{"id":12423,"date":"2016-04-14T00:14:55","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T00:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12423"},"modified":"2016-04-13T11:39:36","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T11:39:36","slug":"free-tai-chi-classes-for-all-in-alton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/free-tai-chi-classes-for-all-in-alton","title":{"rendered":"Free Tai Chi classes for all in Alton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"en-GB\">In celebration of World Tai Chi and Qigong Day, Alton&#8217;s Public Gardens in East Hampshire, will be hosting free open-to-all sessions of Tai Chi and Qigong, on 30<sup>th<\/sup> April, Saturday, run by Sue Kelly the Tai Chi tutor from East Hampshire Leisure Learning. There will be also a Tai Chi demonstration with ACA Pre-School, for pre-school children.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\">To introduce people to benefit from and learn Tai Chi or Qigong, the World Tai Chi Day was started in 1999. It is a means to improve balance and can be practised either seated or standing, which is ideal as a form of exercise for anybody in any level of fitness.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\">Tai Chi is known to help people to reduce stress, increase muscle strength, general mobility, co-ordination and improve balance. The ancient Chinese health care system of Qigong integrates breathing techniques, physical postures and focus intention. More can be found out about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.farnhamherald.com\/article.cfm?id=108720&amp;headline=Free%20Tai%20Chi%20class%20will%20be%20open%20to%20all&amp;sectionIs=news&amp;searchyear=2016\" target=\"_blank\">free classes<\/a> and classes run by Sue Kelly at East Hampshire Leisure Learning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In celebration of World Tai Chi and Qigong Day, Alton&#8217;s Public Gardens in East Hampshire, will be hosting free open-to-all sessions of Tai Chi and Qigong, on 30th April, Saturday, run by Sue Kelly the Tai Chi tutor from East Hampshire Leisure Learning. There will be also a Tai Chi demonstration with ACA Pre-School, for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freebies"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12423"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12425,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12423\/revisions\/12425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}