Tai Chi Nashville
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We teach Yang style short form of tai chi chuan. The movements are widely acknowledged to help calm emotions, focus the mind, and strengthen the immune system. Practiced at a slow and even speed, tai chi promotes relaxation, straight posture, and balance. Tai chi helps us to stay younger as we grow older, thus making an outstanding contribution to our overall health and well-being.
We offer different courses in the teaching of tai chi. We start by teaching the Yang style short form in a series of three courses called the Beginning form. The first course is B1, the second B2, and the third B3. Other courses include Sensing Hands, Fundamentals, Intermediate, and the Eight Ways of Tai Chi Chuan™.
PRACTICE TAI CHI
SPRING 2026 Schedule at a Glance
IN PERSON CLASSES
SPRING Courses 2026
Beginning 1 & 2
Saturday 9.00-9.50 am
Start Date: March 28, 2026
End Date: June 13, 2026
No Class on Apr 25, 2026
11 Classes
Cost: $185 | Paid in Full
$25 | Paid per Class
*This class will cover the B1 course and the half of the B2 course
Beginning 2 & 3
Saturday 8.00-8.50 am
Start Date: March 28, 2026
End Date: June 13, 2026
No Class on Apr 25, 2026
11 Classes
Cost: $185 | Paid in Full
$25 | Paid per Class
*This class will cover the B2 course and the half of the B3 course
IN PERSON CLASSES
SPRING Courses 2026
8 Ways & Form
Saturday 10.00-10.50 am
Start Date: March 28, 2026
End Date: June 13, 2026
No Class on Apr 25, 2026
11 Classes
Cost: $185 | Paid in Full
$25 | Paid per Class
*This class will cover Eight Ways of Tai Chi Chaun and Form Review
Form + Fun
Tuesday 5.30-6.20 pm
Start Date: March 31, 2026
End Date: June 9, 2026
11 Classes
Cost: $185 | Paid in Full
$25 | Paid per Class
*This class will Form Review with Fundamentals Focus
Spring ONLINE Courses 2026
ZOOM Beginning 1
Sunday 8.00 - 9.00 am Central
Start Date: April 12, 2026
End Date: June 21, 2026
11 Classes
Cost: $200
Cost for Students Repeating
Cost: $120
Note: Classes offered by Online Tai Chi School, our sister school
ZOOM Free Practice
Monday 5.00 - 6.00 pm Central
Start Date: April 13, 2026
End Date: June 22, 2026
11 Classes
Cost: $200
Cost for Students Repeating
Cost: $120
Note: Classes offered by Online Tai Chi School, our sister school
ZOOM Beginning 3
Sunday 9.15 - 9.45 am Central
Start Date: April 12, 2026
End Date: June 14, 2026
11 Practice Sessions
Cost: FREE
Drop in Weekly or when you can
Note: Classes offered by Online Tai Chi School, our sister school
TAI CHI PAYMENT
PAYMENT FOR CLASS
In Class: Cash, Check
Anytime: Venmo.
CLASS LOCATION
Friends Meeting Nashville - Quaker House
530 26th Ave N,
Nashville, TN 37209
General Inquiries
Our School
School of Tai Chi Chuan and T’ai Chi Foundation
At the request of Professor Cheng Man-Ch’ing, the School of T’ai Chi Chuan was founded in 1976 by one of his senior students, Patrick Watson.
Cheng Man-Ch’ingGrand Master Cheng Man-Ch’ing (1901-1975) is known as master of the “Five Excellences”: painting, poetry, calligraphy, medicine and tai chi chuan. In the 1960s, he brought tai chi chuan to the West. The Professor’s form has become the most popular tai chi form in the West.
Patrick WatsonPatrick Watson (1935-1992) began studying with Cheng Man-Ch’ing in 1966. In 1976, Patrick founded The School of Tai Chi Chuan (STCC) specifically to train teachers to teach the Professor’s tai chi chuan form; in 1979 Patrick founded the T’ai Chi Foundation, Inc. which now manages all programs including teaching, training, research and development.
Mission of Tai Chi Foundation
The Tai Chi Foundation (TCF) is a not-for-profit educational organization that develops and promotes programs that enable people to learn to practice, and ultimately teach, Tai Chi Chuan and its internal principles.
Today, we have over 250 instructors teaching Tai Chi classes in 30-plus cities around the world. Each teacher follows the curriculum and team teaching method developed by Patrick Watson. The school’s instructors also gather together regularly (at Winter and Summer Trainings) to continue learning from our most senior teachers.
This helps maintain high standards of teaching and consistency in how the art is taught. Students can study with an TCF teacher and receive the same careful attention to the principles and details of the art of Cheng Man-Ch’ing’s form.
“To improve health, well-being, and awareness through the study, practice, and teaching of Tai Chi and Qigong, by an increasing number of people worldwide.”
Wearing cotton sole shoes for tai chi has an advantage.
Provide a good balance between grip and smoothness on the practice surface.
Provide stability while performing the intricate footwork and weight shifts characteristic of tai chi.
Facilitate the ability to pivot and rotate smoothly, promoting fluidity and ease of movement.
Allows for adequate airflow, preventing excessive sweating and discomfort during practice.
Most importantly, shoes are lightweight and flexible, enabling better sensory perception and a closer connection with the ground.
Size Information:
These shoes are sold in one sizing scale: Euro Sizes
Please use the chart to the left to help with ordering
Tai Chi Shoes
Do NOT order Rubber Soled Shoes
Ensure you are ordering Cotton Sole Shoes
Tai Chi Articles
Deep Roots, Living Shoots
Rooting can be misunderstood as only sinking low. While practicing and holding lower postures is a useful training method at certain stages of life, especially for younger practitioners with bodies that repair easily, how low you can go is not the definition of rooting. Rooting is a living relationship with the ground that can remain available throughout all the stages of life. Cheng Man-ch’ing emphasized that tai chi must remain practice-able into old age or it has missed its purpose. However, “how” you practice may be different at different ages.
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Spring - Up and Out
The qi in spring makes things grow; the ancients associated this with wood, as in spring, we see new life surging out of the stillness of winter. It is a time of birth and regeneration. Seeds thrust their way through the earth full of strength, first growing a root down, then shooting up to the light above. It has the power to penetrate through the soil and can grow around obstacles to find its way. There is also a new surge of life in the animal world – it is always a hopeful sight to see the new lambs jumping about in the green fields!
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Why Tai Chi Can Be the Ideal Path to Fitness for Beginners
At any given time of year, millions of Americans may find themselves looking for the right beginner workout with varying levels of enthusiasm. If you’re one of them, you may want to take the path less trodden (for Westerners, anyway) and choose a form of exercise that truly works for you and your lifestyle.
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