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Monday

Peter Southwood's tips #6 Weekend sessions

Take advantage of the weekend morning to get a good 3 hour session of practice completed early in the day.
Train everything that you neglected during the week.
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Sifu Waller

Sifu Waller

Mrs Rachel Waller

Mrs Rachel Waller

Experience

Sifu Waller has 40 years martial arts experience, 25 years tai chi and bagua practice (10 years full-time), 20 years Master/disciple relationship with Peter Southwood and 30,000 hours of training behind him.

He has been teaching since 1995.
He has 3 lineage disciples.

Sifu Waller obtained a post-graduate professional teaching qualification from The University of Leeds.

He is also registered with The Tai Chi Union for Great Britain.

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  • Newcastle Tai Chi
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  • Newcastle Tai Chi blog 2
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Yang Lu-chan
Yang Lu-chan made tai chi chuan famous by teaching his art to the Manchu Emperor's elite palace guards

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Rachel's blogs

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My Blog List

  • taichi heartwork
    - It's a great life, if you don't weaken.
    23 minutes ago
  • The Rambling Taoists
    I Ching: Hexagram 32 - The Judgment - *DURATION. Success. No blame. Perseverance furthers. It furthers one to have somewhere to go.* Duration is a state whose movement is not worn down by hind...
    29 minutes ago
  • Cloud Hands
    High in the Hawthorn Tree - Today, I stay at home all day. My Friday work projects include: improving the sunny garden, mowing and weeding in the front lawn, and watering. I also pl...
    3 hours ago
  • The Soul of Japan
    Reconstruction: Decolonizing the Japanese Mind and Saving the Race - Reconstruction Decolonizing the Japanese mind: The Ruse Island Mentality isn't unique at all. Commonly held expressions like " we Japanese" or " the...
    10 hours ago
  • Striking Thoughts
    The more things change… - Musings: A combination of Fist in the Frost’s latest blog post and a recent visit from an old friend got me thinking about the above quote. I’ll spare you ...
    1 day ago
  • Internal Kung Fu
    - For your practice to be uniquely tai chi, it must address the Tai Chi Classics, 13 postures, jing, 4 ounces of pressure, softness and yielding. If it does n...
    1 day ago
  • Classical Tai Chi Blog
    "....Classical Wu Style Tai Chi with other martial arts..." - *Master Hwa's Florida "Roots" "Mastering others is strength": There is no end to the use of strength and there will always be others who are stronger, othe...
    1 day ago
  • Mokuren Dojo - Aikido and Judo
    Knife practice in aikido - A few days ago, Sensei Strange made a comment in a conversation that I thought was interesting. He called aikido - at least as we are trying to expre...
    1 day ago
  • Cook Ding's Kitchen ... empty your cup.
    Chinese Martial Arts in the Early 20th Century - *There is another great article at Kung Fu Tea. This one has to do with what the Shanghai Police had to deal with in the early 20th century, by examining ...
    2 days ago
  • MyTaiChiLife
    The Tai Chi Yogi - Sorry I haven’t posted in such a long time. I have been working on two writing projects. One is re typing a book I wrote when I had my tai chi studio calle...
    2 days ago
  • barrietaichi.com
    This is Water - Here's a great video that sums up a huge part of what Tai Chi & Qigong can do for us. It IS ALL about awareness and self mastery. Barrie Tai Chi & Qigong
    3 days ago
  • Ikigai | Blogging the Martial Way
    Is It Possible to Cross-Train Hard and Soft Styles? - This is a great question about the relationship between hard and soft styles: “Recently I started training in Old Yang Style T’ai Chi Ch’uan in order to ad...
    3 days ago
  • Chiron
    Down the Rabbit Hole - Had a fifteen minute conversation with Edwin. Which always leaves me 1) wishing I had taken notes and 2) fairly certain that I didn't understand most of i...
    3 days ago
  • William Berry, MS, CAP
    Review: Gift From The Sea - I recently finished Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s “Gift From The Sea.” Although it is only a little more than 120 pages (and small pages at that) it took me mont...
    4 days ago
  • Mindful Martial Arts
    Flowing with Friends - Back from the International Taoist Tai Centre for 4 weeks and then returning to my “home away from home” for another Health Recovery Week. No makeup, no ha...
    6 days ago
  • the way of wujimon
    さくら号 - ３月１６日、都電荒川線「さくら号」が運行を始めました。
    3 weeks ago
  • Taijiquan & Neigong Blog (Tai Chi Chuan & Nei Kung)
    Hypnosis & Martial Arts – Part Two – Self Delusion - One of the most nefarious side effects of incorrect martial arts practice is the potential to fall into unexamined groupthink. This effect can be disastr...
    3 weeks ago
  • Jianghu :: 2.1
    Mothballed - I’m currently on medical leave from work, which has given me some time to think. I haven’t been posting here in some respects because I just haven’t had an...
    1 month ago
  • The Dragon's Orb
    Elbow Techniques - My poor blog. Neglected. I did however shoot a little film of the hiji waza set of our primary grouping of techniques. I start with a weak line balance...
    2 months ago
  • Clear's Tai Chi
    Chi Healing – Fa Kung Intensive Workshops April 26, 27 & 28 ‘13 - Fa Kung Universal Energy Emission and Transmission is one of the older and more secret schools of Chi Kung. In this weekend you will learn Absorbing, Build...
    3 months ago
  • Ting Jing Tai Chi Blog
    The Year of the Snake - And moving with care and attention The second new moon after the winter solstice on February 10th marks the start of the Chinese New Year or Spring Festiva...
    3 months ago
  • The Palace Guard
    Some thoughts after a blogging break... - Sooner or later everyone needs tai chi, they just don't realise it. The spiritual seeker is searching desperately for enlightenment, but the instructions a...
    4 months ago
  • Repulsive Monkey
    Life Modelling 2 - More about the Spirited Bodies group life modelling project, as mentioned previously on Repulsive Monnkey. To SB's Christmas event in Mortlake, London. A...
    5 months ago
  • Dojo Rat
    The New Dojo Rat Site is Up! - Good news! The new, improved, better smelling and better tasting Dojo Rat Blog is up and running- Go to: http://www.dojorat.com/ Thanks for hanging in th...
    5 months ago
  • Masters of the IMA
    Shanghai Training Diary - Just came back from training for a week with Wang Senlin of Shanghai, who I have mentioned in this blog before. Like most Chinese kungfu teachers, Master W...
    1 year ago
  • A Girls Guide to Home Life
    Movie Life Magazine {April 1940} - I love movie magazines. There is something about them that I just love. Maybe it is the photos? The trivia? Interviews? I don't know what, but they sure a...
    1 year ago
  • Our Path in the Valley
    Moved to Cloud Hands Blog - This blog, Our Paths in the Valley, has been discontinued. Michael P. Garofalo continues to maintain his Cloud Hands Blog.
    1 year ago
  • Martial Development
    Unlocking the Warrior Spirit: Duckling Edition - It’s not the size of the duck in the fight, but the size of the fight in the duck that counts. Original text copyright Martial Development. All rights rese...
    2 years ago
  • John's Tai-Blog @ Camp Tai Chi
    Cleanliness… Next to Tai Chi-liness? - I get Google Alerts for things that relate to tai chi. I just saw a posting on STLToday.com that talks about different forms of meditation. It’s the one ...
    2 years ago
  • Dynamic Balancing Boxing
    Goodbye, Leeds -
    8 years ago
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