The School and Gardens
Welcome! My name is Christine Chin and I am Choy’s wife and assistant director here at the School. We have 5 acres of beautiful organic gardens which includes a wooded valley with a stream and ponds, our circle vegetable garden, the 60 foot polytunnel where we grow the Beloved Potimarron! and the swimming pool (‘polypool’). Plus a whole lot more …..
History of the School
The Rainbow Tai-Chi School Programmes started with its first Foundation Teacher Training Course in France in 1982. Seventeen years later in 1998, the founder, Peter Chin Kean Choy bought Creek Farm and transformed it into a school, at the same time ‘15 Ways to a Happier You’ was published. The School celebrated its 10th year in 2008 with 50 beautiful participants at the Summer School.
Tai Chi & Nature
The Heart of Tai Chi is connected to Nature so practising outside with the trees, wind, flowers, birds, streams, ponds, sunshine and rain enables us to connect directly with the heart beat of nature and experience a sense of oneness with the earth which we often ground by gardening. For example, long term students each plant their own tree to symbolise their own commitment to growing themselves.
Photo Gallery
The Pottimarron message!
Student Yvonne planting her pear tree.
Getting to know the INNER/OUTER MAGIC OF COMPOSTING - Left to right : Leon, Aisling, Joanne, Yvonne, Pam, Choy, Meileen, Bernadette, Frances and Petra at the Light Being Intensive Weekend Meeting.
At the School’s Polytunnel and Sunflowers growing food for the Summer School Participants.
Choy with a basket of cauliflower, courgettes and salads harvested from School gardens.
Summer School participants relaxing and sharing Zhineng Chi energy with each other and with Nature.
Sensitivity training during The Fusion one month intensive, Heather with the Lavender, School Herbal Gardens