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Our Isle of Wight gift vouchers make a unique present for any occasion. Help make a positive step in a loved one’s life with mindful and strengthening movements.
Whether celebrating a birthday, wedding anniversary, or for Christmas and Valentines day, give the gift of Tai Chi, Qigong and Taoist meditation.
Join our Qigong classes on Monday lunchtimes in Ryde on the Isle of Wight. Learn the ancient art of integrated body movements, embodied awareness, structural efficiency, energetic sensitivity, somatic relaxation and breath work. Where movement meets mindfulness. Instructor Nicola will guide you through the class with in-depth instruction, feedback and adjustments to help support and deepen your experience. Open to all levels practising and learning together, beginners welcomed.
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Join our Qigong classes every Thursday morning in the heart of Shanklin town centre on the Isle of Wight. Qigong is the mother practice of Tai Chi. It is easier to learn than Tai Chi as a beginner and focuses on supporting health and wellbeing through movement. It is an ancient Chinese exercise system performed standing up and moving around, with slow controlled integrated body movements and coordinated breath work. Learn how to improve your posture, develop balance and stability, strengthen your muscles, stabilise the joints, mobilise your connective tissue, release physical tension and calm the mind. These sessions are open to everyone, from new beginners upwards and for all ages. Join anytime.
Join our friendly Chen Tai Chi classes in Shanklin focusing on health and wellbeing. This class is less formal than our evening Tai Chi classes. A lighter way to learn Tai Chi in a friendly community class. Develop body awareness, movement choreography, Tai Chi principles and nourishing breath work. New beginners welcome, join anytime.
Join our friendly and welcoming Chen Tai Chi classes in Ryde on the Isle of Wight. Our community group meets on Tuesday evenings at the Ryde School Upper Chine. Learn the traditional Chen Tai Chi syllabus with loosening exercises, standing practice, silk reeling exercises and form training. Develop posture and alignment awareness, movement choreography, Tai Chi principles and breath work. Instructor Nicola will guide you through the class with in-depth instruction, feedback and adjustments to help you learn, develop and digest the traditional practices. This class welcomes all levels practising and learning together, join anytime.
Come along to our weekly evening classes in Newport and learn the traditional Chen Tai Chi syllabus in a friendly and welcoming community class. We train loosening exercises, standing practice, silk reeling exercises and the Tai Chi form. Develop posture and alignment awareness, movement choreography, Tai Chi principles and breath work. Instructor Nicola will guide you through the class with in-depth instruction, feedback and adjustments to help you learn, develop and digest the traditional practices. This class welcomes all levels practising and learning together, join anytime.
Join our morning drop-in classes in Newport town centre. Open to all levels of students to practice together. These classes focus on health and wellbeing covering a variety of Tai Chi and Qigong movements. Learn how to move the body slowly whilst improving your posture, releasing tension, strengthening your muscles and settling the mind. New beginners are welcome to come along, join anytime.
Join our morning drop-in classes in Ryde on the Isle of Wight. A community class to support health and wellbeing through Tai Chi and Qigong movements. Learn how to move your body in a slow, relaxed yet powerful way, with spiralling shapes, an aligned structure, mindful breathwork and a calm mind. Open to everyone, new beginners are welcome, join anytime.
Learn Tai Chi and Qi Gong on the Isle of Wight with instructor Nicola. Available outdoors across the island and open to all ages, abilities & fitness levels. Everyone can benefit from learning the traditional movement practices. Whether you are looking for traditional form training from the Chen Tai Chi syllabus, or to learn Qigong to support recovery from ill health or injury. Instructor Nicola supports you as an individual, in a person centred way, to ensure you are working towards your movement goals.
Learn Tai Chi and Qi Gong in the Ryde studio with instructor Nicola. Open to everyone, all ages, abilities and fitness levels. Whether you are looking to learn the art of progressive relaxation with Qigong, or want to learn traditional Chen Tai Chi forms, or you live with chronic illness and would like to explore the Hibernating Bear programme. Nicola supports you as an individual with a person centred approach.
Silk reeling spirals are the foundation of traditional Chen style Tai Chi practice. Also known as Chan Si Gong; Chan (pulling), Si (silk) and Gong (skill achieved through applied effort over time). Silk reeling is a set of repetitive rotating, curving, coiling and spiralling movements combined with whole body relaxation, opening and closing movements, body alignment, rooting and breath work. This workshop will explore the art of the Tai Chi spiral and integrated body movements. Everyone welcome, all levels training together.
Join me in Ryde on the Isle of Wight for a Qigong celebration of the summer solstice 2024. Learn to release physical tension and balance the heart-mind through mindful movements, breath work and Taoist meditation. In the Chinese calendar this is the time of absolute yang, known as Xiàzhì, and marks the beginning of summer with the longest day and the shortest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. The summer solstice is the 10th solar term in the Chinese lunar calendar, beginning on the 21 June and continuing for 15 days. In ancient Chinese culture Xiàzhì is a time for festivities, family gatherings and a time for the farmers to pray to the god of agriculture for a fruitful harvest, and a time to honour their ancestors through worship. Come along to our studio in Ryde to celebrate the sun sitting over the Tropic of Cancer where it becomes the “upright pole with no shadows”.
Earth Qigong for women is a soft and powerful mindful movement routine, making it accessible to women of all ages. Draw from ancient traditions and Traditional Chinese Medicine to restore balance in the body and heart-mind. The focus is on supporting female health naturally using the internal healing and strengthening art of Qi Gong. Learn to re-align your posture, nourish through breath work, develop embodied awareness and foster the skill of listening inwardly. To aid inner healing, improve flexibility, release physical tension, level the emotions, support menopause & menstrual health, whilst fostering a calm state. Places are limited to 8 students per workshop, please book early.
The Eight Energies circle walking Qigong is an integrated mind and body movement practice exploring the 8 Trigrams through movement. The routine helps to integrate the lower and upper body through dynamic movements that loosen the joints, lengthen the connective tissue, open the lower back and mobilise the waist. Explore the art of alignment efficiency and physical release whilst harmonising the heart-mind. The external movements exercise the whole body, coiling and spiralling to help coordination and balance. Learn the art of walking the circle in this foundation level Qigong workshop open to all levels including new beginners.