Tai Chi Instructor

Tai Chi Instructor

Nicola Jones B.A., F.S.S.A., F.S.N., Dip.Tao.Th.

Nicola Jones is the owner of Earth Balance Tai Chi – School of Internal Arts, providing Tai Chi,  Health Qi Gong, Qi Gong for Women and Taoist Meditation courses and workshops in Horsham, Crawley, Henfield and Worthing in West Sussex, England.

Her professional history is in adult education, lecturing, tutoring, interior architecture, design and Classical Feng Shui. She has a keen interest in Taoist philosophy, conservation and sustainable living.  Her Tai Chi and internal arts school was established in Dublin, Ireland and she relocated back to her home county of West Sussex in autumn 2011.

Nicola has been practicing Tai Chi since 2006. Her own training has been in Southern Wu Short Form, Old Yang Long Form, Bagua, Chen 11 Form, Chen Laojia Old Frame, Chen 18 Form and Chen Straight Sword.  Her Qi Gong training has been in 5 Animals Qi Gong, 8 Pieces of Brocade Qi Gong, Hun Yuan Chi Gung, Earth Qi Gong for Women and Eight Energy Circle Walking.  She has regularly attended workshops from various Tai Chi elders and masters and continues to learn Tai Chi, Qi Gong and Taoist meditation. Always a student, and always much more to learn.

Master Liming Yue of the Chen Style Tai Chi Centre, Manchester, UK

• Certified Level One Instructor – Chen 11 Tai Chi Form & 5 Animals Qi Gong
• Certified Level Two Instructor – Chen Laojia Old Frame (First Section) &  8 Pieces Brocade Qi Gong

Sifu Tina Zhang of Earth Qi Gong for Women, New York, USA

• Instructor and Earth Qi Gong for Women Centre, UK

College of Management Science, London, UK

• Awarded a distinction grade as a Taoist Healing Therapist

Further Professional Details

• Full instructor membership with the Tai Chi Union in the UK
• Completed a 1 year Southern Wu Short Form instructor training programme
• PTLLS (Preparing to teach in the lifelong sector, level 4, in progress)
• Full professional and public liability insurance

Groups

• South Dublin Senior Citizens Club in 2010/2011
• Rehab Care, HOPS Centre, Dublin in 2011
• Horsham Heathers Cancer Support Group & Crawley Chrysalis Breast Cancer Support Group, Horsham May-July 2012

Talks

• Fibromyalgia Support Group Horsham, January 2012
• Horsham Heathers Cancer Support Group & Crawley Chrysalis Breast Cancer Support Group, Horsham 12 March 2012

In Nicola’s own words

“Tai Chi began as something I would do to help relax my mind and body to becoming an essential part of my daily life.  I used to be active in sports and found Tai Chi and Chi Gung a great way to recover physically and mentally from endurance training .  A number of years ago due to injury and ill-health, I could no longer continue exercising as I wished.  Everything had to change.  It was then that I turned to the internal arts of Tai Chi, Chi Gung and Taoist meditation as a vital part of my recovery and later on, management of my conditions. What I didn’t expect was to benefit from my changed routine so much, that I moved away completely from competitive sports and focused my training purely on the Chinese internal arts of Tai Chi and Chi Gung.

My experience of Tai Chi for health was so powerful that it led me to become an instructor.  I wanted to share my experiences of these practices, how beneficial they have been for my own condition.  As the wise say ‘movement is medicine’.  I am a forever student, always looking to learn from others, keen to absorb and discover more about the internal arts.  I love my own training and am always practicing and developing. Tai Chi and Qi Gong really are life arts, and one’s that I love.”

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