Tai Chi Movements for Wellbeing (TMW)
Welcome to this TMW page; Tai Chi Movements for Wellbeing!
A simple, accessible practice for greater calm, well-being, and a deeper connection with yourself. These movements are designed to give yourself the time and space to settle into your body and be present – right where you are.
TMW is a nourishing practice that can help you:
- find greater calm, balance, and grounding
- release physical and mental tension
- connect more deeply with your body, breath, and natural self
- strengthen your sense of presence and inner flow
- face challenging times with greater clarity and self-care
In Tai Chi Movements for Wellbeing, we create space for the body’s natural state of presence and rest. Through embodied presence, you can experience a greater balance, calm, deeper flow and vitality. This connection serves as a wonderful foundation for deeper relationship with yourself, others, and the natural world of which we are a part; for listening more deeply, meeting life with greater presence, and allowing our choices and actions to arise from a more conscious, holistic grounding.
TMW draws on decades of experience in Tai Chi and Qigong, brought together in an inspiring sequence of simple, easy-to-learn movements. It is a holistic practice that combines movement, meditation, and self-care
No prior experience is needed. Beginners and experienced participants are warmly welcome to take part and feel the benefits of these wonderful movements!
About me
Of all unlikely places for a meditative practice, my very first introduction to Tai Chi began in 1998 on a winter’s night, in a car park in Glasgow city centre! My friend showed me the first few moves and following on from that, I joined a weekly class… the first steps on a long and rich journey towards my ongoing connection with TMW!
At the outset, I felt a little restless at the softness of this practice and I thought I might need something more physically challenging. However, as the practice invited me deeper in, I realised that this experience of presence, release and deep listening was truly what I needed more than anything else. And it still is many years on. It doesn’t matter how many times I’ve explored the sequence or a single movement- it is only boring if I forget to listen. The moving meditation of TMW helps me to notice where I lose myself, and where I find myself, again and again. With softness, with slow and careful listening, I feel and notice areas that easily can be hidden by my own ‘habits of survival’. And as the practice ripples and integrates into lived life, I am less caught by the surviving of life and more able to respond to, and to live, life.
Through years of my own Tai Chi practice in Scotland, England and Norway, it has been wonderful to witness and join in the natural unfolding and development of TMW. I have held my own TMW groups, as well as co-teaching and assisting on teacher trainings and other gatherings since 2005. I really love how the simple and accessible form of TMW makes the essence shine clearly. I find that I can share this essence in many other settings and courses that I hold as well – because of the universal truth at our base as human beings. I feel deeply grateful to have found this path in my life, to support me and to remind me to return to centre and express who I truly am.
Since that first discovey of Tai Chi in 1998, I have continued to immersed myself in the essence of conscious presence, flow, and natural expression. I have been part of numerous classes, deepening circles and retreats, learning from fellow travellers and in particular the wonderful teachings from Richard Farmer, and in latter years with TMW; Marigold Farmer and Andrea Bailey.
Since 2003, I have taught Tai Chi, Chi Kung, TMW, and Soul Moves in Scotland, England, and Norway—working with organizations, at retreats and festivals, and with private groups.
In the times we live in, I particularly value practices that foster presence, connection and perspective. Nurturing my capacity to relate and act, with the quality of both in-breath, and out-breath.
Here is a link to TMWtraining.com; the UK based central school of TMW training.