Tai Chi for Healing and Development

After teaching Tai Chi Chuan in a traditional class-format for over 20 years, I developed a selection of sequences and moving meditations that can support your healing and development journey. I won't teach you the whole curriculum,  but short sequences and moving meditations that enable you to:

• raise your energy or calm it down
• explore where you give your energy away and how you can take it back
• guard and protect your space in a peaceful manner
• balance and harmonise energy in all your body parts
• explore Yin and Yang aspects of energy, which allow you to move from a hard and fast to a soft and flowing approach. This is useful for situations where you feel a bit stuck or caught up in a conflict.
• learn how to shape-shift (using Shaolin animal styles), which will allow you to change your emotions. For example, you can shift from feeling like a focused, assertive Cobra to feeling like a playful Butterfly (or the other way round).  
• energise the space around you; if your home feels a bit flat - you can use specific Tai Chi moves to revive it.
• explore the Great Mystery by visiting the deepest place within yourself and the universe - the place between the Yin and Yang. The place of deep silence.

Please note: If you would like to learn the full Tai Chi Chuan curriculum, I also offer private lessons and classes for this on my second website, Vitality Leap. 

What is Tai Chi?

Tai Chi Chuan is a Chinese martial art and moving meditation, that uses gentle, flowing movements to balance inner energy (called Chi). It has mental, emotional and physical benefits, such as increased agility, stress release, self-confidence and mindfulness. It also has a spiritual side; using movement and energy work to connect yourself to your essence, to who you really are. ​

The Shaolin style of Tai Chi Chuan is a bit 'harder' than some other traditions. Some of our moves may look almost like 'slow motion Kung Fu', others are clearly a moving meditation. Every single move in our system has a  a health and a martial arts application. For example, lifting your arms in a certain way may strengthen some muscles and massage the glands. At the same time, it also could serve as a blocking motion for an incoming strike. The core goal is always building and balancing your energy, so that you can live a healthier and happier life. Read more on our Tai Chi website: http://www.vitalityleap.com/shaolin.html

You will benefit from these sessions if ...

• You feel stressed or anxious and look for a simple way to release tension
• You are on a healing journey and want to access your physical intelligence
• You would like to experience the energy in your body and use it to improve your everyday life
• You would like to meditate but can't sit still
• Balancing  your energies is one of your challenges, you are always 'low' or 'high'
• Your problem solving approaches and behaviour in relationships are not serving you: you feel you are acting too tough or you allow others to push you around
• You are going through a life change or challenge, and need some extra 'power' to make it through