Intelligent Strength & Ageless Movement
Through precise, flowing movement, Tai Chi develops joint stability, balance, and resilience that enhances performance and prevents injury. For younger bodies, it sharpens coordination and recovery; for older bodies, it preserves structural mobility, confidence, and long-term independence.
Mental Clarity & Nervous System Mastery
In a fast, overstimulated world, Tai Chi trains you to stay calm, focused, and fully present regulating the nervous system, reducing stress, and sharpening awareness. One gains an edge in focus and emotional control, while supporting memory, cognition, and inner calm.
Internal Energy, Vital Health & Longevity
Tai Chi cultivates your internal energy—Qi—the foundation of vitality and longevity. Practice leaves you energized, centered, and deeply connected. Younger students feel greater stamina and flow; older practitioners experience improved circulation, better sleep, and a renewed sense of life force.
QiGong & Tai Chi
QiGong is a simple, meditative practice that builds and balances your internal energy, helping you reduce stress, boost vitality, and support healing.
Tai Chi is flowing martial art in motion that generates energy through movement rather than by force, developing strength, balance, mental focus, and graceful, lifelong, mobility.
Traditional Yang Style Long Form Tai Chi
In 1998, I was introduced to the classical Yang Style Long form in 1998 from Grandmaster Yang Zhenduo and his grandson Master Yang Jun.
The is the form I teach today!
Grandmaster Yang Zhenduo
Grandmaster Yang Zhenduo (1926–2020) was the 4th-generation lineage holder of traditional Yang-style Tai Chi in China. He dedicated his life to preserving and spreading authentic Tai Chi worldwide, founding an International Association and being recognized as one of China’s top Tai Chi masters.
Grandmaster Yang Jun
Grandmaster Yang Jun, grandson of Yang Zhenduo, trained from early childhood by his grandfather and now leads the transmission of the Yang family system, bringing authentic Tai Chi to all around the world.
The Internal Structure of Tai Chi
Master Mantak Chia’s approach to the inner structure of Tai Chi goes beyond external form, focusing on the body as an integrated energy system. His teaching emphasizes spinal alignment, rooted posture, and the opening of internal pathways for movement to be guided by an ever-present "life-force" rather than muscular force. Focus is on an internal awareness, connecting breath, mind, and body into a living practice of energy cultivation, healing, and inner power.
Richard Anton Diaz is a master Tai Chi instructor and longevity-focused movement specialist with over five decades of professional experience. Certified in Tai Chi and Iron Shirt Qigong through the Universal Healing Tao System and continues as a practitioner and teacher of the classical Yang Style Tai Chi lineage.
His teaching translates classical Eastern practices into a clear, results-oriented methodology designed for the Western mind—supporting balance, posture, stress regulation, and lifelong vitality.
A former World Champion Ballroom and Latin dance, Richard twice represented the United States at world competitions. He, with his student, Professor Joy Hirsch, a renowned scientist and Professor at Yale University, continues to compete professionally at age 75 being the oldest, active, professional dance competitor in the field.
About Richard Anton Diaz
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