For me T’ai Chi is very much a health art and meditative practice. I see the main benefits of T’ai Chi as to:

+ Get to know your own body and to learn to use it through the form in a way that can bring relaxation and take away tension.

+ Gain greater physical self confidence, improved posture and a greater sense of grace and flow in your movements

+ Learn abdominal breathing and as you deepen your breathing to begin to feel the health benefits of practice

+ Discover how you hold tension and trauma in your body and to learn to release it

+ Gain greater mental clarity as your practice improves and your t’ai chi becomes a form of moving meditation

+ Become centred physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually

+ Gain access to a whole Taoist tradition of arts and practices that when practiced will bring great benefit to coping with life in the busy modern world

T’ai Chi, as taught in the Lee Style, is very much a journey of self discovery through practice. This is in keeping with its Taoist origins as a way of approaching life and everything that you encounter along your journey. It is also a great privilege to work with others who are on their own journey and are learning and using these arts to help them along the way.