Tai Chi & Qigong For Resistance & Anti-Oppression – Part 2
A workshop led by:
Jalal Afhim
08/11/2023
19:00 – 21:00
HJL Dream Space
Resource for London
352 Holloway Road
London
N7 6PA
Description
This workshop is led by Jalal Afhim, and introduces Tai Chi as an internal martial art that supports people to better live inside their bodies, to better regulate responses to external stimuli, and to harness the potential of relaxation and softening of the body. Tai Chi builds practitioners’ connectedness with their own bodies, and nourishes the connection between mind, body and spirit. For people struggling against oppression, it provides emotional grounding, taking practitioners out of the headspace where the emotional tension and stress of oppression dominate our consciousness. The martial essence of Tai Chi is in yielding with softness and relaxation, but within the softness lies a strength which can uproot a larger aggressor.
In this workshop, participants will learn Tai Chi theory and movement/breath practices that can support health and wellbeing in the face of oppression, as well as inform responses to power and violence.
If you require additional access measures to enable your participation, including BSL interpretation please email info@healingjusticeldn.org. Inline with our commitment to disability justice, we will try to accommodate as much as possible.
Biography
Jalal Afhim has been practising Tai Chi and Qigong since he began learning in China in 2005. He is also a trainer and career coach, and brings a pedagogy of self-actualisation into his practice as @Kahina_Resists. He brings lived experience of navigating institutional slow violence into this work, forming connections with the experiences of participants.
