Beginner's Course of Tai Chi, Taoist Yoga, Breathwork and Qi Gong (Thurs)

This 4-week course runs on Thursday mornings from 7:15-8:30am starting on 23rd January.

This beginner’s course is an introduction to the Taoist arts of Lishi. Through this journey, you’ll ​explore foundational practices that harmonise the body, mind, and spirit. Over the course, we’ll dive ​into three transformative techniques designed to cultivate balance, energy, and well-being.

Taoist yoga, also known as Kaimen, is an ancient practice that encourages relaxation and openness in the body. In Kaimen we move mindfully through different postures and through focusing on the breath and relaxing the body, our muscles, tendons, and ligaments are opened, promoting qi flow for increased vitality and suppleness.

Through Daoyin breathing ​exercises, you will learn how to ​take low and deep ​diaphragmatic breaths that ​energises the body and drives ​and powers the qi, giving you ​greater vitality. Daoyin benefits ​the whole organism by ​increasing the breath capacity ​and strengthening the ​respiratory system.

Combining relaxation from ​Taoist Yoga and whole-body ​breathing from DaoYin ​exercises, we will tune into the ​flow of qi. Through silk reeling ​and standing Qi Gong, we’ll use ​softness, relaxation, and deep ​breaths to move qi throughout ​the body, cultivating energy and ​leaving you revitalised and ​refreshed.

Thursday Mornings 7:15-8:30am

Thursday 23rd January

Thursday 30th January

Thursday 6th February

Thursday 13th February

(There is also a 4-week course starting on Tuesday evenings from 6:30-7:45pm from 21st January - see other events to book)

This 4-week beginner’s course focuses on cultivating inner warmth, resilience, and balance to nurture the body and conserve energy during the colder months. Embrace winter’s natural introspection, through Taoist yoga, Dao Yin and Qi Gong, learn to root and calm the mind and body. This journey supports a smooth seasonal transition, helping you foster endurance, restore inner peace, and connect to a renewed sense of self.

My name is Helen and I have been practicing the Taoist arts of Lishi for over ten years. I started in my early twenties when I was an art student – I had just moved to London and was in perpetual existential crisis that art school wasn’t helping with…! I started going to the weekly Lishi tai chi class which really helped me to relax, gain some perspective on things and get more in tune with my body, it was also really fun, hard work (I would leave each class achy) and made me feel alive 🙂

The immediate benefits I felt after my first class have only deepened and become more profound in the years that followed. Through following the principles and theory of Taoist practice that you learn in the classes, I am now the calmest and happiest I’ve ever been and feel better equipped to work through life’s ups and downs…

Host or Publisher Helen Wilson