A Different Kind of Tai Chi & Chi Gung...

Shintaikido Style

Tai Chi & Chi Gung

in Pacifica, California

With Shintaikido Kaiso (founder) Dave Bendigkeit

Personal (private) Instruction Only 

No Group Classes

Ki-Works               Shintaikido

Taught as a Meditative Movement Art

and an Energy Awareness Art

Health - Balance - Energy - Centering

Shintaikido Style Tai Chi & Chi Gung can provide many health benefits. 

Shintaikido Chi Gung involves simple movements combined with breathing. 

This can help to improve your health & energy. 

Shintaikido Style Tai Chi is the natural progression of our Chi Gung into a beautiful meditative art. 

This dual system is great for people of all ages and is taught in a relaxed, easy to learn manner.

What are the benefits of Shintaikido Style Tai Chi & Chi Gung?

Most people do Tai Chi and Chi Gung for the health benefits achieved through the movements. The traditional benefits include improved balance, endurance, agility, stress reduction, and relaxation and meditation. 

The Essential Difference

 of Shintaikido Style Tai Chi & Chi Gung

Shintaikido Style Chi Gung is a series of slow hand and foot movements with proper breathing, that can help to improve your health & energy. Shintaikido Style Tai Chi Chuan is the natural progression of Chi Gung into a beautiful Meditative Art for use and infusion into your daily life. This art is taught in a relaxed, easy to learn manner. We begin with standing meditation,  and then, building a foundation with Chi Gung & basic principles, we flow into our 13 Tai Chi movements. Shintaikido Style Tai Chi brings the art to a new level with improvement in breathing, grounding, centering, extension of chi, meditation and more, allowing the training to reach a far deeper level of healing and a greater increase in chi power.

Your work is presented in a clear, easily learned, and useable manner.

Here is a letter I received a few years ago from one of my students regarding the benefits of Shintaikido Style Tai Chi & Chi Gung. 

This kind of result is far more important to me than being able to perform thousands of movements "perfectly".

Back Problems?   Testimonial Letter from Student

Hi Sensei,     

 I just wanted to drop you a note about the benefits I have received from taking Tai Chi. I had back surgery on 4/20/2000 and have been taking medicine on and off for the pain since the surgery. I have a demanding job in plumbing and heating and since I have taken the classes before work I can feel the difference. I have stopped taking medicine since I started the classes the beginning of January. I can't wait to get all the forms down for even more benefits. Thank you for making my life better Dave.                  

Ron Sheehy, Pacifica, CA

 Easy To Learn Shintaikido Style Tai Chi & Chi Gung

The lessons start with basic principles - how to sit and stand with correct posture, how to move the hands and feet, developing awareness of center and energy (chi) feel. Next, you learn each individual "movement". These have fanciful names like “Embrace the Moon”, “Opening the Window to View the Moon”, and “Grasping the Sparrow’s Tail”. Next, we put the movements together into a “form”. There are 13 basic "movements" As the students progress, we add more individual movements. Throughout the training, you will participate in essential Energy Work as outlined above. Finally, people learn to create their own form. It’s great fun and very fulfilling.

Combining my years with Robert Nadeau Shihan, Dr. Chi-Hsiu Weng taught me the essence of Tai Chi through Chang style. This means that the main lessons are the principles of balance, yin-yang, chi, alignment, internal and external forces, and of course, movement. Using this approach allows the student to get to the core of the matter quickly. Shintaikido Tai Chi & Chi Gung are applications of these meditative aspects. I teach my students to use the forms that they learn as a basic vocabulary for self-expression. Yes, there is a standard of form which is taught, and performing the form correctly is important. However, the principles of Tai Chi are far more important than the form itself. I have found that forms which become written in stone are no longer alive. This is Shintaikido Tai Chi. 

Chi Gung at Shintaikido of Pacifica

The principles of Shintaikido Chi Gung were taught to me by Robert Nadeau Sensei of Aikido, Sifu Andy Ching of Sil Lum Fut Ga  and Sifu Andy's teacher, Sifu Arthur Lee of Sil Lum Fut Ga. My Chi Gung teaching is based on the Eight Golden Exercises as taught by Sifu Arthur Lee along with Aikido Ki exercises from Robert Nadeau Sensei, and Taoist Chi Gung exercises from Sifu Andy Ching. The student learns Shintaikido Chi Gung principles of breathing, centering, rooting into the earth, chi movement, and chi strengthening.

Accepting Private Students

650-296-2156

Cost is currently $50.00 per half hour

Classes at Shintaikido of Pacifica

In addition to Private Lessons in Shintaikido Style Tai Chi & Chi Gung training, Sensei Dave Bendigkeit offers regular group classes in Shintaikido,  Kajukenbo, Ninja Turtles (4 & 5 year olds), Shintaikido Rangers (6 & 7 year olds), along with Ki-Works Energy & Shintaikido Meridian Therapy workshops. Classes for men, women and children are available at Shintaikido of Pacifica in Eureka Square Shopping Center: 650-355-7661.

150 Eureka Square Shopping Center, Pacifica, CA 94044      650-355-7661           Sensei Dave Bendigkeit

mailto:kaiso@shintaikido.com