Course Description

This is a mindfulness-based course that integrates Tai Chi and meditation techniques to reduce stress and focus clearly on what matters most to your clients. Tai Chi is a very relaxing moving meditation that helps clients to focus on the soft free-flowing movements and takes the focus off negative thoughts.  The clients will learn to create a balance between life issues, relaxation, and meditation. You will learn how to use 13 Tai Chi forms as a guided meditation. The forms can be learned and practiced standing, sitting, or moving. The training video teaches you how to do each form, and there are demonstrations on how to use the forms as a guided meditation.


The course consists of four modules. You will complete a test at the end of the course and will receive CEs and a certificate. I hope you enjoy the course.

Course Objectives

  • Analyze research on Tai Chi’s impact on depression and anxiety and articulate what this means for its use in clinical practice.

  • Model the postures and movements of Tai Chi to guide clients in a moving meditation.

  • Establish the role of the Vagus nerve in reducing anxiety and communicate how Tai Chi can be used in-session to stimulate it.

  • Incorporate Tai Chi movements with meditation techniques to anchor the attention of stressed clients.

  • Articulate how Tai Chi can be individualized for physically limited clients and communicate how there modifications can promote more effective participation in therapy.

  • Characterize how clinical tools that increase self-awareness can be used in therapy to help clients better manage their thoughts, emotions, and behaviors.

Course Outcomes

After taking my course on Integrating Tai Chi into Your Clinical Practice, you will be able to use Tai Chi to add interesting meditative activities, and fun and energy into your sessions. You will become familiar with the latest research that supports the use of Tai Chi as a clinical intervention. You will be introduced to different easy-to-learn Tai Chi postures and movements that help to reduce stress and lessen symptoms of anxiety and depression. You will learn to rejuvenate your treatment plans with a moving meditation that is appropriate for all ages.

After successfully completing the course and passing the exam, you will earn 6CEs.
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Course Milestones

Become familiar with research on Tai Chi as a clinical intervention

  • Benefits and limitations
    • Physical, emotional, and mental

  • The role of the Vagus nerve
  • Interdisciplinary research from the fields of psychology and sociology


Making Tai Chi Postures Easy and Natural for your clients

  • Learn 13 basic postures of Tai Chi
  • Yang Style-free flowing meditative movements
  • Regulated breathing
  • Step-by-step instructions

Incorporate Tai Chi into your Treatment Plans for Depression and Anxiety

  • Three ways to use Tai Chi to relieve symptoms of depression (using movement, meditation, and breath work)
  • Nonjudgmental observation of internal thoughts
  • Process intervention with clients
  • Demonstration and experiential exercise (i.e., moving from passive to active participation)

Use Tai Chi as a Meditative Movement Intervention

  • Anchor attention
  • Experience negative events without focusing on negative self-talk and pre-judgments
  • Demonstration and experiential exercise


Adapt Tai Chi to Help Control Addictive Cravings

  • Identify addictive cravings
  • Disengage from automatic thoughts and triggers
  • Adapt Tai Chi to reduce cravings
  • Demonstration of interventions and experiential exercise

FAQ

  • How long do I have access for?

    On purchase of the course you will have access to all course materials for 1 year.

  • Do I receive a certificate?

    Yes, on successful completion of all course materials you will receive a certificate.

  • How many CEs do I receive?

    On successful completion of the course you will receive 6 CEs from the NBCC.

  • How can I pay?

    You can pay via PayPal by clicking on the buttons above. The course is USD $90.

  • Can I pay by credit card?

    Yes, just click on the buy button and you will have the option to pay via credit card or your PayPal account.