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Circling Hands Chi Gung Workshop with Brian Cooper

Downton School of Tai Chi is proud to host an event by the my teacher, Brian Cooper, on Saturday 7th February 2009. Brian Cooper has over 29 years experience in Chi Gung & Tai Chi and has been teaching in Brighton, since 1989, under the name Inside Tai Chi. He is a senior student of Master B K Frantzis and serves as technical adviser to the students of Master Frantzis in the U.K. and Europe. As well as weekly classes in Brighton he teaches workshops throughout the UK.

Circling hands are a basic set of movements designed to initiate the power of circularity into your nervous system. Learning these movements also greatly helps students to achieve the opening & closing of the joints and cavities of the body. For tai chi, learning opening & closing is the key to “riding the waves” that makes tai chi so pleasurable and gives the most healing effect. For chi gung practitioners, skill in circling hands will supercharge your other chi gungs, especially Dragon & Tiger and Marriage of Heaven and Earth.

Beginners will be introduced to the method of opening & closing the easiest joints to get you started. Advanced students will work on the more difficult joints, or even the cavities of the body. This will then be incorporated into the circling hands and tai chi.

The movements of Tai Chi are composed of three primary circles. These circles are
often combined to create spirals within the Tai Chi movements. Even simple looking
circles may have complex internal processes which can not be seen.

This workshop will explore these primary circles in the form of exercises to enable
students to understand the internal processes. Then small sections of tai chi form, or chi gung forms will be practised in order to integrate the internal processes into the forms.

This workshop is open to all Tai Chi & Chi Gung practitioners of any style, as well as complete beginners.

The cost of the workshop will be £30 for 3 hours (10am to 1pm) on Saturday 7th February 2009. If you are interested to book (highly recommended!) or have any enquires please email us at or call Patrick Foley 01725 514546.