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Tai Chi for everybody in the Southern Highlands!

When all is well inside you cope with anything outside. Start your well-being journey today with Refined Moves Tai Chi!

Overview

Monday morning magic at Lake Alexandra!

Class categories:

  • Small group Tai Chi classes across the Southern Highlands (keep scrolling down for current class locations)

  • Private Tai Chi instruction

  • Service provision to facilities/businesses/events

    • I currently provide Tai Chi instruction at the following Southern Highland facilities:

      • Mt Eymard Community Bowral

      • Annesley Community Bowral

      • Anthem Care Bowral

      • Wingecarribee Adult Day Centre

        • Bowral

        • Moss Vale

        • Colo Vale

      • Vinnies Creative Space Bowral

      • PCYC Rise Up Mittagong

Call me, let’s discuss your needs and goals and we will take it from there.

See the Refined Moves Tai Chi Code of Conduct.

Who is Refined Moves Tai Chi for?

Tai Chi has a multitude of benefits. Firstly, and foremostly general health, well-being and immunity but there are numerous other physical, mental, and emotional benefits. In fact, on a minute by minute, dollar by dollar comparison no other exercise form (weights, aerobics, balance classes, stretch classes, Pilates, cycling, running, walking…) come close to Tai Chi in terms of the overall benefit to a human being. Unlike other forms of exercise, Tai Chi is not just for the physical body. Tai Chi makes people (body, mind, spirit) and their lives better.

Tai Chi is a great gentle form of exercise for older people but it should not be thought off as an exercise just for old people. Everybody can benefit from the refining that Tai Chi brings.

Tai Chi is about mindful movement. It is the ultimate moving meditation. It can, help people ‘locate’ themselves and find focus, balance and calm. It helps us find calm self-knowledge and confidence, understanding of change and the ability to flow/grow with it. It can help people learn how to navigate change, how to flow, how to deal with stress, conflict, confrontation. Tai Chi can help anybody! Tai Chi is not just another exercise program. It is a martial art and like all martial arts, it can become a way of living a better life.

Tai Chi directs us internally, to where we find ourselves. Tai Chi is about inner evolution. It is a way of refining, growing and self-actualising.

What you can expect at a Refined Moves Tai Chi Class

Small, happy classes with patient, friendly, clear, high quality teaching. You will learn at your own pace, not the teacher’s. You can go from learning just some basic concepts to learning the complete forms and advanced techniques. There is sure to be something for you in the repertoire.

Southern Highlands Community Group Classes

NB: pre-registration essential as class sizes are capped to ensure quality teaching. All classes 1 hour duration.

Bowral Ballroom at Annesley Lifestyle Centre, 10 Westwood Drive, Bowral

6.00pm Tuesdays Yang 37 Form of Chen Man Ching

7.00pm Tuesdays Tai Chi Weapon forms (sticks, swords and fan)

2.00pm Fridays Easy Tai Chi class (can even be done sitting down!)

Bundanoon Bundanoon Club, 70B Erith Street, Bundanoon.

6.00pm Wednesdays Yang 37 Form of Chen Man Ching, Lohan Qi Gong

Mittagong Lake Alexandra Reserve, Queen St Mittagong

9.00am Mondays Yang 37 Form of Chen Man Ching, Ba Duan Jin Qi Gong

9.00am Wednesdays Tai Chi Qigong Shibashi, Yang 37 Form

9am Saturdays Yang 108 form of Yang Cheng Fu, Lohan Qi Gong

Can’t find a class day, time or location that suits you?

I am continually growing and adapting my class locations and days to meet community needs. Please contact me with your preferred day, time, location and if there is enough community interest around your request I will try to arrange it.

Fees: :

$20/class

Private lessons and Service provision to facilities/businesses/events - Price on Application (POA)

Register for your Tai Chi class in the Southern Highlands now!

FAQ

To see all FAQs, please visit the FAQ page.

  • The original Yang 108 form is practiced as developed by the founder of the style, Master Yang Lu Chan in 1850. A shortened 37 move Yang Style as developed by Master Cheng Man Ching in the 1940’s is also practiced.

    Various Tai Chi weapon forms and other Qigong forms are also practiced.

    I do not practice the abridged Beijing type forms as being a martial artist, I prefer the genuine article. I practice my Tai Chi within the context not just of how to get energy flowing but within the context of what constitutes safe and efficient movement from a physiotherapy point of view and from a context of what the moves actually are and how they would apply in a martial sense from my martial artist point of view.

  • Yes! I hope you will practice but not just because practice is the only way to learn a motor skill and refine it; rather that you will want to practice because you will find practice optimises your feeling of well-being and health. Tai Chi should become like stretching when you get up out of bed. You just do it because it feels great! Tai Chi/Qigong practice makes you feel alive. Qigong actually translates to “energy practice”. So, practice and live well!

  • It is up to you and depends on your circumstances and what you want to achieve.

    I am still a student and go to classes with my teacher - I still have much to learn.

    I hope that however long each of my students come to class they keep practicing something they learned from me for a lifetime, and it makes their lifetime better. If that happens, I am a happy, content teacher as my time and breath was well spent with that student. The encounter made the universe a better and happier place.

  • No. I have a duty of care to all my students.

    Before you are matched to a suitable class I need to know a bit about you, your health history and your aims/goals before you join in to ensure safety and appropriateness of participation.