Last Thursday saw us return to St. Leonard's Church Hall in Penwortham for our regular weekly Chen Style Tai Chi classes and it was brilliant to see everyone again and practice Tai Chi without having to periodically turn to face the camera!
The sessions are Covid safe, limited in size and attendance is by appointment only. If you'd like to join us at a session please email:
Sadly, we're still unable to offer a pot of steaming Chinese tea to everyone, but hope that June/July will see us able to return to a full schedule of de-restricted tea filled practices!
This week's link of interest is to video footage of Chen Xiaowang explaining how to cultivate and use internal energy when striking. Whether Tai Chi is being practiced for health or for martial purposes, how we move and the way we store and release energy is the same. This is a great little lesson about punching, but it also highlights how the whole body needs to work as one when we move:
