Private Class
Tai Chi & Qi Gong Classes in Bali
Private Class 1-to-1 with British instructor Dave West in the peaceful rice fields of Tanah Lot South Bali Beginner to Advanced Level
2 Hours Private Class
This is a very relaxing 2 Hours Private Consultation with instructor Dave West at Tai Chi Bali Healing Arts Centre near Tanah Lot South Bali. You can discus your health concerns and receive a personalized training program and suggestions to help you grow and improve over time. Includes sitting, standing and moving meditations, and restoring postures and purifying movements from Tai Chi, Qi Gong and Tao Yoga.

2 Hours Private Classes take place from Monday to Friday 9am-11am. Private Classes can be modified for different levels of health & fitness, are easy to learn and benefit everyone. Accommodation is not included in the listed price but can be arranged on request. Send us an email with the dates you want your Private Class. Contact us

2 Hours Private Class
1 Private Class 2 hrs/class
USD 90 See Terms & Conditions/Payment Options
2 Hours Private Class is suitable for people who want to increase their general fitness, are new to Tai Chi and Qi Gong and simply want to try it out for the first time. This class is very beneficial for people who have not done any exercise for a while and need a gentle stretch to help get back in shape and get the energy flowing. Includes restoring and purifying movements from a selection of Tai Chi and Qi Gong exercises which can be modified for different levels of fitness.
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10 Hours Private Course
5 Private Classes 2 hrs/class (Short Course)
USD 400 See Terms & Conditions/Payment Options
10 Hour Private Short Course suitable for people who are more motivated to learn the fundamentals of Tai Chi and Qi Gong and continue safe and effective practice at home with confidence. You can also discuss your health concerns and receive a personalized training program and suggestions to help you grow and improve over time. Includes sitting, standing and moving meditations to improve health, increase energy, and speed up recovery from illness.
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Goals of Practice
- To teach beginners to open their heart and minds to the beauty and healing power of nature – Sickness is the disruption in the flow of energy between humans and nature. As you strengthen your connection with the natural world, your sense of beauty, wonder, awe and curiosity is restored and your brain and nervous system are calmed. Stress levels are lowered and the immune system is boosted. The medicine of nature is the antidote to our modern stressful lifestyles.
- To teach beginners to feel their qi – Beginners usually do not have even the slightest concept of qi. Our courses gradually give you an understanding of qi through feeling and experience. This kind of knowledge is necessary for any kind of advancement in Qi Gong and Tai Chi Chuan. For this reason, beginners are usually taught some of the many simple Wai Dan forms.
- To teach beginners to regulate the body, breathing, and mind – Once you have grasped the idea of qi, you then start to learn to regulate your body. This includes how to relax the body from the skin to as deep as the internal organs and bone marrow. Through this relaxation you are able to feel and sense your center, balance, and root. You must also learn to regulate your breathing—normal abdominal breathing for relaxation and reverse abdominal breathing for qi expansion and condensation. Most important of all, you must learn to regulate your mind until it can be calm and concentrated without disturbance. All of these criteria are the critical keys to the correct practice of Qi Gong and Tai Chi Chuan. If you start learning the sequence without having already done this basic training, you will be preoccupied with the complicated movements and will only be able to perform them in a superficial way.
- To teach beginners to use their mind to lead the qi efficiently – Once you have regulated your body, breathing, and mind, you will then be able to use your concentrated mind to lead the qi to circulate smoothly and effectively.
- To teach practitioners to circulate qi in the twelve primary qi channels and fill up the two main qi vessels – If you are able to use your mind to lead the qi efficiently, you have completed the basic training. This is then the time for forms or sequence training. In addition, you should continue your Qi Gong and Tai Chi Chuan training and learn to build up your concentration to a higher level and, consequently, build your qi to a higher level. In addition, you should also learn to increase the qi in the two main vessels—the yin conception vessel and the yang governing vessel. Still meditation is normally used for this.
- To teach practitioners to expand their qi to the surface of the skin and to condense the qi to the bone marrow – When the body’s qi has been built to a higher level, you then start learning to lead the qi to the skin to increase the skin’s sensitivity and into the bones to nourish the marrow.
- To teach practitioners to use the qi to energize the muscles for maximum jin manifestation – When you are able to lead the qi to the skin and condense it to the marrow efficiently, you can then use this qi to energize the muscles to a high level. This is the secret to internal jin. Internal jin is the foundation and root of external jin.
- To lead advanced practitioners into the domain of spiritual cultivation – The ultimate goal of Qi Gong and Tai Chi Chuan practice is to lead you into the domain of emptiness, where your whole being is in the no-extremity (wuji) state. When you have reached this goal, the qi in your body and the qi in nature will unite and become one, and all human desires will gradually disappear.

Instructor – Dave West
Experienced instructor and long time resident in Bali Dave West has been teaching Yang Style Tai Chi Chuan and Health Qi Gong for over 15 years, and Sivananda Yoga for over 25 years. Since 2010 Dave has been teaching at Tai Chi Bali Taoist Healing Arts Centre, specializing in sitting, standing and moving meditation, focusing the mind and breath to lead the Qi, relaxing and balancing the body and spirit. His teaching methods cut straight to the science with simplicity, clarity and practical skills, while maintaining fundamental principles and effectiveness.