Tai Chi at the Golden Lion Academy in Berwick, Rowville and Murrumbeena - Melbourne Australia - will keep you healthy for life. Our classes will help you reduce stress, improve your memory, prevent illness and keep fit.

You’ll strengthen your immune system, improve your strength, coordination and balance with our programme, which consists of yang style bare hands forms, breathing and meditation techniques, various strength, flexibility, balance and coordination exercises, weaponry such as the tai chi sword and fan, push hands, self defence applications and pressure points for both healing and self defence.

You may even want to compete in regular tai chi tournaments which are held internationally and locally, or become certified to teach and be graded.

All these skills can be learnt by males and females, from 13 year old teenagers to 80 year old adults. Our gentle low impact programme allows you to continue exercising as you age. This means you’ll continue to reap the mental and physical health benefits that our programme gives you.

The Golden Lion Academy has a proven track record - they have taught martial and healing arts in Melbourne to Australians for 40 years

Imagine yourself with good levels of energy and vitality, a positive frame of mind, and living a long, healthy, happy life.

This IS possible. We’ve been teaching martial arts and healing to Australians in Melbourne for 40 years and we have seen the results.

Since 1971, we’ve developed a unique programme for you to ensure that safety, experience and quality are assured. Our highly qualified professional masters and instructors are all Australian government accredited to teach you. Our senior instructors are also internationally accredited coaches and judges certified in China. We continually monitor your progress so that you get the results you want.

We remain committed to giving you the best possible mind-body fitness programme that is well-rounded and balanced. You’ll be able to fine-tune all the elements of your body - physical, emotional, intellectual, energetic, and spiritual - into a balanced, healthy unit.

For class times and fees, please call us on our central telephone number 9796-1066 or email us through our contact-us form.

Join us today and have a healthier lifestyle

At the Golden Lion Academy we believe that integrated mind and body fitness is a way to good health, and that Tai Chi Chuan is a system of exercise and philosophy ideally designed to achieve this integration and fitness.

A natural way to fitness and health, improving health, healing and wellbeing is the aim of this ancient art which is essentially gentle mind-body exercise performed in a tranquil, graceful way to keep both your mind and body fit. The tai chi movements are purposefully performed with slow, continuous and controlled techniques so as to protect your joints while at the same time promoting relaxation, concentration, balance and coordination.

A recent major American research project has shown that tai chi not only improves many aspects of your physical health, but it may also improve your psychological well-being by reducing stress, anxiety, depression and mood disturbance while increasing your self esteem.

In the area of fitness, you'll see an improvement in flexibility, strength, bone density, and in the condition of your heart and circulatory system.

You'll increase your resistance to illness and generate a greater feeling of well-being through regular practice. You'll promote normal circulation of blood, fluids and Chi life force energy throughout your body. According to Traditional Chinese Medicine's pressure points for healing, when circulation of these vital substances becomes blocked or impaired, disease can result.

The spirit of tai chi

In the history of this Chinese martial art, early practitioners have designed it to achieve longevity and specific benefits to the mind and body in a number of ways...

• First, it is a powerful system of self defence - a very straightforward method of preserving oneself physically

• Second, it operates within the principles of Chinese Traditional Medicine to enhance health and healing through the coordination of movement and breathing

• Thirdly, the practice of this art is, in itself, a form of meditation, restoring your inner balance and harmony, and soothing your nervous system.

On this website we will give you information so you can learn tai chi online, and in particular, on our approach to teaching this wonderful art. You will find descriptions of the routines and forms that we teach, including weaponry such as tai chi sword, spear, staff, broadsword and fan, as well as the clothes and clothing and shoes that we recommend for practice.

You can read about the history of our school, the Golden Lion Academy, and the stories about the history of tai chi chuan itself.

And you can help others, and be helped, too. We have created a special section for you called Your Story - Use it, share your knowledge and help others improve their lives.

Please enjoy exploring our website. You'll see the latest on research, how it helps arthritis and how to further build internal health through dao yin chi kung.

For easy reference, you'll see that the Site Map gives you a list of all the articles.

If you feel you would like to learn or purchase some of our books and DVDs, or participate in our classes and lessons, do contact us.

Let Golden Lion Tai Chi keep you healthy for life

We invite you to start your programme at our training centre in Berwick, Rowville or Murrumbeena under our very experienced instructors. We will keep you healthy for life as you develop mind and body harmony. The soothing, tranquil flow of the class is a perfect reintroduction to good physical and emotional health.

Numbers are limited so please call 9796 1066 today to reserve your place.

Should you find this website useful, please recommend it to a friend.

Si Gung Charles Tsui-Po
Tai Chi Chuan Chief Instructor

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© Copyright Charles Tsui-Po 1971-2012. All Rights Reserved.
Golden Lion Tai Chi Dao Yin Chi Kung - Phone: 9796 1066
BERWICK: 29 Intrepid Street, Berwick 3806.
ROWVILLE: 2 Laser Drive, Rowville 3178.
MURRUMBEENA: 98 Murrumbeena Road, Murrumbeena 3163.
Melbourne, Australia.