LONDON TAI CHI CLASSES
QI GONG CLASSES
IN-DEPTH WORKSHOPS
PUBLIC PERFORMANCES
ONE TO ONE TUITION
Benefit health • Condition the body • Relax the mind
> Welcome to Tai Ji Circle, our London Classes have started for Term Three, and student Class Pass Payments are available for credit card or Paypal payment from Members & Class fees drop-down menu
> New London Beginners Tai Chi Course of 7 or 15 weeks – you can start on either Thursday 8th or Sunday 11th September (at St Paul’s Church Hall in Camden Square, NW1 9XG), check our Events for details and ensure a place by booking now through Eventbrite.
Anyone on the Foundation Beginners course who would like to attend the Foundation Chen Workshop on 15 October can come along at the members discounted rate.
Tai Ji Circle embodies authentic and traditional principles of Chinese internal martial arts and Chinese medicine. Through a wide range of weekly Chen Taijiquan (Tai Chi) classes and workshops, students of all ages and levels of fitness can benefit from the expert teaching of Shifu Liu at affordable prices. Tai Ji Circle hopes to promote a healthy way of life for their students, who come from the local community, all around London and from all over the world.
Everyone welcome!
Shifu Liu teaching chan si jing
Tai Chi is both an internal martial art and a form of meditation through flowing circular movements that help strengthen and balance the body and mind. The mental and spiritual focus required to perform it correctly, frees the energies of the body to flow naturally. Tai Chi Qi Gong practiced in Foundation classes is meditative and relaxing and is also suitable for those with health issues who cannot stand for long.
Tai Ji Circle is a north London school and charity dedicated to sharing and promoting Chen Taijiquan (Tai Chi Chuan) and qi gong (chi kung) practice. Classes are directed and taught by Liu Quanjun and assisted and managed by Christine Jones, both disciples of Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang, the 19th generation lineage heir of the Chen family, who originated modern Tai Chi taught worldwide today.
We are also very fortunate to have regular guests from China, such as Master Chen Ziqiang, nephew of Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang, and the son of Grandmaster Chen Xiaoxing. Chen Ziqiang is a 20th generation direct descendant of the Chen Family Taijiquan, and is the Chief Coach of the Chenjiagou Taijiquan School in Henan Province, China. Master Ziqiang is a multiple national martial arts champion of China.
Chen Taijiquan (Tai Chi Chuan is the Cantonese spelling)
Tai Chi (Taijiquan of the Chen style) is practiced as a sequence of slow or dynamic movements or forms, that combine ‘soft’ and ‘hard’, with ‘fast’ and ‘slow’ actions. It is performed in a relaxed, balanced and natural way that adheres to the philosophical Daoist (Taoist) principles of Yin Yang, the Chinese theory of opposites. Chen style Taijiquan has bare hand and weapon routines suitable for beginners to advanced levels, push hands and martial applications and techniques. It can be practiced meditatively and slowly in a high stance, or faster in a lower stance for increasing stamina and power, (which makes it different from other tai chi styles) but also makes it suitable for different age groups to practice.
COMPREHENSIVE CHEN TAI JI QUAN TRAINING for all levels
CHEN-STYLE HAND & WEAPON FORMS
“In the beginning use the body to move the ‘energy’ – much later you can use the ‘energy’ to move the body!”
Liu Quanjun
Tai Ji Circle are members of the Chen Xiao Wang Worldwide Taijiquan Association, the BCCMA, (the British Council for Chinese Martial Arts) and the Tai Chi Union of Great Britain.
See video link of Chen family Taijiquan in action!
Tai Ji Circle is a registered charity: Number 1151369
For information about London classes contact: [email protected]
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