Meditation & Qi Massages
Join some of our experienced tai chi teachers as they share their knowledge about meditation, mindfulness, breathwork and qi touch massages to help your health.
These four programs include:
- Tai Chi & Meditation with Tina Curran & Mark Preston: You will explore the history of meditation, it's interconnectedness to tai chi, and practice a number of qigong postures to help bring relaxation into the body
- Breathing & Meditation with Patrice & Patrick Wooldridge: Dive into the magic of bringing awareness to your breath and connecting it to your body as you practice multiple calming meditations.
- Qi Touch Massages - Part I with Tina Curran: You will be introduced to a number of qi massages that help your take care of your body and mind.
- Qi Touch Massages - Part II with Tina Curran & Kate Mansfield: You will continue to learn additional qi touch massages to enable you to bring health & vitality to your meridians & organs.
While knowing the tai chi form will help, you do not need to have learned the form to benefit from these programs. In some of these programs, you may choose to be standing, seated, or laying down.
Class Sections
Time In The Art
This is a series developed by TCF to allow experienced teachers to share their own personal tai chi learning journey. Oftentimes, this exploration ties back to the Five Excellences of Professor Cheng Man-Ch'ing - poetry, calligraphy, traditional chinese medicine, painting, and, of course, tai chi.
Classes are suitable for all levels of tai chi students and for anyone interested in starting their own journey.
Meet Your Teachers
Tina Curran
Tina Curran has been teaching Tai Chi, Five Element Qigong and meditation to students and teachers for many years including through Southampton Hospital's Wellness Institute and Center for Parkinson's Disease. She has taught in New York, England, Ireland, and more as a senior teacher in the Tai Chi Foundation.
Tina is a cancer survivor, grandmother and Early Childhood Educator who loves to play with writing and photography as well as her longstanding practice of Tai Chi.
Kate Mansfield
Kate has been teaching tai chi with the Tai Chi Foundation for over 20 years, in London, New York, and on Zoom. She currently practices 5 element acupuncture in Manhattan, New York, and teaches tai chi locally with the New York School of Tai Chi Chuan.
Mark Preston
T’ai Chi Chuan has been a daily nourishment for Mark since 1982 in London - inspiring him to qualify in Acupuncture, Medical Qigong and Tuina and lecture on the London College of Traditional Acupuncture’s degree course. Mark taught T'ai Chi with the London School for over thirty years and in 2014 founded Thames T'ai Chi & Qigong in Oxfordshire where he now lives and teaches. Learning how to sit still with the British Daoist Association has been a great enrichment in his life.
Patrick & Patrice Wooldridge
Patrick and Patrice Wooldridge have been studying tai chi and meditation for nearly 50 years each and teaching for about 40. They have practiced meditation and philosophy under a wide variety of teachers including Oscar Ichazo, H.H. Karmapa, Sheikh Yakzan and others.
About the Tai Chi Foundation
Our mission is to “To improve health, well-being, and awareness through the study, practice, and teaching of tai chi and qigong, by an increasing number of people worldwide.”
The Tai Chi Foundation (TCF) is a not-for-profit educational organization that develops and promotes programs that enable people to learn to practice, and ultimately teach, tai chi chuan and its internal principles.
Visit our website to learn more about our Foundation, find a local school, join an online tai chi class, and more!