Mendes, Maria Isabel Brandão de SouzaCruz, Erick Xavier Costa2019-07-032022-06-152019-07-032022-06-152019-06-24CRUZ, Erick Xavier Costa. Cuidados com a saúde e o Tai chi chuan. 2019. 32 f. Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso (Graduação em Educação Física) - Departamento de Educação Física, Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, RN, 2019https://repositorio.ufrn.br/handle/123456789/48048Introduction: Tai Chi Chuan is an oriental millenarian martial art that propagates as an expression of the balance between the vital forces and the nature where the human is also characterized as an integrant, for this reason, is directly associated on its essence with health and longevity. General Objective: To discuss Tai Chi Chuan's ways to collaborate at health and to list the contributions to Physical Education. Specific Objective: Identify how Tai Chi Chuan participants perceive health benefits from their experience; to point out the importance of this experience for Physical Education. Justification: Due to have no studies focused on the subjectivity when they voluntarily adhere to the practices, being a high prevalence of quantitative studies focused on health ideals in the biologicist reductionist view, so it turns necessary to have a greater understanding of these individual conceptions in order to contribute to physical education by correlating the production of knowledge with the humanities. Discussion: It was noticed that many are the reasons that lead the subjects to adhere to the practices, however, when immersed in this, some aspects such as physical, mental and spiritual well-being have shown themselves to converge over the years, changing or constructing new conceptions of health to the participants. Conclusion: It was observed that Tai Chi Chuan, for the participants, is a tool to protect the anguishes provided to the existence of being and possesses the capacity of metanoia to the individuals, making them more active and with a greater awareness to respect for its health and its correlation with the environment in which it is inserted, this practice is also a voracious tool that physical education professionals have in their scope to promote a better life with quality to users.Tai Chi ChuanSaúdeEducação FísicaPrática CorporalQualidade de VidaHealthPEBody PracticeQuality of LifebachelorThesis