T'ai Chi
Class timetables and pricesTai chi is a wonderful antidote to a busy and stressful life and is also excellent for many older people. Stemming from Taoist philosophy, tai chi has many aspects: a system of health, medicine, physical co-ordination, relaxation, self-defence, consciousness-raising, exercise and self-development. It is an 'Internal martial art' where the soft overcomes the hard, just as the tremendous power of water can overcome hard matter.
Benefits of Tai Chi
The only one way to experience the benefits of Tai Chi is to practice, this strengthens body, organs and constitution, relaxes mind and body, lowers blood pressure, improves balance, coordination and physical confidence, improves flexibility of joints, has cardio-vascular benefits, stimulates physical awareness and can be a vehicle for self-discovery.
Subha
is a qualified mindfulness instructor. She has a Post-Graduate Diploma in Mindfulness-Based Approaches from Bangor University. This included modules in the practice and teaching of mindful movement and sitting meditation.
Subha has been practising T’ai Chi for more than a decade by attending weekly classes with her teacher Guhyananda and developing her own practice and has taught mindful movement based on T’ai Chi on retreats and she has many years experience as a meditation teacher.
Subha will be combining her experience of T’ai Chi and her mindfulness training in the T’ai Chi classes she is going to teach.
See Subha’s website for more information www.taichi4health.org.uk
About the T’ai Chi Style
Guhyananda’s teacher was a Chinese master called Rose Li who established a form called Peking Style. She also said it is ‘Natural T’ai Chi for Health’. It is an Internal Martial Art which means, that although during the classes you will learn this T’ai Chi form from Subha, there will also be time for you to explore your own experience of moving mindfully. Each week you will learn a new section of the form and you will be encouraged to practice it in your own time before the next class.
Rose Li said, ‘The “being” is more important than the form’. She would often emphasis that external forms were not the main point. Her aim was for students to ‘get the interior part’.
For information about Rose Li and Peking Style go to http://www.miss-li.org.uk/
www.taichi4health.org.uk
Subha is a qualified mindfulness instructor. She has a Post-Graduate Diploma in Mindfulness-Based Approaches from Bangor University. This included modules in the practice and teaching of mindful movement and sitting meditation.
Subha has been practising T’ai Chi for more than a decade by attending weekly classes with her teacher Guhyananda and developing her own practice.
Subha has taught mindful movement based on T’ai Chi on retreats and she has many years experience as a meditation teacher.
Subha will be combining her experience of T’ai Chi and her mindfulness training in the T’ai Chi classes she is going to teach.
See Subha’s website for more information www.taichi4health.org.uk
About the T’ai Chi Style
Guhyananda’s teacher was a Chinese master called Rose Li who established a form called Peking Style. She also said it is ‘Natural T’ai Chi for Health’. It is an Internal Martial Art which means, that although during the classes you will learn this T’ai Chi form from Subha, there will also be time for you to explore your own experience of moving mindfully. Each week you will learn a new section of the form and you will be encouraged to practice it in your own time before the next class.
Rose Li said, ‘The “being” is more important than the form’. She would often emphasis that external forms were not the main point. Her aim was for students to ‘get the interior part’.
For information about Rose Li and Peking Style go to http://www.miss-li.org.uk/
