Tai Chi Chuan: análise do aspecto da espiritualidade e corporeidade em uma revisão integrativa

Abstract

This work aims to present the practice of Tai Chi Chuan in a broader perspective than just the execution of the movements. To summarize the primordial Taoist principle of the exercise of concentration and breathing in the search for vital energy in integration with the whole. Since the individual is inserted in a fragmented mechanistic world, overcoming the paradigm of the Western worldview to construct this integral body. To this extent, it is necessary to expand the field of analysis, academic that encompasses the spiritualist, introspective/meditative character that Tai Chi Chuan entails so that, over time, it does not mold itself into a hybrid Brazilian identity for consumption. In the integrative review carried out on Google Scholar and Capes Journals between 2021 and 2024, it is noted that most of the works address the practices as a low-impact exercise, some works, however, prove significant improvements in health and quality of life, with the constancy of the practice of Tai Chi Chuan, especially among the elderly. This is possibly due to the attention that Chinese practices give to the individual and not to his illness. Finally, I emphasize that the millennial practice is rescuing its link with Taoism without necessarily being linked to religion, but through an autonomous search of the individual with the experience of the transcendent.