Weekly Tai Chi Class in Forest Row

Tai Chi every Friday, 5.30-6.30pm at Anderida Community

in Forest Row, East Sussex

Classes on through to (and including) 20th December 2024

***Please note one exception: No class Friday 15th November***

I have been training in Tai Chi for many years and I’m very excited to now be embarking on the journey of teaching and sharing that with others. I have a weekly class on a Fridays at 5.30-6.30pm at the Anderida Community in Forest Row, East Sussex.

It is a drop-in class, beginners welcome.

We usually do some standing meditation, simple chi-gung exercises, and the Yang Family Tai Chi Form.

Please get in touch if you want to know more or have any questions.

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Anderida Community is a pale green building with a wooden door, to the right hand side of the ‘Java & Jazz’ cafe in the centre of the village.

I want this class to be a space in the same spirit as wise fool school - a place for coming home to ourselves. There is a rare opportunity in Tai Chi to quieten the busy mind, bring sensitivity to our relationhsip with our bodies, and tune in to a sense of connection with ourselves, and that which is greater than us - whatever name you give to that.

There is a grace and poetry that is available to us in Tai Chi which can be deeply nourishing. Nourishing, both in the moment - as a reset and recharge - and to have that nourishing space available to us more readily in the hustle and bustle of daily life too: An inner sanctuary.

We live in a time of great turbulence, and as well as the physical aspect of Tai Chi, it can be a great way to build our spiritual resourcefulness too.

To be a match for all that life will bring to us, we must invest wisely and just as we need to find sources of physical, mental and emotional health and wealth, we need to cultivate deep wells of spiritual resources as well. Many of the spaces we have historically relied on to build spiritual depth and community are in decline. Practices, and the communities we can build around them, inspired by ancient wisdom traditions like Tai Chi and the Taoist philosophy it embodies are treasure-troves in the all-too-often disconnected modern world.

My Background:

I have trained in a range of martial arts for over 20 years. One of the first arts I explored - and have continued to practice elements of, through all those years - was Yang Style Tai Chi. I love the subtlety, lightness, grace and flow of Tai Chi so it has been a real joy for me to enter back into deeper study, not just for my own practice but to teach.

I am studying with Steve Rowe - founder of Shi Kon Martial Arts, 9th Dan in Karate and International Tai Chi teacher. I completed the basic Tai Chi Coaching Certificate and am in the process of completing the Advanced training with Steve and Shi Kon.

Previously, as well as Tai Chi, I have trained in various styles of Karate, including achieving a 3rd Dan black belt in Kodo Ryu Karate; plus training in Iaido, Capoeira, Silat, and European Weaponry. I have also studied various kinds of health and creative embodied development practices such as Alexander Technique, Uzazu (Certified as an Embodied Change Facilitator with Dylan Newcomb in the US), chi gung, conscious dance and movement work, physical theatre, and standing meditation. I have a BA (Hons) Degree from one of the UK’s top Drama Schools. I co-founded a programme training facilitators and coaches in embodied approaches and have taught embodiment Internationally.