Tai Chi Coventry

30/04/2026

A gentle reminder that our Tai Chi classes will be taking a six-week break, starting from 2 May, and will resume on 13 June. We’ll look forward to coming back together then, refreshed and ready to move as one again.

During this break, please remember that your practice continues. We encourage you to keep up a little Tai Chi each day at home—keeping the body soft and moving, the mind steady, and the form alive. Even a few mindful minutes daily will help you maintain your progress and connection.

Enjoy this time to deepen your own rhythm of practice, and we look forward to seeing everyone again very soon.

11/02/2026

Tai Chi is a lively and dynamic martial art, rich with the spirit and qualities of many animals. From the coiling of the snake and the lightness of the bird, to the essence of the Five Animal forms (bear, tiger, ox, horse, and monkey), the alertness of the cat also has its place within it.
You might first think of a cat catching a mouse, but in this clip, Master Chang presents a lesser-seen interpretation: the moment a cat is suddenly startled—shifting from deep stillness to explosive speed, from utmost softness to sudden firmness in an instant. This fleeting reaction embodies the Tai Chi principle of stillness and movement giving rise to each other, and of softness and hardness transforming into one another.

📜太極拳是一門充滿生機與靈動的武術，其中蘊含著各種動物的神韻與形態。從蛇的纏行、鳥的輕靈，到五禽之意（熊、虎、牛、馬、猴），當中也少不了貓的敏銳與機警。或許你會聯想到靈貓捕鼠的畫面，但在本片中，張老.....

07/12/2025

As Christmas draws near, we’ll be taking a little break from our group practice and will start up again on 10 January. Wishing everyone a safe, joyful, and relaxing holiday—can’t wait to see everyone again in the new year!

20/10/2025

Winter Classes now open. Beginners are welcome!

31/08/2025

Thought-provoking , though some points may invite further reflection. For example, he suggests that the principles of I Ching were never applied to ancient science, yet its influence clearly extended to astronomy, ecology, medicine, and even warfare strategy and deployment. He also views divination as reflecting only the present moment, whereas the hexagrams and their texts also convey the dynamics of change over time. Even so, this introduction offers an original and engaging point of entry into the topic.

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14/07/2025

Tai Chi finds its roots in traditional martial arts, where the practice of forms has long stood as the foundation of mastery. Within these flowing routines lie not only the essentials of daily training, but also the profound intent and wisdom woven by the art’s originators—carried in every posture and the subtle transitions between them.
In this video, Master Charlie Chang presents the Opening Posture of Wang’s Water Style Tai Chi, illuminating its methods of practice and the principles behind its application.

太極拳源自傳統武術，而套路訓練向來是習武之基。套路不僅是每日練習的基本功，更蘊藏創拳者於每招每式，以至過渡動作中的深層用意與智慧。張希榮老師在本片介紹了王氏水性太極拳的起勢動作，並說明其練習方法與應用...

04/07/2025

Spring Within – A Water Style Tai Chi Meditation
(Inspired by Malvern’s Living Wells)

Beneath the hill, the water waits—
Not rushing, not still—
But aware.
Like breath before it forms a word.
I raise my hands, the spring responds.
A current flows—not seen, but felt.
From heel to crown, the wave ascends,
Returning always to the ground.
No force.
No striving.
Only the yielding that reveals the Way.
The water of Malvern—so pure,
So silent—
Has no enemy.
It shapes the stone with patient touch.
In movement, I remember:
The pool does not resist the wind.
The stream does not fear the fall.
And I too—bend, and rise, and flow.
I breathe—and the hillside breathes as one.
I turn—and the stars turn with me.
Between each step,
A stillness deeper than time.
This is Tai Chi—
Not form, but return.
Not strength, but surrender.
Not doing… but being done.
Drink from the well within.
Let the spring renew what thought has clouded.
And when you bow—
Feel the whole sky bowing with you.

- Malvern Hills, 22 June 2025.

《內在之泉——水性太極靜觀》
（靈感來自馬文山的活泉）

山腳下，水在靜候——
不急不止，
然覺知常在，
如同言語未出前的一口氣。
我提起雙手，泉水在回應，
湧動的脈流——無形，卻可感知。
從足跟至百會，波浪上升，
又再歸根落地。
無力，
無爭，
唯順勢而行，乃見道之所在。
馬文山之水——清澈無瑕，
寂然無聲——
故無敵也。
以柔馴石，時光作筆。
動中猶記：
池水不抗風，
溪流不怕墜；
我亦俯仰隨緣，流轉不息。
一呼一吸，山也共息；
一轉身——星也隨。
步履之間，
深藏時間之靜。
是即太極——
非形，乃歸；
非力，乃讓；
非行……乃被行。
飲自內泉，
讓清流洗盡思緒之塵。
當你一彎腰——
讓蒼穹與你同俯身。

15/06/2025

PRACTISING TAI CHI IN THE LIBRARY
- Korman

Stillness in motion—like drifting cloud and stream,
Words hang in the air; the breath flows back unseen.
Each posture unfolds, the breeze holds no sound,
Ten thousand volumes open as the hands move round.
Pages turn silently, matching every pace,
From the dantian stirs a stroke, like brush in grace.
Say not that writing and martial ways divide—
Tai Chi, too, is a scholar’s guide.

- Finham Library, Saturday morning 14 June 2025

《在圖書館打太極》
動中猶静如雲水，
書香繚繞氣自回。
一式緩展風不語，
萬卷沉思掌下開。
書頁無聲隨步轉，
丹田微運似揮毫。
莫道文武分兩界，
太極也是讀書台。

16/05/2025

When Niels Bohr was knighted in 1947, he got to design his own coat of arms — and interestingly, he chose the yin-yang symbol, which comes from Tai Chi philosophy. He wasn’t practicing Tai Chi as a martial art, but he was deeply inspired by the ideas behind it.

Bohr was famous for the concept of complementarity in quantum physics — the idea that two seemingly opposite things, like particles and waves, can both be true, depending on how you look at them. That’s a lot like the yin-yang idea from Chinese philosophy, where opposites like light and dark or active and passive are actually interconnected and balanced.

To really drive the point home, Bohr even added a Latin motto to his coat of arms:
“Contraria sunt complementa,” which means “Opposites are complementary".

So, for Bohr, the yin-yang wasn’t just a cool design — it perfectly captured the way he thought about the universe.

12/04/2025

Tai Chi Coventry will pause on 19th April for the holiday and return the following week. Until then, move with ease and let life flow.