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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.
For students wishing to purely study from the Tai Chi, Qigong and Taoist meditation video course and audio resources in our school library. The Mountain Patreon subscription tier gives access to our video and audio resource library. Watch 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 Zoom. 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 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.
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.
Learn the eight postures in a circle walking Qi Gong and discover the energies of the eight trigrams in Taoist philosophy. There are many health benefits of circle walking, from helping to balance emotions, connecting the upper and lower body, increase circulation, help create more energy and harmonise the activities of the brain and heart.
Learn the popular Ba Duan Jin Qigong routine over this 8 week video course. A foundation level routine for all levels. New beginners are especially encouraged to join this course, as it is one of the easiest routines to learn and is a great introduction to Qigong as a movement system. Learn the movement choreography, structural alignment and applied relaxation. Currently the live classes on Zoom for this Qigong routine are on pause. You can study the course via videos as below.
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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.
An introduction to the ancient Qigong routine of the ‘Five Animals’, known as Wu Qin Xi. Join our online livestream covering the 10 animal postures over a 6 week course. Learn to imitate the animals characteristics and movements for health preservation. This Qi Gong routine is dated circa 25-220 A.D., with the source attributed to Hua Tuo, a Classical Chinese Medicine doctor from the Eastern Han Dynasty. Beginners welcome to join, open to all levels to practice together. Join anytime, each lesson is a stand alone class.
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”.