Tai Chi is an extraordinary art.
Rediscover your innate health, strength, power and posture in our classes and workshops.
A lot of tai chi that is taught these days is little more than a slow motion dance. Yet real tai chi is infinitely deeper than that. Few modern instructors have much knowledge of the depth of tai chi practice such as rooting, connected posture, breathing practices, wave-like movements, whole-body power, yin-yang theory, energy development, working with forces, inner focus training etc etc etc. Because so much of this is missing you can only scrape the surface of the amazing benefits of real tai chi. Unless, of course, you can find a teacher who has studied and plumbed it’s depths.
Real Tai Chi is an amazing art. It offers benefits no other exercise system can or does.
Tai Chi combines slow, mindful, aligned movement with a powerful breath. It develops a very relaxed yet powerful posture, strong legs, mobile joints and a calm, focused mind.
Our Tai Chi retreat in Oxfordshire
Tai Chi training offers benefits no other exercise system can
- Learn to hold and move your body without tension so you can stay relaxed even when under stress
- Breathe with each movement to help you relax and move with effortless power
- All exercise is mindful to help your mind become calm, centred and focused
- Movements are slow, balanced, controlled and purposeful.
- Tai Chi helps you excel at any other sport or exercise by teaching you to move with effortless power.
Balance isn’t a gift. It’s a skill that anyone can, and should learn. Staying relaxed and balanced even under pressure is one of life’s most important lessons.
Tai chi also helps with a wide range of chronic conditions including fibromyalgia, anxiety issues, coronary heart disease and many more. Click here for a list of other medical research on the many benefits of tai chi.
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Tai chi is a set of slow, flowing movements developed to release tension and restore your health and balance.
Through regular tai chi training you get far greater control over your body, mind and breathing.
Why the Jade Dragon School?
When it comes to learning tai chi how quickly and well you learn is all down to your teacher.
Good tai chi teachers are like fine wine – they take a long time to mature. Recently many people have set themselves up in business offering tai chi teaching qualifications often after only a few weeks or months of training.
There is no overriding authority that governs the teaching of tai chi. Anybody can claim to be a master even after just a few months of classes.
Our teacher, Paul Chapman has studied with real Chinese masters and has spent 40 years refining and honing the art. He is one of the most experienced and knowledgeable teachers in the UK.
Due to Paul’s experience and expertise our school teaches the real concepts of tai chi which are rarely found in most schools but so important for beginners to learn. You don’t just learn the form but also the fundamental training in how to stand, move, breathe, walk and so on.
You get so much more benefit from each class when you understand these core skills. You learn so much faster when you learn to use them from the beginning.
Tai chi is also a martial art and teaches you to relax and remain calm and centred even under the most stressful of circumstances. The lessons of tai chi will benefit every area of your life for the rest of your life.
Teaching tai chi on a beach in Crete
Let me teach you tai chi
I can teach anyone of any age to gain power, balance and stability through this amazing art. Lots of people tell you to relax but they can’t tell you how. That’s what I do and I have forty years knowledge and experience in doing so.
After just your first few lessons you will already be able to:
- Maintain a posture that is aligned with gravity and will help you resist physical or emotional pressures easily
- Breathe in a way that will deeply relax you and make that a habit. But also change your breathing when you need extra energy.
- Improve your mobility and balance and be able to move more fluidly and easily.
- Stand, walk, sit and breathe in a way that maximises your health and vigour.
Our classes are fun and fascinating and remember you will learn skills that will benefit you for the rest of your life.
- Learn to relax and stay relaxed under pressure
- Become more fluid and mobile in your movements
- Improve your posture and gain balance and strength
- Greatly increase your self-awareness through mindful movement
- Boost your energy levels
- Maintain your vitality as you age
- Learn a beautiful and ancient art
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The Tai Chi Form
The form we teach is the 37 step Yang style short form developed by Professor Cheng Man Ching. Each movement can be done in different ways allowing you to express yourself through the movements of the form.
Soon you’ll feel different, be more relaxed, balanced and have far more control over yourself and your reactions to stress.
The form takes a while to learn but it is a journey that gradually leads to mastery over your mind, body and breath.
Qigong
Qigong is a part of Traditional Chinese Medicine. It refers to any exercise that develops your breathing, body mechanics and energy flow. Qigong is either done with flowing movements or is done standing in stillness.
We teach the rare ‘5 breaths of Tao’ and the 8 animals qigong movements. Each movement teaches you to move in a fluid and relaxed yet powerful way like the animal it represents.
Push Hands
An integral part of tai chi training is push hands. This is a partner exercise where you gently push with your partner and aim to maintain all the principles of tai chi. You remain balanced, relaxed, sensitive and receptive to their movements.
With some practice any physical or emotional force acting on you doesn’t instantly trigger your fight or flight responses. You learn to stay relaxed, rooted and in control of your mind and body.
Push hands practice
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Learn Tai Chi from home
- The full yang style short form (37 steps)
- All the proper principles
- Qigong exercises
- Yin and yang power training
- Easy to follow videos and PDF descriptions of everything
- The most comprehensive online training course available
- Split into 11 digestible modules
Each module is contains at least a month’s worth of lessons and is currently just £18 per module.
