Deutschland Taijiquan & Qigong Netzwerk - 20th Anniversary

Sunday 24 May 2009 at 11:34 pm A visit to Hamburg to join the 20th Anniversary celebrations of the Taijiquan & Qigong Netzwerk - Deutschland - 20th Anniversary (more)

Why Tai Chi?

Saturday 23 May 2009 at 3:08 pm Why would I practice tai chi? (more)

Full Curriculum Class

Saturday 23 May 2009 at 2:57 pm Coming to and end.......

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Aquavenice 2008

Saturday 16 August 2008 at 1:31 pm In early August 2008 I travelled once again to Venice, Italy as a guest of Franco Mescola for his annual Aquavenice event. After arriving in Venice we travelled on the local boat taxi to the nearby island of St Erasmo and then a 15 minute walk to the centre where the event was being staged.

Aquavenice runs over two long weekends, one 'Yin' and one 'Yang' focussing primarily on qigong and tuishou/applications aside from the ongoing general training of Franco's students. The other teachers included Sue Woodd, Gianni Grapelli, of Switzerland, Marianne Plouvier from Paris and, of course, Franco himself. Franco and Sue I had just left a couple of weeks ago, as teachers at my annual Tai Chi Caledonia event in the heart of Scotland. Gianni was teaching at Aquavenice last year but I hadn't seen Marianne for some years. She was an ex-collegue from the Taijiquan & Qigong Federation for Europe and it was delightful to spend time in her company once more.

St Erasmo is a beautiful island with good food, lovely weather and excellent beaches. Franco offers a comprehensive training programme which, although focussed primarily for his students offers much for any practioner of tai chi or chi kung. Whilst I was there Marianne taught San Shou, Franco taught spiralling energy work, and Gianni and i taught push hands and applications. We worked outdoors in the shade of olive trees with a pleasant cooling breeze. The food was good, the conditions were excellent and the food and wine was delicious. Not a bad job sometimes!

A fuller report will appear at: Chiron Tai Chi website

Recontres Jasnieres 2008

Wednesday 30 July 2008 at 10:11 pm
21st Recontres Jasnieres - July 2008, Marcon, France

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Tai Chi Caledonia 2008

Wednesday 30 July 2008 at 9:29 pm The 13th Tai Chi Caledonia - July 2008 (more)

Chiron News - Welcome!

Monday 07 July 2008 at 11:17 am Thanks for looking in at our news pages. Here is where I'll be posting comments stories and updates on the work of teaching tai chi & chi kung, in Glasgow, Scotland and beyond! So here we are, the first entry, what can I say?

Now the main thrust of regular classes is over for the summer season and I'll be off to a number of tai chi events, here and abroad.

Tai Chi Caledonia plans are going well for the 13th event which begins this Friday 11th July at Stirling University, Scotland.

After that it's the annual pilgrimage to Recontres Jasnieres in France where I'll be teaching push hands & chi kung. Over 300 people are expected and hopefully the weather will be kind to us.

Late July/August it's Aquavenice, on the beautiful island of St. Erasmo, hosted by Franco Mescola.

Bookmark this page and you can follow my exploits over the summer and beyond!

New Look

Monday 30 June 2008 at 10:21 am

The website is being extensively rewritten. There are many under the hood changes. some URLs may be broken.
The update will mean that the site becomes more flexible and will have more up-to-date information regularly.
Please email me if you find anything that is broken.