-through of Lessons 1-5 with revisions. In this final lesson, Dr Paul Lam ties it all together by explaining how he composed this tai chi program and dives deeper into the tai chi principles behind it that make it such an effective exercise for health and well-being.

Dr Paul Lam demonstrates the program. At the end, the end credits roll.