Tai Chi Yoga

08/25/2025

TAI CHI YOGA STARTING NEXT WEEK: Enroll today for either the beginning (Tuesday Sept 2nd) or the advanced (Thursday Sept 4th) 8 week course starting next week. $70 enrollment fee. 125 N State in Fairview. 7-8pm. To register, text or email John at (801) 712-4569 or johncharlesneubauer@gmail.com. EVEN MORE FUN WITH A FRIEND OR FAMILY MEMBER.

08/22/2025

THE IMPORTANCE OF BALANCING: Even bears do it!

08/12/2025

08/05/2025

THE RWANDAN TAI CHI YOGA WORKSHOP: An inspiring and humbling experience conducting a 2-hour workshop last Saturday to all ages (10-74) from all over the world at the Kigali (Rwanda) Wellness Hub, one of the city’s most prestigious.

07/28/2025

Teaching Tai Chi Yoga in a street corner in Rwanda.

07/15/2025

TEACHING URECA YOUTH: Last week I had the privilege of teaching Tai Chi Yoga to 100 high school students on the Snow Colege campus. They are associated with the Utah Rural Electric Cooperative Association. And come from across the state.

07/11/2025

TAI CHI YOGA IN RWANDA: Thanks to a small grant from Snow College, I will be going to Rwanda next week to teach interested Rwandans Tai Chi Yoga. The grant is for the purpose of teaching people whose native language is not English, given that Snow has a number of international students. Stay tuned for photos from this beautiful central eastern African country.

07/01/2025

WHAT DOES IT MEAN? The title of my new forthcoming book is CONNECTING SOULS: DANCING WTIH TAI CHI YOGA. Some are asking what that means. To dance with Tai Chi Yoga is for two people to be doing movements in close proximity to each other without touching. As they do so, their spirits can more closely connect in ways the book will describe. (Photo of Snow College student Elizabeth Carroll and John for the book).

06/24/2025

THOUGHTS RE: STANDING UP STRAIGHT: This Wall Street Journal article makes a compelling case for why we should stand up straight and not slouch. The problem is that almost all people who stand up straight do so with straight stiff legs like the photo in the article. Doing so contributes to lower back problems over time. The solution is to have a straight suspended spine, but to keep one's knees slightly bent as learned in Tai Chi - thereby shifting the support of the spine to the thighs and easing stress on the lower back.

Slouching is bad for both your physical and emotional health. It’s never too late to start paying attention.

06/18/2025

COMING SOON: In the coming months, my latest book "CONNECTING SOULS: DANCING WITH TAI CHI YOGA" will be published. Here is an excerpt from the book's Introduction: "Divorce rates are at their highest in U.S. history. Couples are living together for shorter periods of time. Relationships too often seem to fizzle before they have time to cement. Social media makes it easier for people avoid forming close personal bonds from being in physical proximity with each other. Physical “hookups” are becoming more common, but lasting relationships evolving from those hookups are rarer. Friendships too often lack a deep connection, centered more around the specifics of what two people have in common instead of a true connection of their spirits. How do we connect with others? We hold each other. We look at each other. We listen to that being said. We spend time together by going places, eating out together, working together, and sharing common interests. We show respect and kindness to others. Despite people wanting to be and feel connected to those closest to them, the result is that too many couples, relationships, and friendships are feeling more isolated from each other. What can be done to reverse this trend? Connecting souls by dancing with Tai Chi Yoga..."

06/11/2025

WHY TWISTING: In the same way we twist a towel to squeeze water out of it, the spine needs to twist each day to squeeze tension and stiffness out of it; to increase its flexibility; and to avoid or defer back problems for years into the future. What's hard to see in the photo is that the twist is done with the shoulders and upper spine twisting to the right and with the hips and lower spine twisting to the left - creating the desired squeezing-out of tension and stiffness.

06/04/2025

TAI CHI YOGA IN NATURE: Time to enjoy with a friend.