50+ years, one of Australia’s most senior teachers.
Starts Monday 5 October, 10:00am–10:45am. An indoor experience at Q Wellness Collective, Kew. 10-week term, small groups, all levels. Limited spots.
Enrol in Tai Chi →Chen and Yang style Tai Chi, taught by Master Han Jin Song, founder of Tai Chi Australia. Slow, continuous movement for balance, joint mobility, leg strength and a quieter mind. No experience needed, and no level of fitness assumed.
Enrol in the Tai Chi term →A practice, not a workout. Tai Chi is a sequence of slow, continuous movements performed with the muscles and joints relaxed, the mind quiet but alert. The legs act as the base, the waist as the axis, and the whole body moves as one. Though the pace is slow, every part of the body stays in motion.
Developed as a martial art and used in China for centuries to maintain health, it works on balance and joint mobility in a way few other practices do — which is why doctors and physiotherapists so often recommend it. It is part of a longer practice of longevity, built one session at a time.
Anyone can do it, at any age and any level of fitness. You should finish a session feeling relaxed and refreshed, not exerted. Find out more about the course →
Founder and Chief Instructor of Tai Chi Australia. Disciple of Grand Master Chen Xiaowang, 19th generation keeper of Chen style Tai Chi. Former Head Coach of the Australian National Wushu/Tai Chi Team.
The largest review of its kind, drawing on 1,744 randomised controlled trials and published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, found high certainty evidence that tai chi eases pain, improves sleep and mental health, and increases bone density in osteopenia and osteoporosis. The benefits were greatest with regular, sustained practice: three sessions a week, over six months or more. A ten-week beginners course is where that practice starts.
Source: Chen et al., British Journal of Sports Medicine, 2026.
Monday, 10:00–10:45am
Unit 1, 3 Wellington Street, Kew VIC 3101
Please note: reaching the studio requires climbing one flight of stairs. There is no lift.
$30 per session, $300 for the full 10-week course. Full payment is required online at the time of enrolment, by credit card or PayID.
Taught by Master Han Jin Song. A structured introduction to the fundamentals: stance, weight transfer, relaxation and the opening movements of the form. No experience assumed. Held indoors, with numbers limited to a small group.
Full payment secures your place for the 10-week term. If you need to withdraw before the term begins, we’re happy to offer a full refund up to 7 days before the start date, or a credit toward a future term after that. Once the term is underway, missed classes cannot be refunded or reimbursed. If we need to cancel a session, you will be refunded for that class.
Tai Chi is approved for private health insurance rebate eligibility following an independent review accepted by the Australian Government. Coverage is decided by individual health funds and is generally only available as part of a health management plan, not for fitness alone. Read Minister for Health and Aged Care Mark Butler’s statement here.
Flat, flexible shoes and clothes you can move freely in. Nothing else is needed.
Beginners courses assume no experience. You will learn the stance and the first movements before anything else.
Movements can be done higher or lower, larger or smaller. Nothing is held longer than is comfortable.
You should leave relaxed rather than exerted. That is how the practice is meant to work.
“Today, it’s principally a tranquil, gentle and pleasurable means of attaining and maintaining health and harmony in mind and body, mobility, suppleness and mental alertness.”
Book your first class online, or reach out with any questions before you begin.