Welcome to Yiheyuan Martial Arts
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"A school should exist not only to teach but also to investigate, not only to formulate prematurely a finalized system but to remain creative, to go on testing theories by applying them and by validating ideas by experience." Paul Brunton _________________________________
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Our Amazing Yolande! |
Then again, all our students are pretty amazing! |
Congratulations also to our newest assessor,Kath Pybus, who has now helped several of her students to achieve their level 1 Certificate in Tai Chi Chuan. Here she is with Phil Hill, Suzette Garland-Grimes, Mark Rowbottom, Andrew Freer and Julie Ware. Well done all of you!
Assessors Barbara Doyle and John Donegan, enabled two of their students, Keith Manders and Steven Hambleton, to achieve their level 1 award earlier this year.
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Here are our some of the students
who achieved Instructor's Certificate in Tai Chi Chuan just before the lockdown: Kieron Niven Rob Kiss Dave Cullen David Holmes Angela Losty Jane Middleton Martin Day |
Home Study Options
If you don’t have a class at the moment, we have lots of online home study options to help you to stay fit and well and continue to develop your Tai Chi skills:
YouTube Videos
Please go to our YouTube channel to view a series of warm-up exercises with Colin, including loosening, stretching, silk-reeling, qigong and seated strength training.
You can also follow Colin through the whole of the Cheng Man Ching form, as seen from behind, exactly as you would in class, with verbal instructions and subtitles showing the names of the moves as you go along.
Just click on this link:
www.youtube.com/user/yiheyuantaichi
Get Tutorial Support
If you want to progress with your forms and receive guidance on how to improve, individual online tutorial support is also available, providing you with lots of helpful feedback based on the short video clips you submit. If you are interested, just send us an email to realtaichi@hotmail.co.uk
Books
Please remember that we have already written down practically everything we felt you might like to know about Tai Chi, from beginner to advanced and instructor level, in our books, which are all listed below.
If you don’t have a class at the moment, we have lots of online home study options to help you to stay fit and well and continue to develop your Tai Chi skills:
YouTube Videos
Please go to our YouTube channel to view a series of warm-up exercises with Colin, including loosening, stretching, silk-reeling, qigong and seated strength training.
You can also follow Colin through the whole of the Cheng Man Ching form, as seen from behind, exactly as you would in class, with verbal instructions and subtitles showing the names of the moves as you go along.
Just click on this link:
www.youtube.com/user/yiheyuantaichi
Get Tutorial Support
If you want to progress with your forms and receive guidance on how to improve, individual online tutorial support is also available, providing you with lots of helpful feedback based on the short video clips you submit. If you are interested, just send us an email to realtaichi@hotmail.co.uk
Books
Please remember that we have already written down practically everything we felt you might like to know about Tai Chi, from beginner to advanced and instructor level, in our books, which are all listed below.
Here are some free eBooks for you to download:
(Please click on the links to download your free PDF files)
(Please click on the links to download your free PDF files)
This 17-page guide is designed to be like a best friend, with some knowledge of Tai Chi, who can help you to find the right class for you, let you know what to expect when you get there and explain what's going on in your first few lessons.
For those with a little more experience, an intermediate level guide:
Your Tai Chi Companion Part Two - Moving On
As you progress through the beginner to intermediate stages of your Tai Chi journey, this 44-page "guide by your side" allows you to check your skills, troubleshoot problems and explore some of the deeper aspects of the art.
Your Tai Chi Companion Part Two - Moving On
As you progress through the beginner to intermediate stages of your Tai Chi journey, this 44-page "guide by your side" allows you to check your skills, troubleshoot problems and explore some of the deeper aspects of the art.
Interested in Qigong?
For very experienced Tai Chi practitioners:
Are you interested in moving towards mastery of your martial art?
Would you like to know more about the martial side of Tai Chi and how it could help to protect you on the street?
Or are you thinking of becoming a Tai Chi instructor?
For you, we now have three
Advanced Level Guides
covering forms, applications and how to teach Tai Chi.
available worldwide on Amazon in
Kindle and paperback formats.
Are you interested in moving towards mastery of your martial art?
Would you like to know more about the martial side of Tai Chi and how it could help to protect you on the street?
Or are you thinking of becoming a Tai Chi instructor?
For you, we now have three
Advanced Level Guides
covering forms, applications and how to teach Tai Chi.
available worldwide on Amazon in
Kindle and paperback formats.
Interested in Meditation?
You can download this free eBook on
Meditation
You might also like to check out g's meditation Zoom class on Thursday evenings 7.00pm
And you can listen to, or download, two free meditations as MP3 files from
The Onesong website
Namaste
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Meditation
You might also like to check out g's meditation Zoom class on Thursday evenings 7.00pm
And you can listen to, or download, two free meditations as MP3 files from
The Onesong website
Namaste
_/\_
The Martial Side
Due to the pandemic, we are unable to practice push hands and the fighting skills of Tai Chi at present. There are lots of demonstrations of Tai Chi on the internet but most of them need a willing partner and are not practical in real-life situations. See a video of our practical
Tai Chi Applications
The Wu Dang Stick Forms...FREE

See our free tutorials on You Tube showing the
Wu Dang San Feng Gun Stick Forms
Both forms and the two-person stick drills!
There's also an illustrated Training Manual, as a PDF, to accompany the videos of forms 1 and 2.