London Tai Chi Instructors.

This week's events have been traumatic, to say the least. Every client I've seen has been in shock, as I am myself. So how to deal with the feelings? The help and support of friends and family is great, obviously, but we're all in pain together and switching off to it is very hard.

One thing I found that helps both myself and my clients is to do the tai chi form counting – these take so much concentration, that after an hour of doing purely that, both they and I had managed not to think ...

So many people are stressed, that they find it hard to relax into just being themselves. There's always a deadline, or a difficult task, or demanding people; always something that works against being relaxed.

When I first started tai chi, I was extremely stressed and one of my friends asked how I could possibly manage to go out to tai chi after work, but tai chi was the only time I could just do things, just work at my own pace, just be myself. Indeed, knowing I had tai chi in the eveni...

People keep asking me if they can lose weight doing tai chi. There are two answers to this – both yes and no apply:

I myself lost 20kg through doing tai chi and changing my diet. However, my intention hadn't been to lose weight – having tried a conventional diet and been driven mad by counting the minutes until the next bite of food was allowed, I'd given up on those. Also, at that time (ten years ago), I was living a truly unhealthy lifestyle – I'd go home, have a ready meal and fl...