Instructor: Mary Ellen Metke is an acupuncturist by day and tai chi instructor by night. She started studying tai chi in 1980 and brought her husband, Robert McBrearty, into the study after they met.

Physical therapist Susan Welsh says that the movements in Tai Chi are helpful in addressing back pain, knee, hip and foot problems. "Motion is the lotion,” she said. That's why Welsh, director of the ...

Tai Chi is a traditional Chinese martial art originally designed as a unique self-defense technique, which later evolved into an effective health exercise. Characterized by flowing, graceful, and well ...