Juanita Praeg, PhD, practices and teaches Wu Style Tai Chi Chuan, following the MaJiangbao lineage. Forms include: the Short Form, the Slow Long Form and the Fast Form.

Wu style Tai Chi is learnt and practised with slowness as a guiding principle to generate flow, clarity of intention, activating a form of meditative awareness to the mind-body. In a culture of speed, Tai Chi teaches us to slow down and explore other ways of being. 

This slowness cultivates an internal listening energy (Tin Jing) that builds the capacity to feel the sensation of movement, breath, the physical connection that fosters nervous system neuroplasticity, somatic resetting and encoding new muscular patterns in the body-mind. 

Tai Chi practice assists in balancing, transforming and cultivating a vitality of energy in the body-mind. It is a powerful modality for assisting emotional responsiveness and supporting self-healing processes. It activates and trains the deep listening required to perceive flow as an embodied principle which develops responsiveness and adaptability as opposed to reactive, push-back response patterns to fear, trauma and body armour. 

This potent practise fosters relaxation, clarity, reflexivity, and equilibrium.

Juanita has worked at Universities, retreat centres and has her own thriving personal healing practice that she runs from a small town called Villiersdorp, found at the base of a mountain range in South Africa.