“Tai Ji Quan is an investment for a healthy future, a great way to stay in shape and it’s fun!”

Regular practice of both Tai Ji and Qi Gong promotes postural alignment in both still and dynamic movement, muscle tone, improved balance and co-ordination, deep relaxation, body awareness and the dissolving of residual tension, In addition, practice develops good co-ordination, strengthens the legs and torso, opens the joints and spine and promotes general flexibility. Finally regular practice also promotes a healthy heart, good circulation, efficient respiration, detoxification and a more robust immune system.

• High resolution postural development and correction, through both skeletal muscle control and connective tissue release. This will improve core stability and initiate basic balance training. Eventually, students will completely re-programme walking and standing.
• Lengthen muscles as you train them, allowing for greater agility as well as strength.
• Improve the circulation of blood and lymph whilst the internal organs are conditioned, nourishing the body and cleansing internal debris. Abdominal breathing boosts blood oxygenation by increasing the internal volume available during respiration, as well as fine tuning the action of the diaphragm.
• Boost, refine and learn to control your Qi, which in turn raises your awareness and powers your immune system (Qi is blocked by tension. That is why stress makes you sick). This is a Meditational process and it aspires towards quiescence and inner peace. Here you will sharpen your senses and focus your mind whilst dissolving inner stress and tuning the body’s natural mechanisms
• Dissolve both shallow and deep seated stress by gradually identifying and releasing gross and then finer residual tensions held by the muscles and connective tissues.
• Learn to resolve conflict by transforming it into art. Use softness to overcome hardness. Yielding not forcing. Be like water. Crashing or flowing. Study this philosophy through ‘Pushing Hands” and the martial side of Tai Ji, and learn to apply it in other aspects of your life.