Lishi Taoist Tai Chi is fluid yet precise. You learn to feel your body’s natural energies with the Tai Chi form and Tai Chi dance. The practice is relaxing and energising at the same time. It leads to inner peace and stability.

In many different partner exercises we discover, in a fun way, how we react to stress and what takes us out of balance and of course, how can we stay in balance and act with more peace and more power.

Qi Gong Meditation – The essence of life is breath. In Lishi we learn how to use the breath to help us concentrate and develop a quiet mind. The practise of Lishi Qi Gong helps you develop “staying power”.
We place a special focus on specific respiratory Lishi Qi Gong and Dao Yin. These therapeutic respiratory exercises increase the lung volume and oxygen intake, promote healthy organ function and a stronger cardiovascular system, and they increase your vitality and well-being significantly.

Lishi Taoist Yoga contains dozens of distinct stances and postures and movement sequences that promote relaxation, mindfulness and flexibility. It doesn’t matter whether you are unfit or an Olympic athlete, the abilities of each individual are catered for and extended gradually in a natural way. You will achieve a greater flexibility and suppleness and experience the opening of your energy channels releasing a natural flow of vital energy throughout your body.

Weapons Training – We learn to understand the energies of the different elements through the practise of ancient forms with tools such as the Tai Chi Sword, Feng Shou Sabre, the Yin and Yang Staff and the Hand of the Wind Silk. When your skill, precision and concentration is developed to a high enough level you might be introduced to the full range of partner exercises using weapons. This high level training can take years to access and decades to master.

Lishi Taoist YANG Arts is the more dynamic component of the Lishi training system. The faster paced movements are used for training coordination, cardio-vascular stamina, presence of mind, precise smooth motion and self-defence.
In addition to various forms with and without weapons, we work with partners to help improve our understanding of the human body and the flow of energy. We learn to practise through cooperation and not competition.  The class can be adapted for all fitness levels, but it is possible to build to fast flowing motions, similar in look to other martial arts.

We typically think of self-defence on a physical level, but emotionally and mentally, we are attacked every day, frequently by ourselves!  

Feng Shou, as with the other Lishi Arts, is based on Daoist principles – we do not fight, we do not compete, we do not get injured.  The Lishi YANG Arts classes are active and physically engaging, with the soft style, non-competitive self-defence like movement.

Training in the various Lishi Arts affects positive change in people’s lives for an improvement in physical, mental, emotional health and spiritual well-being.  If you are the kind of person that wants an activity that gives you tools to start taking control of your life – Lishi is for you.