Taoist Tai Chi is flexible, flowing, instinctive and certainly non linear.

It is the physical art of unblocking and balancing the flow of Chi energy through invisible energy channels called meridians, which run through and around the body.

Taoist Tai Chi has the quality of being spontaneous and circular – that is, coming back on itself, repeating endlessly rather that being linear. “Returning is the motion of the Tao” says the great classic Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu.

The yin yang symbol is the ultimate Taoist Tai Chi symbol it embodies a huge amount of philosophy in one modest symbol.

It signifies change, movement, dark and light, circular, returning and complementary balance.

The two dots symbolise that every form or event contains the seeds of its own opposite, that nothing is purely one thing or the other.

My Tai Chi Master, a gold medallist from Malaysia is an amazing Chen Tai Chi Master.

Watching him he flows silently into a space that is not controlled by physical movements his actions are fluid, strong and so graceful and always soft and relaxed.

He tells me “when chi (the body’s internal force) flows strongly, the body moves with the chi, you don’t move it, the chi moves it”.

I am honoured to have a Chen Tai Chi Master of this calibre to teach me.

Even though my Tai Chi Master is not religious, his Tai Chi Master is Taoist from the famous Wudang Mountains in China.

In China certain mountains are considered sacred and are either Taoist or Buddhist.

The Wudang Mountains are Taoist with some amazing Taoist Masters and Temples throughout that region.

Our Tai Chi Academy Perth and our Tai Chi Academy Fremantle are full time dedicated learning centres for martial arts.

We teach Chen Tai Chi, 18 Lohan Qigong (reputed to be the oldest recorded Qigong system) and Choy Li Fut Kung Fu for children and adults.

The Tai Chi Academy Perth is easily accessed just off the Mitchell Freeway in Balcatta and our Tai Chi Academy Fremantle is situated in O’Connor.

We run classes for all skill and ability levels including Tai Chi for beginners.

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