OUR TAI CHI CLASSES
Our classes are held at Freckleton Memorial Hall every Sunday at 7.30pm*
Each class is one hour and costs £5 per class.
The classes are a mixture of beginners and intermediate students. You don’t need any experience, you don’t need to book - just turn up on the night. A typical class will be a mixture of young and old, male and female, martial artists and people purely practising Tai Chi for health. Clothing should be loose and/or stretchy. Footwear is optional. Pumps or trainers are fine.
A class is as strenuous or as steady as you want to make it. We start with a warm up to get your body ready to move and exercise, and a class will then typically be a varying selection of:
Forms - the specific traditional movements and sequences of Tai Chi
Silk reeling - fundamental exercises teaching structure and moving the body as a unit
Push hands - 2 person exercises teaching how to sense and react to ‘opponents’ movements
Qigong - traditional Chinese movement sequences for stretching, strength, balance, breathing and what is currently, popularly referred to as ‘mindfulness’ (though the principle has existed in Chinese culture for hundreds of years)
Weapon forms - Tai Chi includes forms for the use of weapons such as swords, poles and fans
Application - where we learn and practice potential martial purposes of Tai Chi moves
*or turn up at 6.30pm and do an hour of Taekwondo first! The combined price to do both classes is £8.
