When I left my tai chi teacher in California to move to Asheville, North Carolina, the advice he gave me was completely unexpected. “Take a yoga class,” he said.

He explained that my hips were tight and yoga could help loosen them, allowing me to better follow the basic tai chi principle of “turning from the center.” So I enrolled in a yoga class, thinking I would get more limber and thus improve my tai chi form. But what I got was much more than that. As I began to explore deeper, I discovered that these two arts, born in India and China, work perfectly together.

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