Tai Chi Beginners classes in Abbotsford in Mission, Langley, Chilliwack.
We have been serving the Fraser Valley Region since 2006, providing quality instruction in traditional Yang style Tai Chi, Qi Gong, longevity techniques and related internal arts practices.
Fraser Valley Tai Chi Arts in Abbotsford (Also know as the Fraser Valley Taijiquan Association) began as the vision of the Chief instructor, Travis Crombie, that health and well-being can be ours by opening up to and cultivating the natural life energies within us and around us. This vision emerged out of his life-changing experiences in Asia with both the internal marital arts and the health and self-cultivation practices of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).
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Travis Crombie is a 7th generation teacher of Yang Style Tai Chi.
He has over 40 years of martial arts experience in both the external and internal martial arts traditions of Japan and China. He began studying traditional karate and weapons (known as kobudo) at the age of 12. This passion for the martial arts - which to this day he blames on Bruce Lee - eventually led him to Asia to study internal martial arts in Taiwan (Republic of China).
why choose us
There he had the good fortune of learning from many excellent teachers, including senior students of Xiong Yang He and Wang Yen Nien. His principle teacher in Taiwan was Master Zheng Xian Qi, a student of Cheng Man Ch'ing and a disciple student of renowned Tai Chi and White Crane master, Huang Xin Xian. Travis is certified by the National Taijiquan Association of Taiwan to teach in the Yang style lineage.
Travis is also a certified Chinese Tui Na massage therapist with a detailed knowledge of the human body and the health modalities of traditional Chinese medicine. A life-long student of Eastern and Western philosophical and spiritual traditions, Travis has tasted many approaches to life - from farmer, teacher, to professional landscaper, intellectual and business owner - at this point of the journey he believes what most of us in the western world need is to learn to access our deeper potential (or higher aspirations) through increased body awareness - including the awareness of how emotions and energy, held in the body, lead to either balance or imbalance.
Travis, later, had the distinct honor of becoming a student of Master Tam Man Yin, one of the world's great masters of the internal martial arts. Contact with Master Tam revolutionized Travis's approach to Tai Chi and life itself, the experience of which continues to inspire and propel him to help others learn these traditional art forms.
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an Introduction
We Offer Tai Chi Beginners Classes in Abbotsford, Langley, Mission, Chilliwack
Our Chief Instructor
A Brief Bio
We have long-standing partnerships with the communities of Langley, Mission and Abbotsford, so that you can learn in a safe, friendly environment.
We focus on helping people obtain optimal health through the methods of Tai Chi and related practices.
We use experiential, traditional and practical approaches to learning based on the perspective that the teacher only opens the door, the student must walk through on their own.
We teach authentic methods for attaining internal martial arts skill.
We don't take ourselves too seriously.
(No, seriously!)