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I shall be teaching a Sword fencing class on Saturday August 30th 2025- suitable for all levels, to come and learn how to fence. I have a seven step system to go from sticking partner work to freestyle fencing. Please email or text for a palce.

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Tai Chi instruction in Cornwall, UK and beyond. Phil Wright Senior Instructor in Yang Style Tai Chi & QiGong with the Tai Chi Union of GB. 30 years.

I've come to realise that Tai Ji is about pre heav

I've come to realise that Tai Ji is about pre heavenly Qi, that we are manifesting this to our fingers. By pre heavenly Qi is meant nature, the energy that moves the heavens and our blood. This perhaps is why the super masters of old emplored us to be natural. Its also perhaps why Tai Ji is hard to realise. Instead, it's easier to use some form of force or post heaven Qi to imitate Tai jis true nature. Just some thoughts. These too will change.

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Classes have restarted and beginners joining. Desp

Classes have restarted and beginners joining. Despite the dramatic and graceful looking nature of the form, I teach that the form is simply a tool to practice your Tai Chi. The movements themselves are empty without understanding what we do on the inside. So, I teach from the inside out.

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Nothing like some QiGong on a Wintry beach in the

Nothing like some QiGong on a Wintry beach in the sun. It really emphasises the Heaven and Earth connection. In my classes I teach a mixture of meditative stuff, white crane movements and much work on the three dantiens plus the microcosmic orbit. Its all about opening, connection and feeling.

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Classes finish this week and re-start the week of

Classes finish this week and re-start the week of 5th January 2026. It's been a really good year of Tai Chi and QiGong, lots of beginners and lots of people deepening their practice. I often think Tai Chi requires patience and gong fu or hard work and practice at what we do. Then, we get the insights and changes. Every time, Tai Chi itself and what it might be also depends. There seems to be no end to that depth.

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The Zen Master, Shunryu Suzuki was asked once to s

The Zen Master, Shunryu Suzuki was asked once to sum up Zen in one word but he could not. When he was asked to do so in a phrase, he responded that it was very difficult if not impossible but if he had to, he would say 'everything changes'.

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Nothing better than Waving Hands in the Clouds, at

Nothing better than Waving Hands in the Clouds, at the beach. My favourite move from Tai Chi works static for QiGong too, bringing Yang Qi up to the Middle Dantien and Yin Qi to the Lower Dantien. Upper Dantien is clear above 'the clouds', feet are rooted in the Earth.

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There are so many things I love about the art of t

There are so many things I love about the art of the sword! It's fun, spirited and aerobic for a start but in freestyle fencing it teaches you so much about Tai Chi. The only thing that works for me is to not think, just be: to be empty but have full awareness. Then the Qi can flow though you into the sword and then it works through you, responding to your partner's 'doing'. When it really works it doesn't feel like I do fencing but "it" works through me. The sword is the instrument of the Tao.

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Why practice Pushing Hands in Tai Chi, why is it s

Why practice Pushing Hands in Tai Chi, why is it such an essential part of our practice? And what approach should we have? I think Wolfe Lowenthal sums it up best;

The correct gung fu is like making a fine sword. We have the principle of self-awareness and softness; then we use Push Hands to temper that principle over and over again in the white-hot fire of our ego and fear, fueled by our opponents ego and fear.

From his book; Gateway to the Miraculous.

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This Sunday is the SW Push Hands event in Devon th

This Sunday is the SW Push Hands event in Devon that I co-run. Anyone is welcome from any style or level of experience to come and play pushing hands. For me, I would call it 'sensing hands' as that is more descriptive of the kind of play I prefer.

#vitalaichi #swpushhands #pushinghands #sensinghands #taichi #taiji #taichichuan #Lifton

My Friday morning QiGong class is open to beginner

My Friday morning QiGong class is open to beginners. One of our practices is the Ba Duan Jin, or Eight Silk Brocades, an ancient practice illustrated above. QiGong translates as 'energy work'; we do exercises to gently open the body, open energy meridians and creat better health and wellbeing. Classes are 10am for a 10.15 start Fridays in Lifton Community Centre. Feel free to join.

#qigong #Qi #qigongpractice #Chi #vitalaichi #lifton

Classes have kicked off this September! Nice to se

Classes have kicked off this September! Nice to see lots of beginners turning up to start learning Tai Ji and Qi Gong. I tell them that the most important thing is to start inhabiting your body with your mind! If you can feel the tension you can do some thing about it! We are always told to relax but I like to explain how to do this.

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What a lovely big turn out each day for All Ages T

What a lovely big turn out each day for All Ages Tai Chi and Qi in The Woods @shambalafest I really enjoyed the classes in the wonderful Enchanted Wood area. Thank you for having me and thanks to everyone who turned up. Hopefully see you next year.

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I'm running a Tai Chi straight sword or Jian fenci

I'm running a Tai Chi straight sword or Jian fencing workshop Saturday 30th August at Lifton Community Centre, Devon. In the workshop, we look at a set of seven partner exercises which help us go from sticking to free style fencing. The sword is a wonderful teacher. There's a few places left if anyone is interested.

#taichi #taiji #taichistraightsword #swordfencing #jian #vitaltaichi #workshop #swords #taichifencing

Classes have finished for the Summer Break, back i

Classes have finished for the Summer Break, back in September 25. Though I will be teaching at Shambala festival and maybe some others! Plus I have a sword fencing workshop on 30th August. But in the meantime, have a good Summer people. Tai Ji is all about letting go. And or course, intense practice!

#vitaltaichi #taichi #taiji #Launceston #shambalafestival #Qi

Classes are open to beginners. Tai Chi is good for

Classes are open to beginners. Tai Chi is good for all age levels and helps regulate your nervous system and is the perfect antidote to the modern age and all it's distractions. Tai Chi is designed to change how you operate under stressful conditions. It is practised slowly but within partner work and sword work, can become very fast. It takes a good amount of time to become proficient as a martial art but it has great benefits initially for health and wellbeing. It changes your life.

#taiji #taichi #taichiteacher #taichicornwall #Launceston #Qi #vitaltaichi #pushinghands #sensinghands

Great weekend workshop with Bret Hall. A great rem

Great weekend workshop with Bret Hall. A great reminder that Tai Ji is the art of non-doing. We practice and we strive, yet really it is in letting go and being spacious that we allow the Qi to flow and work. Oh yes, he is very tall and I do have my eyes closed.

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I'm hosting Bret Hall from Michigan in Launceston

I'm hosting Bret Hall from Michigan in Launceston Cornwall, Saturday 31st May and Sunday 1st June. Bret has studied with many senior students of Chen Man Ching and has a unique take on partner work, pushing hands and returning energy that suits all styles. Some places left, DM me if your interested.

#taichi #taichiteacher #taichiteaching #taiji #taichichuan #pushinghands #qi #chi #brethall #chenmanching

Grasp sparrows tail sequence. #taichi #taiji #vit

Grasp sparrows tail sequence.

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Bliss! Tai Ji on the beach in warm April sunshine

Bliss! Tai Ji on the beach in warm April sunshine with a slight chilly wind. A chance to connect outwards and join with the Qi. Shortly afterwards got cut off from the tide and had to wade through the waves, first dip of the year, literally!

#taiji #taichi #vitaltaichi #bliss #qi #tao

I think I increasingly find it astounding that peo

I think I increasingly find it astounding that people take a materialist viewpoint to Tai Chi. In other words, Tai Chi is simply a bio-mechanical thing to learn and do. I think I would prefer to dance than do Form in this way. Tai Ji most obviously is based on an understanding of a vitalistic world and so Tai Ji is about vibrational or wave like energy development. The whole thing is founded on an understanding of the body as energy system. This is an internal energy art and requires use of consciousness, openness of the body and mind.

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