Welcome to an embodied community.
Tom Bisio and Valerie Ghent leading a class through Ba Gua Zhang’s Ding Shi Circle Walking practice.
In Person Classes
Training Ba Gua through in person classes allows you to directly interact with other people, accelerating your functional ability to skillfully express the internal arts principles. These interactions take the form of structured partnered drills and exercises, but also receiving gentle corrections through touch and directly feeling the instructor’s body demonstrate the movements and principles. Your learning in class is further supported through supplementary videos that help you train effectively on your own between classes.
Your journey in the these Ba Gua classes will begin with helping you develop a functional personal practice of the Keystone Exercises. This simple yet profound Qi Gong set of 6 exercises will introduce you to all of the key principles of the art through your direct felt experience. The time spent refining this introductory set will lead you directly to an embodied understanding of the internal arts principles. This in turn makes learning more advanced and outwardly complex material much easier in the future.
In person classes are held in Sydney, Australia. Thad teaches an ongoing class on Tuesday mornings in the park at Rushcutter’s Bay that is open for rolling admission, and also teaches 8 week introductory courses through the Sydney Community College that run several times per year.
Friday morning Ba Gua in Rushcutter’s Bay
Fridays 7:00 - 8:00am
$30 per class
Intro package of $100 for your first 4 classes available
No pre-requisite training required
Rolling admission - join at any time
Begin your Tuesdays training this profound system with the rising sun in the beautiful waterfront park of Rushcutter’s Bay. These in person classes are supplemented with training videos to aid the development of your personal practice outside of class.
Beginning Qi Gong at the Sydney Community College
Mondays 11:30am - 1:00pm
Next term starts April 28th
This class provides a step by step approach to building a practice of the Ba Gua Keystone Exercises Qi Gong set over an 8 week class period at the Sydney Community College.