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Watch a 19-minute lecture exploring how Tai Chi, the ancient Chinese martial art, can be leveraged as a therapeutic tool through Eastern Medicine and Taoist perspectives. Discover why this gentle movement practice has gained worldwide recognition for treating chronic diseases, pain, mental health issues, and cognitive decline across all age groups. Learn about the limitations of current Western psychoneuroimmunological explanations of Tai Chi's benefits and explore an alternative analytical framework based on Eastern Medicine and Taoist principles. Understand how combining Eastern and Western approaches could lead to more targeted and effective Tai Chi-based treatments while maximizing health outcomes. Presented by Dr. Jacqueline C. Shin, Associate Professor of Psychology at Indiana State University, whose expertise spans visual attention, sequence learning, skill development across lifespans, and cognitive function in neurodegenerative conditions.
