Tai Chi Proven Effective for Fibromyalgia

THURSDAY, 26 AUGUST 2010

YMAA.com author Ramel Rones is featured in a New York Times article "Tai Chi Reported to Ease Fibromyalgia" on August 19, 2010. (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/19/health/19taichi.html?_r=1&ref=health)The story was picked up in the news after the results from a study at Tufts Medical Center were published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The 12-week study, designed by Ramel Rones, concluded that regular Tai Chi practice can help patients with Fibromyalgia, a chronic pain condition which causes fatigue, insomnia, and depression, and impairs physical function. Ramel's most recent Sunset Tai Chi DVD focuses on the short form used in the Fibromyalgia study. Ramel has worked with the NIH since the early 1980s in bridging the gap between eastern and western healing modalities. See his Sunset TAi Chi DVD on Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/Sunset-Tai-Chi-YMAA-DVD/dp/B000W4KPD6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1282223173&sr=8-1

The simplified, short Sunset Tai Chi sequence is practiced to both the left and right to help you develop symmetry and balance. Sunset Tai Chi was created as a comprehensive introduction to authentic Tai Chi for beginners. It includes suggestions for intermediate and advanced students, to help them grow and improve over time. A full mind/body workout is presented, which can be done sitting or standing, using restoring poses from yoga, and purifying movements and meditations from qigong and tai chi, followed by the tai chi stances, drills, and form.

Sunset Tai Chi will help you to loosen and build your muscles, tendons and ligaments, improving your circulation of blood and Qi energy. The program also teaches you to find balance between strength and flexibility, counteract the effects of stress and fatigue, and regain conscious control over your health and vitality.

The Sunrise Tai Chi and Sunset Tai Chi programs present a complete mind/body regimen. Using detailed animations of the body's energy, the secrets of the ancient internal arts are taught for the first time in an easy-to-understand format.

You can learn to relax and rejuvenate yourself after a long day, incorporate mind/body exercise into your daily activities to wind down and get a full-body workout. Tai Chi helps to increase your lung capacity and increase your oxygen intake. The stretching aspect of Tai Chi helps to prevent injuries and falls.

The complex nature of Tai Chi's combined mind/body practice is known to increase the immune response and boost your natural healing of chronic conditions, including Arthritis, Fibromyalgia, Insomnia, Osteoperosis, Sarcopenia, and Cancer.

Source: http://www.pr.com