Great River T’ai Chi

Founded 2002. Classical Yang Style taichi classes online & in-person.

GRTC founder and principal Caroline Ross teaching in Gothenburg, Sweden circa 2010

Learn with us online at our new live sessions or watch them recorded for at-your-own-pace study.

Welcome to our website (updated November 2025).

New classes! The next online classes will begin 4-5pm 15th December 15th 2025, and continue weekly. You can sign up here. Classes are £6 / $8 / 7 Euros per session, paid by a £25 monthly Substack subscription. (For pricing clarity, after the platform and Stripe take their cut, I earn just under £5 per session per participant, the same fees I charged in 2020.) Classes are optimised for morning timeslot in USA / Canada and pre-dinner slot in UK. We can adjust as necessary depending on students’ whereabouts.

After a sabbatical, I have resumed teaching T’ai Chi, Heartwork and Chi Kung in 121 lessons in Hexham and online. A residential in-person T’ai Chi retreat is planned for November 2026, Veneto, Italy. More details available in spring 2026.

121 and bespoke small group classes are now available with me in person in Hexham. You can also arrange to study with me online via Zoom. Get in touch via the form below to discuss your study.

Our Instagram has over 70 free short taichi, chi kung (qi gong), meditation lessons and much more.

Tooting Lido class on Wednesday mornings are running with Kev Devine, contact kevin [at] kevindevine [dot] co [dot] uk. Beginners are also welcome with my teacher on Tuesday nights in Tooting.

The annual T’ai Chi Centre summer weeklong workshop ran this year with my teacher in July 2025 in Kingston Upon Thames. Go to www.thetaichicentre.co.uk for details or to join him next year or in his London class in Tooting.

Our Classes

GRTC instructors offer a wide range of classes, where all levels are catered-for. But if you’re a total beginner then we offer classes online to help you learn the basics. The warm ups and much more are available now on our Instagram.

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students practising ‘sticking’ or ‘listening hands’, 2012

Our Instructors

Our instructors have studied to a high level with Caroline Ross, founder of GRTC and with T’ai Chi Master Mark Raudva, principal of The T’ai Chi Centre. Mark was a long time student of Dr John Kells who founded the BTCCA, the oldest T’ai Chi association in the UK, and who was the senior student of Dr Chi Chiang-Tao.