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Tai Chi is a gentle very low impact form of exercise. Suitable for all ages and abilities. It encompasses breathing exercises and slow stretching techniques often in patterns and forms. It enhances flexibility, increases strength and stamina, thereby enhancing feelings of well-being.
Incorporating mental imagery and relaxation, it is excellent way of dealing with stress and stress related disorders and has many health benefits found with regular practice

Dowken
School of Tai Chi
for Well Being

Insured with Embody Complementary Therapist Association and
The Martial Arts Development Commission. Instructors CRB Certified.
Programmes Accreditation with the World Budo Kai.

DowKen partners with Lincolnshire Sports Partnership; Lincolnshire ‘Heelers’ Health Referral Scheme; NHS Lincolnshire; East Lindsey District Council; Boston County Council; and Tanglewood Residential Care Homes; acknowledge Tai Chi benefits.

Join us for regular weekly sessions to aid all health related conditions. ‘Chi in the Chair’ is a regular part of classes. Private 1:1 tuition or small groups. Gentle movement of the appropriate limbs provides stretching and re aligning meridian energy results in relief to aches and pains of a muscular or skeletal nature. Develop abilities to relax at will, reduce headaches and tension in your lives in a warm friendly environment.

Ring Heather or Ken to find out more about individual benefits, and fun classes.
NO subscription fees, you only pay when you attend.

CLASSES
Lincolnshire :in Alford; Burgh-Le-Marsh; Spilsby; Skegness and Wrangle. Email dowkentaichi@btinternet.com or call Heather: 01754 881168; mob: 07765 473 902.

Yorkshire: in Hull with associate Clubs in Leven and Beverley.
Email: webster140@webster.karoo.co.uk or call 01482 326037

The Origins of the Ba Duan Jin (Eight Pieces of Brocade )go back almost a thousand years to General Yeuh Fei who taught a system of basic breathing and stretching Exercises to his Army to help them keep fit and improve Morale in unfavourable circumstances. As they were encamped in cramped dangerous and Mountainous surroundings and to venture out would have been perilous due to bandits and wild animals. The improvement was incredible and the small band soon became invincible

The Forms and exercises of this system of Tai Chi incorporate Chi Gung ( Breathing exercises) and short patterns of slow movement emphasising posture and stretching many with their origins within the Martial Arts ( Shaolin Ch’uan Fa System )