Beginners class with my teacher in South London

My teacher Mark Raudva of The T’ai Chi Centre is welcoming beginners for the first time in many years, Tuesday nights, 7-8.15pm, Holy Trinity Church Hall, near Tooting Bec tube. Classes cost £15 and details can be found here. There is no class on 7th March 2023, classes resume on 14th. I will be attendingContinue reading “Beginners class with my teacher in South London”

An early winter workshop

I am freshly home from 3 days studying with my T’ai Chi Master in South London at his first ‘early winter long weekend’. As ever, I learned so much and had a great time pushing hands with my classmates. Not enough is said of the deep ongoing conviviality that comes with moving around rooms withContinue reading “An early winter workshop”

Softness

There is a line that comes to me at least once every week. Like so many things that have made a deep impression on me, and changed the way I go about my daily life, they were first spoken by my late T’ai Chi grandmaster John Kells. He said, ‘Softness is when our physicality noContinue reading “Softness”

A place to practice

It’s been a while since I posted. There was a huge fire where I lived and I lost my studio, half of all my possessions, my community, place in nature and the river, which had been my home for 8 years. But I am well, no one was hurt and life has changed in soContinue reading “A place to practice”