chen style tai chi bali

Bali

I am primarily based in Bali, dividing my time between Canggu and Ubud. My daily practice happens here: Laojia Yi Lu, standing, and the slow process of continuing to build the Chen-style internal body method into my body.

Informal Meetups

When there is interest, I organise informal, ad-hoc practice gatherings for Chen-style Taijiquan. These are free, unstructured, and happen wherever makes sense: Canggu, Ubud, or elsewhere depending on who is around.

They are not classes. There is no curriculum and no fixed schedule. They are open to anyone, whether you have been training for years or have never encountered the practice before, and are simply an opportunity to train together, exchange, and explore the foundational work: standing, silk reeling, form, and the fascial and structural development that underlies all of it.

If you are in Bali and interested in connecting, get in touch via the contact page.

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For those who are interested in a more structured curriculum, I also offer an online course where I teach the foundational principles as well as the Laojia Yi Lu form.

 

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What Chen Taijiquan Does to Your Fascia

Most movement practices work on the body's outputs, strength, flexibility, endurance. While Chen-style Taijiquan does this as well, it's uniqueness comes from the way it works on the substrate those outputs run through: the fascial network, the connective tissue architecture that determines how force moves through the body, how load is distributed, and how the system holds together under pressure.

Trained correctly over time, it produces specific, measurable changes in that architecture: whole-body tensegrity, elastic continuity, and structural resilience that conventional training does not produce and cannot replicate. This is not a metaphor, it is a description of what the loading patterns of Chen practice actually do to connective tissue, and why the results look and feel qualitatively different from anything else.

Bali has a high concentration of people who already understand this territory, practitioners of yoga, bodywork, somatic movement, and manual therapy who recognise connective tissue adaptation as real and trainable. If that framing resonates, Chen Taijiquan is worth exploring seriously.