Tai Chi, Qi Gong & Sound Bath Retreat

Service Description

Tai Chi is many things but at its heart it is an art focused on cultivation. It has a deep understanding of martial arts, strength and conditioning, health practices, philosophy, energy work (Qi Gong) and meditation, which when put together, creates something unique and greater than the sum of its parts. This is a first of its kind from The Wise Lotus Centre. Chris from www.threetreasures.co.uk is joining forces with Nshorna from The Wise Lotus centre to create a day where we learn to harmonize the Mind, Body and Breath through the practice of different Tai Chi exercises. We then finish the day with a beautiful relaxing Sound Bath! In the first part of the day, we will look at Tai Chi. We will cover how to stand with quality and how to properly align the body, create a solid root with the ground and release and expand through the joints of the body so that we gently open the joints and stretch the tendons and connective tissues. Tai Chi is good for many things but at the beginning we learn to bring the mind into the body and sink the breath into the lower belly and center known as the Dan Tien. We relax our tension and expand the breath and the Chi from the center throughout the entire body. We will then look at simple patterns that enable us to keep what we’ve learnt before and maintain this while in motion. I will also teach some simple Tai Chi forms, and a Qi Gong set that will help you to link the mind, breath and body together! Students often quickly find that their posture and balance have improved, they have become stronger. Old aches and pains start to disappear, their mind body connection grows, and their full body power greatly increases. The workshop will start at 10am. We will have a few breaks throughout the morning and then stop properly for lunch at around 1:30pm. After everyone has had lunch, Nshorna will be running a deeply relaxing Sound Bath to finish off the day. This will be a real treat after the morning of practice.