If you are new or well versed in the art of Tai Chi, you may well have seen references to other spellings. If you belong to any forum online, this discussion degenerates quickly into a series of insults and emojis. Particularly when someone insists:...

Update see this: Live Zoom session on Tai Chi Walking They’ve been hard to miss, thrust in front of us on every social media platform for months now — adverts promising to transform you from an overweight, immobile pensioner into a slim, middle-age...

How Tai Chi Really begins. A new live session Recently, I've been thinking a lot about the practice. About how much emphasis is placed on the doing. About how, by turning off our minds, our body and breath can emerge. And thats how it should b...

Eccentric exercises tell us that running down a hill or walking down a flight of stairs is more beneficial than going up. How does eccentric exercise work and how does any of this help us in our practice our Tai Chi? THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FITNES...

New Live Session: Simple practices for a conflict free existence. Are you.....Wondering what Yielding means in Tai Chi?Pondering how to practice it by yourself at home?Curious how to employ the soft-techniques on the street (and in the supermarket?)...

What defines a Ninja? Those that join the Quiet Ninja. membership? Those that hide in plain site, walk in silence, and leave no footprints The word Ninja - it should be said - is not a reference to a garbed and gloved sword wielding assassin at all,...

How can you show the principles of grounding, sticking, and yielding in curious and engaging partner work exercises?How can you reach out to teachers from diverse arts such as Karate, Taekwondo, Qigong and Tai Chi within the same workshop - appeal t...

You’ve read the book, maybe even done the exercises. You’ve practised the noble art of leaving things undone. But what happens when those ideas start whispering, “We’d like to get out more”? Well, that’s how it all began. One quiet afternoon, a few ...

Are you.....Fed up with practising a 479 move Tai Chi form that takes 3.5 hours to run through once?Do you keep forgetting how many Monkeys you have repulsed?Do you keep running out of room even though you have an entire football pitch at your dispo...

A big thanks to those that joined in this weekends zoom session on the 10 Step Form in which we discussed footsteps, breathing, memory of moves and lots more... - see sected screen grabs below. For those that attended and for those that registered ...

“Blending Traditions" Was first posted on the old site by Tom Divney. He proposed writing a short article on the issues raised when learning from different styles/instructors. His article with comments, is reproduced here : Learning Tai Chi from...

Lee has been a Flying Dragon member of the 21st century tai chi academy for some time. Combining this flexible approach with her other training, Lee, who is based in New Zealand (NZ) has created her own freshly brewed approach to teaching and calls...

How do we notice change? It’s not like leaving your office on a Friday and returning on Monday to find everything more or less the same, save for a little dust and grime. No, the forest at the edge of town tells a different story—walk through it aft...

I'm trying out this PDF viewer as an alternative to simply downloading a file and then forgetting where it is. But I'm not sure about ways to present it. It could be a simple URL, Or embedding the file like this (hit the expand button to s...

For the last year I have been reconstructing my email automations (especially for book purchases where codes need to be sent out 24 hours a day) or courses where content is drip fed over a period of time. But this Spring, the email program began to...