CK Chu Tai Chi has been part of Times Square since 1973, carrying forward a long-established tradition of Taoist internal practice in the heart of New York. Founded by Master Chu, the school served for 41 years as the center of his teaching, training, and writing, and it continues to teach his Tai Chi system in keeping with that legacy. Over the decades, it has instructed thousands of students and trained many champions through an approach rooted in ancient methods of internal self-cultivation.
The school’s work is organized around four core disciplines that reflect a comprehensive understanding of Tai Chi as both an art and a lifelong practice. Tai Chi form provides the structural foundation, while Nei Kung develops the internal qualities that support strength, alignment, and energy cultivation. Eternal Spring Chi Kung™ extends that internal training through focused breath and movement work, and meditation completes the curriculum with an emphasis on stillness, awareness, and deeper refinement.
Together, these disciplines shape a method that treats Tai Chi not as a single exercise, but as an integrated path of development. Health and self-defense remain central to the school’s teaching. That dual emphasis gives the practice both practical purpose and depth: physical training is inseparable from discipline, internal balance, and cultivated attention.
The enduring continuity of Master Chu’s system gives CK Chu Tai Chi a distinct character—one formed by decades of instruction, a serious commitment to tradition, and a sustained belief in Tai Chi Chuan as a vehicle for personal cultivation. In a city defined by motion and intensity, the school has maintained a steady presence, offering a disciplined internal art with roots that reach back through Taoist practice and a history that stretches across generations of students.
CK Chu Tai
156 W 44th St
New York, NY 10036
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