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Our current timetable for aqua sessions for the benefits and general information, please visit our dedicated page ,  or scroll down to find your class Or click on the picture above to watch our short introduction video Wednesdays  11am – 11.45am Ramsbottom Venue : Ramsbottom Pool & Fitness Centre,  Stubbins Lane, Ramsbottom BL0 0PT   Prices & Bookings Tel 0161 253 7000 Fridays  9am – 9.15am Whitworth, Rossendale Whitworth Leisure Centre Venue: Whitworth Leisure Centre, John Street, Whitworth, Rochdale OL12 8BT Prices & Bookings Tel: 01706 801770 Opens 17th October 2024 Fridays  11am – 11.45am Barnoldswick Venue: West Craven Sports Centre Kelbrook Road, Barnoldswick, BB18 5TB Prices & Bookings Tel 01282 666710 Our Safeguarding & DBS Policy Our Data Protection Policy Our Social Media, Filming & Photography Policy Our Trademarks & Copyright Return to home page

This month we have another guest blog:  The 5 Elements Theory  is by our esteemed colleague and friend Heather Reade (MFHT) .  Heather has been teaching Tai Chi and Qigong since 1999 in England and the US and provides courses for the NHS, in addition to Active West Lancs, MacMillan Cancer Care; the U3A; Twinkle House Sensory and Wellness Centre and primary schools in Liverpool and Lancashire.  In 2009, she created Water Lotus Qigong, a hydrotherapy, which has been used in the US and UK for the alleviation of pain, arthritis, and fibromyalgia. She is also, a qualified Sports Therapist, and Ear Acupuncturist.  To find out more about Heather and to request any further information, please visit website  Heather Reade School of Tai Chi and QiGong The 5 Elements, or Wu Xing (woo sshing), is a system used to categorise and explain patterns of transformation in the universe.  Wu Xing 五行  Wu = five  Xing = movement, transformation, phase Dating bac...

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 you...

Guest blog this month  Instructor Ashley Cheeseman, who teaches in Orpington, Kent.  We have invited him to tell you about the wonderful Tai Chi Caledonia event held in July every year, in Stirling, Scotland.  Read on and discover new possibilities and perhaps 2022 is the year to go along and find out for yourself. " For anyone that’s never been heard about Tai Chi Caledonia, I will let you in on a great weekend /week of Tai Chi and related arts taught by some of Europe’s finest instructors as well as a home team as well. 2015 The official line is, Tai Chi Caledonia offers high-quality teaching of Tai Chi Chuan, Qigong and other Chinese Internal Arts, here in the beautiful, natural environment of Stirling University Campus in the heart of Scotland. This is an understatement, as we found out, its mind blowing, happy, no holds barred teaching. We have been on three occasions now and each time it just gets better, on my last trip in 2018, twelve of us went and it...

Day 1: Tuesday 2nd February 2021 we broke ground.  Exciting times ahead as all the preparation work is now started and the weather gods have been kind. Seb Wilcock and his crew have been with us bright and early to move the plants we wanted to save, check over the design plans, make any adjustments and get started. The first job was to get the old paving stones removed and move the plants. They found even older paving stones underneath. We made this short video to help document the progress Day 2: The Digger On Wednesday, t he digger arrived to get the tree stumps and roots out of the garden and level the ground.  Next door's littlest is celebrating his birthday and him and his big brother were very excited about the digging and machines.  As we live on a slope the red line is showing where we now need to fill to even off the ground. We had erosion towards the oak stump.  There were some fabulous roots unearthed but yet to find any archaeology or Saxon Gold.  Th...

Lighthouse is very pleased to welcome our first guest blog by Wild Goose Qigong and Tai Chi Instructor Sue Johnson. Sue is an accomplished teacher and student of Chinese Martial Arts and someone we hold in high esteem.  We hope you will enjoy discovering Wild Goose Qigong with Sue and want to find out more. Wild Goose Qigong -  A Daoist Qigong System Almost 2000 years old, this Daoist system of Qigong is quite vast, originally consisting of 72 forms!   Wild Goose Qigong looks more like Tai Chi as the movements are forms and not separate movements.  Similar in length to the Chen Style Tai Chi, or the Long Yang style form, it takes around 10 minutes to perform the first routine, known as the 1 st 64 (number of movements).   Beginners should then repeat this routine twice daily. Yang Meijun Kept secret until 1978 the previous Grandmaster, Yang Meijun decided to make some of the system public, initially opening up 12 forms. Most are a little shorter than the...