How long have you been attending our classes?
Since February 2025
What’s been your favourite thing to learn?
This is a difficult one? So many things I have started to learn. Among my favourites have been the breathing exercises and stances, Yin and Yang movements, last, but by no means least The Staff!! Good for tying yourself in knots!!
How do you feel after the classes you attend?
It varies each, and every class from excited, energised, confident all the way through to cream crackered, stopping at all stations in between.
Have you noticed any changes to your physicality and your outlook on the world?
Yes, I was fairly fit and strong when I started. Now, I am leaner but not meaner.
With age comes its own challenges, different mountains to climb, slow, but steady, sometimes sliding a little, but one step at a time, treading softly on the Earth
“Strong like Mountain Soft like the Mist.”
What have you gained from the classes?
What I can only describe as more depth of understanding.
On the initial registration form one question is something like’what do you hope to gain from learning Taoist Arts?
My response was” To grow in body, mind and spirit”
I have gained or am gaining to various degree in each of these areas.
- I am committed to life long learning, formal and informal. All stages of our life present us with challenges, which are better faced with the warrior spirit, “keep on keeping on
- To be gentle with yourself, others and the Earth.
- Learning is better done together, to laugh and have fun even through moments of strain / pain / embarrassment or bewilderment 🥴😵💫🫠
- We live in a speed orientated world which is so often chaotic particularly now. Our lives echo that, fast, frantic & furious anxious and stressed!! The old saying ‘more haste less speed ‘has resonance particularly in queuing traffic. Put another way No hurry no worry’
- We try to do our best, learn how to be at peace with who we are and where we are on our living journey. Nothing is perfect and nothing is permanent.
- The classes at Sheffield Taoist Centre have encouraged this growth for me.