Christmas holidays

Classes are officially over for 2017 and start again the week of Monday 8 January.

Have a wonderful Christmas and a happy qi-filled new year.

Christmas tree for URC Christmas Tree Festival

We had fun in class at the United Reformed Church St Helens today, getting ready for the Christmas Tree Festival. We did some tai chi and qigong too. Thank you to my lovely creative students who did a fantastic job on the tree.

Beijing 10 step form

For Kyle as promised, here is Master Faye Li Yip doing the Beijing 10 step form. It's a lovely little form if you don't have very much space to practise in.

Shoes for tai chi

This is for Chris who was asking about it. As you know, I prefer to do tai chi barefoot, but that's just me.

You can get special shoes for tai chi. It's worth checking out the Tai Chi Link website as they are having a clearance sale on shoes at the moment.

I also find the Vivobarefoot ones are good as they have flexible soles.

And there are always yoga socks if you want something with a bit of grip but not too much.

I hope this helps. Don't forget to keep voting for BHQA every day here.

Vote for BHQA

Please go to this link and vote for BHQA for our work on world health qigong day. We worked really hard to get demonstrations in across the country. You don't need to be a member, you need to vote for 3 organisations. Anyone can vote. You can vote daily from 1-15 November. 😁 😁 😁 😁http://ihqfo.shandongyuanhe.com

new class at Chapter One Tea Rooms

There are still places available in the new tai chi and qigong class starting at Chapter One Tea Rooms in Hindley this Wednesday 1 November at 2.30pm. Classes are at the reduced rate of £3.50/session and this first one is free for everyone. The nice people at Chapter One Tea Rooms have even offered to throw in a free pot of tea. Call or email to book your place.

Forever Friends performance

I'm back now after our debut performance on the London stage. It's been a lot of hard work with many challenges and difficulties along the way. In the end Faye Li Yip's vision won through them all as you can see in the video above. I'm so glad to have had the opportunity to take part in this.

Here are some pictures taken by Joanne's husband Julian.