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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.
Learn traditional Chen Tai Chi from the comfort of your own home with our online classes via Zoom. Our lessons give momentum to your home practice. Learn movement and stillness principles, body mechanics, silk reeling and form movements. Bring your quality of Tai Chi to life with our virtual classes. Everyone welcome.
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 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 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.
Learn Chen style Tai Chi from the comfort of your own home via Zoom with instructor Nicola. Progress through the Chen Tai Chi syllabus at your own pace and develop authentic Tai Chi movements and skills. Learn the signature Chen style body mechanics, principles of movement, silk reeling drills, Zhan Zhuang and the empty hand forms. This online private class is for the type of person who enjoys being engaged in the learning process and active in their training.
Learn Chen style Tai Chi silk reeling energy exercises via Zoom with instructor Nicola. This series of repetitive spiralling qigong movements develop integrated strength, body awareness, unity in movement, co-ordination, stability, balance, dynamic relaxation, grounding and breath work. They are the foundation movement of Chen style Tai Chi and are also known as Chan Si Gong. The movements are a great training ground to develop the principles of movement and body mechanics of Chen style.
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.
Learn Qi Gong exercises in the comfort of your own home in a private lesson that is tailored to your needs, physical ability and learning style. Discover a variety of healthy movements that combine the theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) with an aligned posture, focused movement and deep breathing. Dating from around 2-5000 years ago, Qi Gong (the modern name for Dao Yin) is a movement and exercise practice that helps to support health and wellbeing. Make a positive step to improve your personal health and wellbeing.
Learn to manage your health baseline with gentle and dynamic Tai Chi and Qi Gong movements. Hibernating Bear Tai Chi is for those living with chronic illness, degenerative health, during injury recovery, living with a different baseline from the norm, senior citizens and the elderly. These lessons are tailored individually to your physical ability, to help improve your quality of life. Classes are held on Zoom, or in our studio in Ryde, or outdoors across the Isle of Wight. Read about instructor Nicola’s own personal journey with chronic health.
“Every movement I make in my practice has purpose, focus, principles and alignment. I meet each day no matter how challenging with hope and perseverance. My aim is to show people that there are other routes to improved health and wellbeing, rather than reliance on allopathic medicine and our crumbling health service. Healthy, frequent and accurate Tai Chi/Qigong movements are a key part of my life and I hope that I can inspire others with my passion and dedication.” Nicola.
Learn Tai Chi, Qi Gong or Taoist meditation from wherever you live in the world. This distance learning format is for students who live in a time zone that is outside of our UK schedule. You will learn remotely via personalised videos uploaded to the Tai Chi cloud. You will be the type of person who enjoys working from a range of resources, is engaged in the learning process, is self led in your practice and happy videoing your progression. If you enjoy a challenge and like being active in your training, this is for you.