Ms.Sue Weston

Relaxing The Mind

Abstract Title: T’ai-Chi Ch’uan: Medicine, Meditation and Martial Art

Biography: Sue has been practicing and teaching mindfulness, T’ai-Chi and Qigong for many years and has PG Diploma in Mindfulness Studies from Aberdeen University and Samyé College. Formerly a dancer, choreographer and movement teacher she has worked nationally and internationally in film, TV and theatre. Sue was awarded an honorary doctorate in 2006 for her work over several years in Sri Lanka supporting humanitarian causes. In 1999/2000 she spent a year in retreat on Holy Isle to deepen her meditation practice. Her meditation teachers include Akong Rinpoche, Lama Rinchen and Lama Samten. Sue started her T’ai-Chi training 1986 with Dr John Kells and subsequently trained in Qigong with Dr Binkum Hu and more recently with Lee Holden and qualified as a Holden Qigong Teacher in 2020. Sue is the initiator of Relaxing The Mind activities that offers T’ai-Chi, Qigong and mindfulness courses, classes, workshops and retreats. Most events moved onto Zoom during the pandemic, now a participant’s location is no longer an obstacle to attending any of the skills offered. Torfaen Qigong, T’ai-Chi and the Qigong & Meditation Retreat Week on Holy Isle all remain off Zoom. This provision ranges between delivering mindfulness courses at her home, Mill House Farm, in schools, (.b mindfulness in schools), hospitals, prisons, the workplace and for groups in Pontypool and Monmouth. Each year Sue facilitates the annual Qigong & Meditation Retreat on Holy Isle, Scotland. Sue continues to attend retreats and teachings that help to deepen her own practice as well as widen her understanding of the complexities of being human.

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