Testimonials
“I came to Angela feeling stressed, anxious and depressed.
My daily Qi Gong practice is something I truly cherish. This enables me to be an active part of my recovery and allows me to more deeply observe and understand my thoughts and emotions. For anyone who has not tried Qi Gong before, I encourage you to do so and Angela’s videos are very well set out and simple to follow.
The effects of the acupuncture treatment were very quick and allowed me to face my challenges with more clarity.
The real beauty of Angela’s treatment was more than these alone… Each week or fortnight, Angela would ask how I’ve been and provide me with guidance and wisdom based on her deep knowledge and experience. While the challenges of my life have not changed, I am now equipped with a stronger toolkit to tackle these with patience, understanding and peace.
“Angela had a huge depth of knowledge and is an excellent and friendly communicator.”
Angela is a natural teacher: knowledgeable, engaging, patient and encouraging. Her wealth of knowledge is obvious and her desire to share thoroughly genuine. A pleasure to attend and very insightful. Thanks for the great class
Angela Zhu has provided several extremely popular Tai Chi sessions for University of NSW staff members. We initially engaged Angela for one lunchtime session for R U OK? Day in 2016. By popular demand we immediately booked her in again for four more sessions during October’s Mental Health Month.
Angela is obviously knowledgeable about her subject matter and communicates well with participants. Her sessions are accessible to all levels of ability and it is a pleasure to take part in them. Everyone is extremely relaxed and rejuvenated after each session and many people have mentioned that they would like us to provide weekly sessions all year round!
” The balanced, strong and gentle movements lead to an internal quietness. Our focus, concentration, and energy are much stronger. Our movements have become more fluid, even and constant.”
We started learning Tai Chi with Angela a few years ago, and last year, our group asked Angela if she would teach us the 24 forms. We work in harmony – our classes feel like a meditation. We feel very connected, and the sharing and friendship within the group results in powerful and more complete learning – and a complex self awareness. Each person brings something different and extra to the classes, and we help each other, and share friendship and humour. We laugh and cry together while learning and being stretched both mentally and physically. We bring our learning into our daily life – we all breathe and walk differently now – we are much straighter and stronger.
Learning Tai Chi has helped us to stretch and relax our bodies. The balanced, strong and gentle movements lead to an internal quietness. Our focus, concentration, and energy are much stronger. Our movements have become more fluid, even and constant. The regular practice helps us improve our fitness, and trains our minds and bodies. All of us have experienced improvements in balance, flexibility and strength, in breathing and concentration. Our bones, muscles and joints are stronger and more flexible. We learn the importance of mindfulness in our learning and practice.
The course was fascinating. Angela had a huge depth of knowledge and is an excellent and friendly communicator.
Not only did I find the theory and practices very useful but I loved the poetic (compared to western medicine) conceptualisations to be very profound. E.g. That the tongue is the shoot of the heart, The Sea of the Brain.
Thanks, Angela
” We work in harmony – our classes feel like a meditation. We feel very connected, and the sharing and friendship within the group results in powerful and more complete learning – and a complex
We look forward to these visits – the workshops are always relaxing, always engaging and on each visit we learn new skills to use in our everyday lives.
As a mother of two young children with a full time job in advertising, this time last year I found myself doing things for everyone else instead of myself. Stressed out from being pulled in too many directions, I was aware I needed to learn relaxation techniques and ways to improve my overall health. I also wasn’t confident that I would be able to keep pace with my chosen career in another decade.
Angela’s teaching course appealed to me for all of those reasons, and even though I was a “tai chi virgin” as Angela affectionately calls me, I know it was the right choice for me. By the end I had the knowledge, skills and confidence to teach others how to improve their wellbeing too, which is an amazingly rewarding job – unlike anything I have ever experienced. To find something that you are passionate about, and then share it with others for their benefit is truly joyous and I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend it to anyone.
My wife has been treated for some time by an alternative medicine practitioner so I turned to her for advice after the 7 weeks of radiation was completed. She referred me to a well known Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner who started treating me with acupuncture. The result was nothing short of amazing. The cancer was beaten and I have recovered from the Radiation very quickly with no side effects, regained all functions of my body and continued to enjoy life to the full. My family, friends and the doctors were all surprised at my speedy recovery, after all I was seventy years old by then.
I have continued with my three days of acupuncture a week since with this wonderful Chinese lady who now has a Traditional Chinese Medicine practice she proudly calls Traditional Qi. To show my gratitude to Angela Tian Zhu for restoring my health, I am now doing voluntary work at her practice.
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