bute tai chi
Isle Of Bute
Testimonial
"Personal online Tai Chi lessons with Alex Swainson are improving my mobility,
my posture and my thinking. I've been having the lessons each week for nearly a
year. In spite of me having learnt Tai Chi about 20 years ago, Alex has
reintroduced me to the underlying principles and practice. He is a thoughtful
teacher, sharing the knowledge from his personal research into the movement and
balance of the human body and mind. He puts a strong emphasis on using the
natural force of gravity to move in the easiest, most effective and most
powerful way. I find it combats the mobility problems associated with ageing.
His teaching is supportive and informative, feeding back on the way I move as I
go through the Tai Chi form, picking up on the problems that he sees and working
on how to overcome them. He is a mine of information on the way the human body
works in terms of its posture, spine positions and movements, the movement of
joints and the working of the nervous system.
Through the 1 to 1 online relationship, Alex demonstrates the application of the
principles he has learnt and developed, both in demonstrating the Tai Chi form
but also in the movements that are necessary not just for good Tai Chi, but for
use and application in our everyday lives. Alex makes a recording of each
lesson which he sends to me to help with my practice during the time between
lessons. Learning online can sometimes be more difficult in explaining
movements or postures compared to face to face learning, where the teacher can
make physical interventions to show what's needed. However, the recordings are
invaluable for seeing things again, watching myself in action, picking up things
that Alex has said that I'd missed the significance of in the session itself.
Watching myself performing the Tai Chi form is often a revelation of the
difference between what I think I'm doing and what I'm actually doing!
I am getting a great deal out of the learning sessions. I have met a number of
Tai Chi teachers and in my experience Alex is as principled, thoughtful and
capable as a teacher as any that I have met. And I have worked with some good
ones. The lessons are challenging, no doubt about it. But Alex takes care to
work at my pace and is very clear that the learning I do for myself is the key
to the development of my understanding and the improvement of my practice.
Being able to move well in older age is a thing to treasure and nurture and in
this Alex is helping me enjoy my later life."
Offer Description
Learn Tai Chi at your own pace with expert guidance. Alex is a highly
experienced teacher with deep knowledge of the art, making him ideally suited to
one-to-one teaching.
Standing 60-minute slots are available on TUESDAYS ONLY.
Sessions can be purchased in blocks of 3 or 6 months, which includes video
recordings of each session as an essential reference for practice.
N.B. This offer is for people who want to seriously invest in their own
self-healing. If you are ready to commit to an authentic practice rooted in an
understanding of how to harness the forces of nature for health, wellbeing &
personal development, then I'm here for you.
THE OFFER COMES WITH A 30-DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE.
