2024 Workshop Calendar

Long Tou Shan Tai Chi School offers a number of special programs each year.  Focused workshops are offered at intervals in autumn each year.  The workshops are independent and it isn’t necessary to attend all of them to achieve improvements in your practice and your health.

Please Note: during the workshops regular lessons will continue to be held.  Masters Mei and Dazhu will both be participating in the regular lessons.  So, even if you are not interested in the workshops, you may still come to Long Tou Shan school any time.

Qigong, Tai Chi and Yoga Workshop: Focus, Peace, Relaxation, Mental Well-being; Blood Pressure, Heart Health and Improved Breathing; and Deepening Your Practice, with Master Mei

  • Course date: 2024 Sep 9 – Sep 14 (6-day course)
  • Course Content: This course will give you all of the tools and experience necessary to combat stress and to cultivate peace, focus and awareness. Also, the techniques learned in this course will help you to clear and open up your meridians, as well as improving your flexibility. During this course you will be using a mixture of Tai Chi and Qigong techniques focused on improving your health. Master Mei will also be demonstrating how Yoga can be linked with Qigong technique.  Another aspect of the course will include a focus on steadying your blood pressure, improving your heart’s health and also helping you to attain healthier, deeper breathing. Highly useful for anyone who appreciates good health, but a must for all of us as we grow older!  Finally, this is a course for anyone wanting to move deeper into their Tai Chi practice, taking you through good basic posture and movement to a greater focus on the internal aspects of the art. You will gain the tools necessary to develop greater awareness of your Qi and how to move it consciously. Master Mei loves teaching energy work with her Tai Chi students and seeing the benefits that they gain from the practice.
  • Students wishing to further deepen their familiarity with the skills learned in this course are free to stay on at the school when the workshop ends. This will help you to really understand the methods and gain insights that will help you deepen and correct your own practice. You will be able to join in the regular classes at the school, with a particular focus on the methods that you will have learned in this course. Prices for staying at the school and attending regular classes can be found here.
  • Certification is available: in order to gain certification for the course, students’ levels of capability with the methods will be assessed by Master Mei. The certificate will be issued from Long Tou Shan Tai Chi School.
  • Participants do not need any prior experience with Tai Chi or Qigong
  • Maximum 15 participants.
  • 3 healthy vegetarian, largely organic meals per day and nutritious, superfood smoothies.
  • Every course includes one healthy vegetarian cooking demonstration / lesson.
  • All-inclusive price per person:
    • 5200 CNY for 6 full days including meals and accommodation in a private comfortable room with double bed.
    • 4500 CNY for 6 full days including meals and accommodation in a shared, comfortable room with two double beds, based on 2 people per room.

Qigong, Meditation and Acupressure Healing Workshop with Master Mei

  • Course date: 2024 Sep 16 – Sep 21 (6-day course)
  • Course content: Master Mei will teach the art of acupressure, a very ancient healing practice which consists of intentional pressure at certain points in the body to mobilize and unblock the Qi (vital energy), activating the natural healing processes of the body.  Acupressure can be effective in dissipating stress, stimulating the immune system, releasing tensions, increasing blood circulation, reducing all kinds of pain, migraines, and numbness, and also calming the mind.
  • Certification is available: in order to gain certification for the course, students’ levels of capability with the methods will be assessed by Master Mei. The certificate will be issued from Long Tou Shan Tai Chi School.
  • Maximum 15 participants.
  • 3 healthy vegetarian, largely organic meals per day and nutritious, superfood smoothies.
  • Every course includes one healthy vegetarian cooking demonstration / lesson.
  • All-inclusive price per person:
    • 5200 CNY for 6 full days including meals and accommodation. Based on a private comfortable room with double bed.
    • 4800 CNY for 6 full days including meals and accommodation. Based on a shared, comfortable room with two double beds, based on 2 people per room.

Tai Chi and Qigong to Wake Up Your Energy System, Open Your Meridians, and Promote Joint Health, with Master Mei

  • Course date: 2024 Sep 23 – Sep 28 (6-day course)
  • Course Content: This course will allow participants to wake up their energy system and meridians, and improve and maintain their joint health and general health thereafter. The instructor, Master Luo Meijuan (Mei), has extensive experience teaching the techniques of energy flow to improve the well-being of her students. Following the course, students will have all the skills and knowledge needed to continue to cultivate a greater amount and flow of Qi in their own energy system. This will lead to more energy and alertness, peace and all round better health.
  • Students wishing to further deepen their familiarity with the skills learned in this course are free to stay on at the school when the workshop ends. This will help you to really understand the methods and gain insights that will help you deepen and correct your own practice. You will be able to join in the regular classes at the school, with a particular focus on the methods that you will have learned in this course. Prices for staying at the school and attending regular classes can be found here.
  • Certification is available: in order to gain certification for the course, students’ levels of capability with the methods will be assessed by Master Mei. The certificate will be issued from Long Tou Shan Tai Chi School.
  • Participants do not need any prior experience with Tai Chi or Qigong
  • Maximum 15 participants.
  • 3 healthy vegetarian, largely organic meals per day and nutritious, superfood smoothies.
  • Every course includes one healthy vegetarian cooking demonstration / lesson.
  • All-inclusive price per person:
    • 5200 CNY for 6 full days including meals and accommodation in a private comfortable room with double bed.
    • 4500 CNY for 6 full days including meals and accommodation in a shared, comfortable room with two double beds, based on 2 people per room.

Qigong, Meditation and Acupressure Healing Workshop with Master Mei

  • Course date: 2024 Oct 7 – Oct 12 (6-day course)
  • Course content: Master Mei will teach the art of acupressure, a very ancient healing practice which consists of intentional pressure at certain points in the body to mobilize and unblock the Qi (vital energy), activating the natural healing processes of the body.  Acupressure can be effective in dissipating stress, stimulating the immune system, releasing tensions, increasing blood circulation, reducing all kinds of pain, migraines, and numbness, and also calming the mind.  For students who attend both acupressure workshops, new techniques will be introduced in the second workshop.
  • Certification is available: in order to gain certification for the course, students’ levels of capability with the methods will be assessed by Master Mei. The certificate will be issued from Long Tou Shan Tai Chi School.
  • Maximum 15 participants.
  • 3 healthy vegetarian, largely organic meals per day and nutritious, superfood smoothies.
  • Every course includes one healthy vegetarian cooking demonstration / lesson.
  • All-inclusive price per person:
    • 5200 CNY for 6 full days including meals and accommodation. Based on a private comfortable room with double bed.
    • 4500 CNY for 6 full days including meals and accommodation. Based on a shared, comfortable room with two double beds, based on 2 people per room.

Teacher Training in Tai Chi and Qigong with Master Mei (Chen and Yang styles)

  • Course date: 2024 Oct 14 – Oct 19 (6-day course)
  • Course content: Master Mei will focus on deepening your understanding of internal energy (qi) in tai chi, with a particular emphasis on techniques to best impart your understanding to your own students.
  • The health and wellness aspects of tai chi will be primary but the martial arts aspects will also be covered.
  • Certificate: If students wish to obtain a teacher certificate, they may test with Master Mei at the end of the course – upon successful completion of the test a teacher certificate will be issued.
  • Students who are not pursuing the goal of a teacher certificate are still welcome to join the course.
  • Maximum 15 participants.
  • Teacher training participants require prior experience with Tai Chi.
  • 3 healthy vegetarian, largely organic meals per day and nutritious, superfood smoothies.
  • Every course includes one healthy vegetarian cooking demonstration / lesson.
  • Early registration discount: 10% reduction if registered by 1 March.
  • All-inclusive price per person:
    • 5700 CNY for 6 full days including meals and accommodation. Based on a private comfortable room with double bed.
    • 5000 CNY for 6 full days including meals and accommodation. Based on a shared, comfortable room with two double beds, based on 2 people per room.

Tai Chi and Qigong for Focus, Health, Peace, Sleep, Flexibility, Balance, Leg Strength and Energy Flow, and Meditation in the Qigong Tradition, with Master Mei

  • Course date: 2024 Oct 21 – Oct 26 (6-day course)
  • Course Content: This course will give participants all the skills and techniques needed for them to improve their sleep, focus, physical health and mental well-being, as well as to help develop leg strength, flexibility and energy flow, which are all vital to good health. Relaxed balance and good posture are core to good health, especially as we grow older.  Another aspect of the course will involve using sitting and other unique Qigong techniques for mindfulness, peace, opening the meridians, bone health and general health. This part of the course will show you the power and depth of Qigong for both your mental and physical health. If you wish to deepen your meditative practice, improve your memory, learn the art of effortless power and improve your well-being, then this course is perfect for you.
  • Students wishing to further deepen their familiarity with the skills learned in this course are free to stay on at the school when the workshop ends. This will help you to really understand the methods and gain insights that will help you deepen and correct your own practice. You will be able to join in the regular classes at the school, with a particular focus on the methods that you will have learned in this course. Prices for staying at the school and attending regular classes can be found here.
  • Certification is available: in order to gain certification for the course, students’ levels of capability with the methods will be assessed by Master Mei. The certificate will be issued from Long Tou Shan Tai Chi School.
  • Participants do not need any prior experience with Tai Chi or Qigong
  • Maximum 15 participants.
  • 3 healthy vegetarian, largely organic meals per day and nutritious, superfood smoothies.
  • Every course includes one healthy vegetarian cooking demonstration / lesson.
  • All-inclusive price per person:
    • 5200 CNY for 6 full days including meals and accommodation in a private comfortable room with double bed.
    • 4500 CNY for 6 full days including meals and accommodation in a shared, comfortable room with two double beds, based on 2 people per room.