Qigong With Angela

23/03/2026

Movement is my medicine of choice! ❤️

23/03/2026

🤦🏻‍♀️ Would you believe it, I got so carried away with Spring paper cutting and Chinese tea and candy tasting, that I forgot to take photos of our Tai Chi practice!

💐 Huge thanks to everyone who joined me last Saturday to celebrate the inaugural UNESCO designated International Taijiquan Day!

The Elephant Rooms studio was the perfect venue to share with you just a few aspects of Chinese culture. Take a look at these photos from our community event where we enjoyed...
🍬 Chinese tea tasting, and traditional Chinese candy I remember well from my childhood trips to London Chinatown!
✂️ Mindful creation of symbols of spring and happiness through paper cutting
☯️ Tai Chi, alas no photographic evidence!

21/03/2026

🗓 Today, Saturday 21 March marks the inaugural UNESCO designated International Taijiquan Day!

☯️ Taijiquan - commonly known as Tai Chi - was officially recognised by UNESCO in 2021 as an intangible cultural heritage of humanity. We celebrate the health benefits as well as the cultural heritage, and the Day coincides with spring equinox to signify balance through yin-yang.

🙏 Many thanks to my students at Horsley Woodhouse class for providing testimonials of how Tai Chi has brought benefits to their physical and mental wellbeing, and why they love coming back to Tai Chi class every week!

Plus a few video snippets of our Tai Chi practice together, enjoying Yang style 8-step form in a circle formation, finding stillness in motion.

Wishing you all a Happy International Taijiquan Day! 🥳

12/03/2026

🤩 I'm very excited for this event, the wonderful community at Elephant Rooms is the best place to share this! 🥰

☯️ A lovely offering from at Elephant Rooms.

To mark International Taijiquan Day, Angela will be sharing a free community session with us.

This relaxed gathering offers a gentle introduction to a few beautiful aspects of Chinese culture:
• a Tai Chi taster
• the traditional art of Chinese paper cutting
• a tasting of Chinese tea

We feel very lucky that Angela is offering this as a free session for the community.

Spaces are limited, so please get in touch with Angela to book your place.

📅 Friday 21st March
🕐 1–2:30pm
📍 Elephant Rooms, Draycott

📩 angela@qigongwithangela.co.uk
📞 07762 380277

If there is enough interest, Angela may also run a second session at 3pm.

How lucky we are to have such generosity within our community! 🥰

InternationalTaiChiDay

11/03/2026

🤔 Did you know....

21 March marks the first UNESCO designated International Taijiquan Day?

Taijiquan - commonly known as Tai Chi - was officially recognised by UNESCO in 2021 as an intangible cultural heritage of humanity. In 2026, for the first time, we celebrate the formal UNESCO designation of 21 March as International Taijiquan Day.

To celebrate this occasion, I invite
you to join me for a free-of-charge community event at the Elephant Rooms in Draycott, where I shall be sharing several aspects of Chinese culture.

☯️ Follow me in a guided taster session of Tai Chi
✂️ Experience for yourself paper cutting to welcome the spring equinox
🫖 Taste some Chinese green tea and candy!

Whilst this event is free-of-charge, please book your place with me, as
spaces are very limited. 10 days to go!

📩 angela@qigongwithangela.co.uk
📞 07762 380277

Sessions run at 1 pm and 3 pm, duration 90 minutes
Elephant Rooms

10/03/2026

🎉 Celebrating last weekend's workshops...thank you to all my returning Qigong and Tai Chi students, and to the several new faces at the Elephant Rooms 🙏

🧬 I love that everyone embraced the Da Wu Health Qigong, and felt fully stretched, and nicely warmed, by the Qi flowing through our meridians!

👏 And I applaud everyone for learning the Beijing 10-step Tai Chi from scratch, to flowing through the whole form with minimal commentary from me, what a way to find stillness in motion!

Hats off to everyone for trying something new, and practising the internal energy arts of Tai Chi and Qigong!

👀 Watch this space for a special event coming very soon...

07/03/2026

🌱🌳 Ooooh count me in, what could be better than an afternoon out in nature, nurturing our green spaces, planting and growing for the future! 💚

04/03/2026

🌟 Saturday plans? 🌟

This Saturday afternoon, join me for "Da Wu" Great Dance Health Qigong!

This Qigong gives us the most effective hip stretches and gentle spine mobilisation, we'll feel the energy being stimulated along our meridians!

Saturday 07 March 13:30 - 16:30
Elephant Rooms, Draycott DE72 3PP

🫵 Will you join us? Looking forward to seeing you, book your place with me now 07762 380277 or angela@qigongwithangela.co.uk
Elephant Rooms

03/03/2026

🌟 Saturday plans? 🌟

This Saturday morning, join me for Beginners Tai Chi, it’s not too late to join us!

We spend the morning with Beijing 10-step Yang style Tai Chi - perfect as a gentle introduction to Tai Chi - learning an easy-to-follow routine in either standing or chair-seated position, as you prefer. Experience for yourself why Tai Chi is commonly referred to as "meditation in motion"!

Saturday 07 March 09:30 - 12:30
Elephant Rooms, Draycott DE72 3PP

🫵 Will you join us? Looking forward to seeing you, book your place with me now 07762 380277 or angela@qigongwithangela.co.uk
Elephant Rooms

01/03/2026

🎆Throwback to last Sunday with Deyin Taijiquan Institute, thank you for a fabulous day, Birmingham Chinatown, until next time! 🎇

26/02/2026

Ahhh, these photos are transporting me back to Birmingham Chinatown last Sunday!

Deyin Tai Chi Institute features in photos 6, 7, 8 and 17, don't forget to scroll through to see them all! 👀

Explore Birmingham’s colourful 2026 Chinese New Year celebrations with lion dances, live performances and family fun.

26/02/2026

I love that the Deyin Tai Chi Institute Tai Chi Kungfu Fan performance team made it into the pictures in this article! 💖

Take a look at our pictures of tens of thousands of people coming together to celebrate Lunar New Year in Southside