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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 traditional Zhan Zhuang / standing like a tree practice via Zoom with instructor Nicola. The foundation practice of Tai Chi and Qigong, rooted in Taoism. Learn how to align your posture, soften and release physical tension whilst breathing deeply with mind intent. Develop integrated muscle strength whilst standing still. With step by step development of the principles and body method. Give your standing practice a boost with this 121 class.
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.
Learn movement and stillness practices to help manage the symptoms of chronic pain. The Hibernating Bear Tai Chi syllabus has been specifically designed by instructor Nicola for those living with a different health baseline from the norm. This 10 week ‘private tuition’ course covers a variety of techniques that give insight into natural ways to aid the physical and psychological impact of living with chronic pain.
Instructor Nicola has distilled her professional Tai Chi, Qigong and meditation experience along with her research and personal experience living with chronic and acute pain to create this unique course. The course content will be guided by you, your baseline, your pacing and your needs. Take a gentle yet powerful step towards personal health and wellbeing.
Learn effective methods to calm the mind and relax the body, from nourishing breath work, meditation for self compassion, to Taoist meditation practices. Join the class via Zoom and learn at your own pace, guided throughout by meditation instructor Nicola. These lessons are open to everyone, new beginners welcomed.
A beginners Chen Tai Chi video course to start your Tai Chi journey. With six video lessons that provide detailed instruction of the choreography, method and body alignment. Join me, instructor Nicola in my virtual studio, teaching from my home to yours. Learn the Chen 5 elements & 4 corners form. Designed for new students who enjoy a challenge and would like to learn from the comfort of their 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 my beginners Chen Tai Chi silk reeling video course. Learn the signature movement of Chen Tai Chi known as Chan Si Gong with me, instructor Nicola. You will be taken step by step through the foundation methods of body alignment, spirals and rotations, and choreography. Develop your Tai Chi movements at your own pace and from the comfort of your home.
Welcome to my traditional Chen Tai Chi short form course. Join me, instructor Nicola from my virtual studio and learn from the comfort of your own home. Delve into the world of an aligned posture, body mechanics and silk reeling spirals. Follow along with detailed instruction and common adjustments. Designed for students who enjoy a challenge.
Welcome to my 12 week Earth Qigong for Women video course. Join me, instructor Nicola from my virtual studio and learn from the comfort of your own home. Follow along with 15 hours of in depth instruction, exploring body alignment and movement principles. The video recordings are taken from our latest livestream course in 2023. Suitable for new beginners.
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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Learn a variety of breathing practices that aid health, relaxation, focus and grounding. In ancient Eastern cultures breathing is seen as fundamental to life-long health. Oxygen is vital to a healthy mind and body. Learn how to bring more oxygen into all body systems, how to switch on your natural relaxation response and how to improve toxin removal from your body. It’s all in the breath!
In ancient Eastern cultures breathing is seen as fundamental to life-long health. This has become lost in the modern world, leaning more on pharmaceutical companies to provide us with ‘better health’. Learning to breathe more effectively can have a profound effect on how all of the systems in our body function. Oxygen intake is vital to staying alive. In this meditation session you will learn to breathe correctly and be guided through a variety of breathing practices that aid relaxation, focus and grounding. This lesson is for private online tuition where you will learn at your own pace and be guided throughout by meditation and Qigong instructor Nicola. These lessons are open to everyone looking to improve their health and wellbeing through effective breathing techniques.
