Longwater Tai Chi - Circling Hands Chi Gung

A workshop with Brian Cooper

Longwater Tai Chi is proud to host an event by one of our teachers, Brian Cooper, on Saturday 31st July 2010 at Radnor Hall, Bodenham.

Circling hands is a basic set of movements designed to initiate the power of circularity into your nervous system. Learning these movements also greatly helps students to achieve the opening & closing of the joints and cavities of the body. For tai chi, learning opening & closing is the key to “riding the waves” that makes tai chi so pleasurable and gives the most healing effect. For chi gung practitioners, skill in circling hands will supercharge your other chi gungs, especially Dragon & Tiger and Marriage of Heaven and Earth.

Beginners will be introduced to the method of opening & closing the easiest joints to get you started. Advanced students will work on the more difficult joints, or even the cavities of the body. This will then be incorporated into the circling hands and tai chi.

The movements of Tai Chi are composed of three primary circles. These circles are often combined to create spirals within the Tai Chi movements. Even simple looking circles may have complex internal processes which can not be seen.

This workshop will explore these primary circles in the form of exercises to enable students to understand the internal processes. Then small sections of tai chi form, or chi gung forms will be practised in order to integrate the internal processes into the forms.

This workshop is open to all Tai Chi & Chi Gung practitioners of any style, as well as complete beginners.

If you are interested to book (highly recommended!) or have any enquires please email us at or call Patrick Foley 01725 514546.