About

Tamsin is a qualified Acupuncture and Tui Na therapist; and teaches ‘moving meditation’.

Tamsin qualified in Acupuncture with Xian Tian college in January 2023, and in Tui Na in early 2022. She ran a successful clinic in Bridport, Dorset, before moving to Indonesia to undertake full-time Chinese martial arts training, including Taiji. She worked as an acupuncturist in a drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre, and supported group therapy workshops there.

Tamsin first discovered Qi Gong whilst living in Japan in 2017, which she then started practicing regularly in London. She began training in Nei Gong in 2019, and in Taiji and other martial arts in 2023. Whilst living in Indonesia in 2024 she began teaching preparatory ‘body opening’ exercises, which pave the way for the deeper arts. She met the Taiji Tao tradition in 2024.

She now teaches ‘moving meditation’ classes online and in Bridport. Tamsin is not an official qi gong or taiji teacher yet. Whilst having trained for quite a long time, she has not gone through an official teacher training process. However, she shares exercises that she has permission to ‘share from where she is at’. Many of the practices come from the Taiji Tao tradition, also known as ‘Temple Style Taiji’, which comes from Taiwan and combines qi gong and taiji. It is a relatively gentle and harmonising practice.

Tamsin’s has worked on projects to support migrant and refugee communities since 2012 (website here), including co-founding a legal advocacy organisation in Dunkirk Refugee Camp. This work lead her to existential questioning about the nature of ‘change’: how to contribute to and support meaningful change in the world, in individuals, in ourselves. This, along with being helped by acupuncture to manage an old injury, paved the way for her deep interest in the Taoist arts. She grew up around Tibetan Buddhism, living part time in Buddhist centres across the UK, exposing her from a young age to Eastern philosophy and practice; and has family ties to Taiwan, where she has spent a lot of time.

Tamsin’s main teachers have been Geshe-la Kelsang Gyatso, Sophie Johnson, Damo Mitchell, Roni Edlund, Tyler Phan, Rob Aspell, Sarah Tulivu (Taiji Tao) and Benjamin Veal, to whom she holds enormous gratitude.

Photo credit Ella Squirrell