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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.
For students looking to study via our online video school library, the Mountain Patreon tier gives access to our Chen Tai Chi, Qigong and Taoist meditation library. Watch our online classes via video on demand anytime on any device. Livestream recordings are in 1080p HD.
Discover your health potential with Qigong from the comfort of your own home in our weekly class on Patreon. Learn how to concentrate the mind, release physical holdings, develop body sensitivity, move gracefully, grow strong and improve resilience. Dip into the world of dynamic relaxation whilst aligning the body, and breathing deeply, it is a profound way to move with mindfulness. These classes will draw on Qigong movements from a variety of routines and sets, with weekly themes to help deepen your practice. Everyone welcome.
The Hibernating Bear video programme includes seated and standing movements, guiding you through gentle tension relief, physical relaxation and meditation techniques. Give momentum to self-care, boost your mental health and support your physical body with kindness. Open to everyone, for all abilities, for all ages especially those living with chronic health, chronic pain and chronic fatigue, senior citizens, and anybody who would like to nourish the mind and body through relaxing movement and stillness. Beginners welcome to join.
Are you over bendy, living with a hypermobile syndrome or Ehlers Danlos? Want to learn how to support your unique hypermobile body and nourish your mental health? Join my community of students to gain access to video classes, information articles, support and connection. Learn mindful Tai Chi and Qigong movements along with nourishing stillness practices from the comfort of your own home. Take a positive step to improve your quality of life, building physical resilience and increasing the ability to cope.
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.
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.
Learn a powerful women’s medical Qi Gong routine via Zoom. Balance your energy, spirit and emotions through aligning the posture and breathing deeply with focused awareness. Designed to improve female health and wellbeing using the internal healing and strengthening art of Qi Gong and Traditional Chinese Medicine. Learn effective techniques in the comfort of your own home.
Welcome to the ‘Eight Pieces of Brocade Qigong for Beginners’ video course. A foundation level routine that is a great introduction to Qigong as a movement system. Learn the movement choreography, structural alignment and applied relaxation. Develop your Qigong movements at your own pace and from the comfort of your home.
Welcome to the ‘Five Animals Chair Qigong for Beginners’ video masterclass. A foundation routine introducing Qigong as a movement practice through the postures of the five animals: Tiger, Deer, Bear, Monkey, and Bird. This class is adapted for seated practice to accommodate individuals with reduced mobility.
Instructor Nicola has been a regular Tai Chi and Qigong blogger since 2010. This E-Book is a collection of her Tai Chi, Qigong and meditation musings, covering the learning process, expectations, principles and movements. Purchase of this book helps support this website and is an opportunity to read all of the articles in a formatted way without advertisements.
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”.
Join me virtually on Zoom for Qigong, nourishing breath work and Taoist meditation near the winter solstice 2024. Learn relaxing movement and stillness techniques to foster a calm state and release physical tension. Dip into the world of internal cultivation practices for health, happiness and longevity.
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Renew – Grow – Blossom
Welcome the arrival of spring with an energising and awakening Qigong masterclass live on Zoom. We are gathering one day after the equinox on Friday, 21 March, at 10am GMT to explore Soma Dao Qigong, with a focus on nourishing the liver and strengthening the wood element. Through graceful movements, intentional breathing, and Taoist practice, to align with the vitality of spring. Shed tension, enhance your mobility, and restore balance as we embrace this season of growth and renewal.
Join me in my virtual studio on the autumn equinox to celebrate this wonderful relaxed time of mellowing, contracting and softening. Follow along with Soma Dao Qigong movements and breath work techniques that help strengthen the lungs / metal element in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Take time out to help loosen physical tension and mobilise the body whilst changing gears down into a centred and balanced state of being. This class is for anyone looking for a healthy dose of self care!