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Find a tai chi class near you!

Posted on May 9, 2024 by Tai Chi Union

With around a thousand members teaching thousands of classes in hundreds of locations throughout the UK, look at our website to see if we have a class near you. With our new location search you can look for a teacher to suit you, whether you have a general interest or are looking for a particular art such as tai chi,…

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Latest magazine now out!

Posted on January 1, 2024 by Tai Chi Union

Our latest magazine filled with fascinating articles about tai chi and other internal arts is now out.  The magazine is only available to our members but you see an extract of it here. Making information like this available is part of our commitment (as a Community Interest Company) to provide free, unbiased, quality information available to the public.

More improvements!

Posted on November 7, 2023 by Tai Chi Union

We are building on the digital proof of membership already available for Instructors.  When the website was introduced earlier this year, each listed Instructor was given their own web page on our site (in a standard format).  There has been great feedback about how useful this is for proving Instructors are registered with the Union even if members do not…

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Another Gerda Geddes Fund Award – Phil East!

Posted on October 30, 2023 by Tai Chi Union

We’re delighted to announce another award from the Gerda Geddes Fund! We’re very pleased the award will go to Philip East Three Deep Breaths School Of Qigong to help fund a half-day workshop for people with mental health issues (depression, anxiety, social phobia) and the people who care for them. A new local charity – Infinity Cymru – is looking…

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Online Members Meeting Saturday 25th November, 14:00 GMT

Posted on October 15, 2023 by Tai Chi Union

Registration is now open for our next members’ meeting and we’re looking forward to an opportunity to engage with as many of you as possible. Holding the meetings online is more popular than the previous in-person meetings, so we are continuing to do this. The feedback we received from attendees last year was good so we will be going with…

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Insurance Update

Posted on October 15, 2023 by Tai Chi Union

Further to our previous post advising that Protectivity had withdrawn the agreed policy, we wish to update our members on the current position. As part of our program of improving the benefits for members, we are looking to work with an insurance provider who can offer the following: A policy that includes Participant to Participant (P2P) cover under Public Liability…

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Important Insurance Update

Posted on October 1, 2023 by Tai Chi Union

In light of the magazine article provided by Protectivity in Issue 69, we feel it is important that members should know that Protectivity have chosen to terminate their arrangement. Members should also be aware that Protectivity have withdrawn the cover for Participant to Participant claims under the Martial Arts Instructor Insurance.  This is by means of an endorsement to the…

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Continued website improvements!

Posted on September 23, 2023 by Tai Chi Union

We are developing the Instructor search so the public can find members’ classes near them more easily. We’ll also be making it possible for people to find online classes or teachers for a specific Internal Art such as Baguazhang, Xing Yi Chuan and Qigong as well as Tai Chi. This is all part of our continued commitment to improve benefits…

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Another Gerda Geddes Fund award

Posted on August 11, 2023 by Tai Chi Union

Following the launch of the Gerdes Geddes Fund, the TCUGB board are pleased to announce that the next recipient of this support will go to Cathy Birkinhead. https://www.facebook.com/TaiChiInTheChilterns After a successful Tai Chi taster event at the Hospice of St Francis in July, she is introducing a regular weekly class to help people with ongoing health challenges including cancer treatment…

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CIMSPA Professional Standard Coach

Posted on August 11, 2023 by Tai Chi Union

For anyone wishing to gain a nationally recognised professional coaching qualification, you might like to check out a new award that has been developed by the BCCMA (the  British Council for Chinese Martial Arts – the National Governing Body for Chinese Martial Arts), which is validated by the CIMSPA (the Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity)….

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