Master Ding Academy Midlands Traditional Tai Chi Chuan

Spaces Still Available - Book Yours Now! Tai Chi Workshop

We still have a few spaces available for our upcoming Tai Chi Workshop - Posture Testing: Making Tai Chi Work.

Posture testing creates authentic Tai Chi which truly works with the concepts and principles of internal energy.

Join us for this workshop on Saturday March 14th for a day of making practice more fruitful, both as the tester and the one being tested.

Whether you are a total beginner or an experienced Tai Chi adept, this workshop will be of value and help you move forwards.
Through accurately practicing, refining and exploring Tai Chi concepts and principles, you can increase your health, vitality and subtle, sensitive, yet extremely potent power.

The workshop runs from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM, with a one-hour lunch break and two tea breaks. Green tea will be provided, and you’re welcome to bring your own lunch if you’d like to eat in the cabin.

​Non MDA members - £65
MDA member price - £60

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Tai Chi Workshop - Posture Testing | deeperbeing Posture testing creates authentic Tai Chi which truly works with the concepts and principles of internal energy. Join us for a day of making practice more fruitful, both as the tester and the one being tested. Whether a total beginner or experienced Tai Chi adept, this workshop will be of value and....

Is there a certain time to start your Tai Chi journey? When you do, doesn't it simply occur? You contact the teacher, come along and join in. Seems so simple; yet the swelling mist of our lives turns us round and round and round. It often takes a special set of circumstances to find oneself studying the Art.
Yet we're not little children, we're adults. Each step we take is ours to command. Isn't it?

The push hands workshop this Saturday 10-4pm will be focussing on rooting. The ability to keep one's rooting through listening and feeling is the essence of the Art of Tai Chi. Push hands accelerates the growth of your rooting - internal power - a force unseen, but felt by others. When your rooting develops, your confidence and solidity does too. Rooted people present differently. Seasoned Tai Chi practitioners emanate certain qualities of palpable calmness and centredness and are some of the hallmarks of successful practice.
Develop your rooting and transform yourself.
All welcome.

Ok, so Thursday evenings (7-8:30pm for Tai Chi and 8:30-9:30pm for power training and applications) will continue at the Deeper Being training cabin, 257 Harlestone Road NN5 6DD, for now, as St Gregory's RC Church hall is currently shut. When you arrive for Thursday evening class, please avoid parking in front 255, 259 and 261 - please spread yourselves out x.

Fyi, there's been a fire at the Church and the whole thing's shut right now. No one has been hurt. They don't seem to know the cause as yet. It's been described as 'substantial damage'.

Just a reminder:
Tai chi Thursdays 10-11:30am is now always at our back garden training cabin.

Tai Chi this evening is also at our training cabin, next week reverts back to St Gregory's

*Spaces still available*

Tai Chi Workshop - Saturday 8th November 2025

Increasing Power, Poise and Vitality
Through Loosening The Waist
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Tai Chi strengthens the core through relaxing the waist, pelvis and hips and leading from the lower Tan Tien (the centre a couple of inches below the belly button).

Tai Chi practice builds, power, strength and resilience through mindful action that increases energy flow. Energy flows when you relax with purpose (Yi).

Opening the energy channels of the waist, hips and pelvis can improve pelvic and hip health, strengthen the back and improve posture. Through accurately practicing and exploring Tai Chi concepts and principles, you can move forwards in your Tai Chi journey, increasing your health, vitality and subtle, sensitive, yet extremely potent power.

Whether a total beginner or experienced Tai Chi adept, this workshop will be of value and help you move forwards.
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The workshop runs from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM, with a one-hour lunch break and two tea breaks. Green tea will be provided, and you’re welcome to bring your own lunch if you’d like to eat in the cabin.

​Non MDA members - £65
MDA member price - £60