About Us

Traditional Tai Chi

David Hunt Tai Chi has a focus on the continuous development and understanding of the active elements that make Tai Chi such a powerful form of exercise and self discovery.  The core practice remains the traditional Yang Family Long form and Qigong exercises.  However, two short forms are available;

PartOne Short form; ideal for beginners, developed from the opening section of the Long form.

SmallSpace form; a sequence of postures developed for students during pandemic lockdowns.

Embodied Tai Chi

Embodied Tai Chi is a somatic approach to learning enabling every student to find and validate their own best posture and movement.  We seek to interpret traditional mystical or esoteric concepts as human biological experience making them accessible to as many people as possible.  Our teaching aim is to develop personal wellbeing rather than purist martial application.  Embodied Tai Chi is a great form of meditation for people who don’t do traditional meditation.

Embodied Tai Chi practice requires the development of five key elements; stable posture, soft calm compassionate intention, breathing, paying attention to inner sensations and feelings that with practice develop an inner connectivity - effortless flowing mindful movement.

Everyday Tai Chi

Tai Chi is not an end in itself, we have no certificates, belts or awards.  Practicing Tai Chi helps us to develop a physically relaxed and open posture while at the same time being calm and compassionate to ourselves and others.  This inner calm can help us to connect with our natural world, ‘Awe Tai Chi’.  This calm state also seems to make room for intuition - inspiration, allowing our creative self to effortlessly unfold. 

So Tai Chi is a way of being ‘Tao’.  A more affective way to do whatever we need to do in our everyday life rather than an end in itself.  The elements of Embodied Tai Chi practice can become incorporated in everyday activities like ‘Tai Chi Walking’.  Tai Chi can therefore be a helpful form of cross training, to this end we continue to develop stand alone learning opportunities for arts, sport and wellbeing activities.

‘Embodied Tai Chi is a way of knowing what we don’t know we already know’

David Hunt 2022