Lighthouse Tai Chi®

classes include Tai Chi & Qigong join anytime Classes are 1 hour except Aqua 45 minutes All sessions open to beginners Burnley & Accrington classes require advanced booking For venues and booking information, visit our Venues page or Tap Centre Name to visit their website or use our Lighthouse Map MONDAY 10.00    Trawden Community Centre,                Trawden, Pendle 13.00    Adrenaline Centre ,             Haslingden, Rossendale 14.00    Adrenaline Centre,             Haslingden, Rossendale TUESDAY 10.00   Sion Baptist Church,                Church St. Burnley 13.00    West Craven Sports Centre,                Barnoldswick WEDNESDAY 10.00    Pendle Leisure Centre , Colne 11.00    Pendle Leisure Centre , Colne 11.00    Aqua Tai Chi, Bury Leisure                Ramsbottom Pool & Fitness Centre 14.00    Adrenaline Centre,                Haslingden, Rossendale 19.00    Adrenaline Centre ,                Qigong Wellbeing Session                Haslingden, Rossendale

In this edition: · World Tai Chi Day Free Online · Latest weekly class timetable · Holiday Closures · Free Tai Chi in Whitaker Park Lighthouse Tai Chi® and Lighthouse Aqua Tai Chi® t-shirts, sweatshirts, jackets, hoodies, and gilets are available to order from classes. All orders are made to your request and must be paid for by credit or debit card in advance. Order forms and colour charts are available at classes. Please note we cannot accept cash payments. The Spring/Summer order closes on Friday 30th March. Delivery will be to your selected class venue after Easter. Please check our terms and conditions on the order forms.  World Tai Chi Day 2024  Saturday 27th April at 10am World Tai Chi & Qigong Day is held each year in over 80 nations on the last Saturday of April each year, at 10 am local time all over the world. It begins with mass Tai Chi, Chi Kung, and Mind Body events in the earliest time zones of New Zealand, and then spreads at the world turns, 10

  Names and understanding The use of poetic and functional names in Tai Chi and Qigong can be difficult to decipher or simplistically obvious. When we first hear some of the names of the postures, it can be amusing and confusing: ‘ part wild horse’s mane’, ‘ twin dragons emerge from the sea ’ and ‘ stand like a tree .’ What we need to appreciate is that these names are translations from the original Chinese. So, with as with any translation, things can be lost in the process. Much of the knowledge of tai chi and qigong was traditionally encoded in poetic form or as a song. Many of the students would not have been literate, so the names aided in the memorising of the sequence and its applications. Additionally cultural and philosophical differences, along with the inherent secrecy of martial arts culture, could lead you to misunderstandings and getting the wrong end of the stick. However, when we hear these names, we instantly get a picture or concept in our mind. Combining this

Our guest blog for August is by  Judith Van Drooge.  Judith is a very accomplished tai chi instructor whom we have admired for many years, and is particularly known to us for her tai chi sword expertise and passion for sharing.  We asked her to provide a short, personal article about her feelings and experience of tai chi sword, with some links for you to find out more. The lovely flow of these words is an art in itself, we hope you will enjoy reading and re-reading it as much as we do. She has practised Yang Lineage Tai Chi Chuan with Luis Molera and Grandmaster William C.C. Chen since 1999, with great pleasure and devotion. Judith is an all-round practitioner who successfully competed in national and international tournaments attaining gold, silver and bronze medals in Forms (weapons), Chi Kung and Push Hands.  Judith has her own school Inner Touch Tai Chi in Zwolle, the Netherlands and has been a regular teacher at most of the major European Tai Chi events.  "To embody the

Be Consistent To acquire a skill or to remember a process or action takes time and practice.  When we begin to learn a new skill or pastime it is important to invest time if we want to progress and improve our understanding or skill. Tai Chi and Qigong are no different.  Consistency in practice takes many forms: being present and attending, understanding and engage with learning, home practice and research. Turn up regularly. Life tends to get in the way of what you really want to pursue, so turn up to your lesson every week. Repetition is the key to reinforcing a new habit/skill/movement, and you will need to have corrections to keep you on the right track. If you leave long gaps between your practice, you will not remember much, if anything from the previous session, so you will always be relearning the postures at the same level and will not progress. Treating the session as a workout, just following, and copying, and not engaging with actually learning to do it for yourself, wi