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 , ...

Lighthouse Aqua Tai Chi ® for pregnancy Real Tai Chi and Qigong in warm water, Lighthouse Aqua Tai Chi® is gentle, low impact, relaxing and mindful and offers all the benefits of tai chi ,   plus the recognized outcomes of water based exercise. It is on both the NHS website and Netmums Whether you are continuing exercising or just getting started during your pregnancy our specialised aqua tai chi sessions will give you the gentle workout you need, without the worry of bumping the bump, or adding pressure to aching feet and joints. Women who participate in aqua exercise during pregnancy experience less physical discomfort and improved mobility in addition for being physically prepared for childbirth. Aqua tai chi is safe at all stages of pregnancy unless your health professional recommends you do not exercise at all. The water helps to support your posture, to strengthen the core muscles, enhancing the stability of the abdomen and lower back, improving your balance, co-ordin...

  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 t...

 Day 14 Grouting is finished, the fountain bowl and new soil arrives Today we made a plan for the replanting we'd like as the new soil has been laid. Nearly all the plants have been saved in containers or another part of the garden. Big bin bags and the old blue recycling boxes have been very useful for holding plants when moving them and replanting. The black grouting for the patio was finished and will be set again for tomorrow. The corten steel bowl arrived.  This is going to been turned into a small pool and fountain to be placed in front of our Greenman wood carving. The reservoir was prepared today. Day 15 The Gateway & The Gravel Today Seb made a bespoke gateway to fit in with our theme. The soil was covered in a liner and the limestone chippings arrived. We've gone for a light colour with big chips - hopefully the local cats won't revenge themselves on it. We also realised that the other half of the garden had become a quagmire and so we've just put down gra...

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...