Tai Chi Experience with Steve Whiddett – Saturday October 25th 2025

Tai Chi Experience Workshop
£59 per person (includes welcome drink, lunch, and sweet treat)

Date: Saturday, October 25th 2025
Location: Ash Farm

Join us for a relaxing and enriching day at Ash Farm as we introduce you to the timeless art of Tai Chi. Under the guidance of experienced local instructor Steve Whiddett, you’ll explore a series of Tai Chi exercises designed to improve both your physical and mental wellbeing.

Tai Chi, with its roots in traditional Chinese medicine, is a gentle yet effective form of exercise that promotes balance, strength, and mindfulness. During this workshop, you’ll learn essential techniques that combine hand, leg, and breath work, as well as the harmonious principles of Qigong, which together focus your mind and enhance your body’s energy flow.

The day will also include a delicious, homemade lunch served in our Ash Farm Cafe, accompanied by a welcome drink and a healthy sweet treat to round off the experience.

Whether you’re a beginner or have some prior experience, this workshop is designed to help you reconnect with your inner balance and leave feeling refreshed and centred.

Here’s a look at your Day:

10am – 11am Session one:  Introduction and warm up exercises

Introduction to details of the day ….

• Describe the day
• What is Tai Chi Chuan
• Posture, breath work, relaxing and stretching

11.00 am – Break – Tea /Americano station

11.30 – 12.30 Session two: (60 minutes) – Tai Chi principles and practice. Basic exercises and hand work

• Dao yin – upper body exercises and loosening the waist 
• Principles of Tai chi ‘play’, posture/movement ……
• Preparation, open and close handwork
• Hold the ball left and right – moving from the waist
• ‘Part the wild horse’s mane’ both sides and close

12.30 pm – Homemade Lunch in the cafe

1.15pm Session three: (60 minutes) Tai Chi exercises, legwork and working in pairs

• Dao Yin – upper body and forward stretching 
• Turning left and right and shifting weight to each side
• Stepping
• Two-person work – Sticking hands practice

2.15pm – Break – americano/tea and sweet treat 

2.45pm Session four: (45 minutes) Tai Chi movement, warm down and close of the day

• Putting steps and moves together
  • Opening
  • Part the wild horse’s mane, left and right
• Warm down – stretches, massage
• Close with questions

Finish at 3.30pm

About Steve Whiddett…

Steve is local to us at Ash Farm, and is a highly experienced tutor who has studied Tai Chi for more than 30 years in the UK, China and the USA. Steve trained and qualified as a senior coach with the Wu Kung Federation (a member of the British Council for Chinese Martial Arts) and has been teaching Tai Chi Chuan for over 25 years! You will be well looked after under Steve’s calm guidance and expertise, and with our spacious studio at your disposal, you are sure to be immersed in these eye-opening practices and philosophies to enhance your state of mind and physicality.