Mark Popplewell

County Coach West Yorkshire Division

Learn the Beautiful Chinese Art of Tai Chi

Wouldn’t you like to improve your energy, posture, balance and general health?

Now you can learn Tai Chi at a time to suit you. Flexible learning means you can attend any class or combination of classes. Miss a week if you have to and still catch up. Drop in and be made welcome at any class on any day. 

Mark joined the EWTA in 2004 and completed the teacher training course under the personal supervision of Howard.  He has since been awarded a 3rd teng ji (red belt) for Tai Chi and a first teng ji for Feng Shou.

In the West Yorkshire area Mark Popplewell is supported by other qualified instructors, senior students and many enthusiastic beginners.

receiving his red belt

Mark has been practising and teaching the Lee style of Tai Chi for 26 years.  Over the years he has taught Tai Chi and Feng Shou to many students in a mixture of adult education and private classes; some of those students have themselves become teachers with the East-West Taoist Association.  Courses have included Tai Chi for a drug rehabilitation project and a weekly class for police officers and administration staff.

The East-West Taoist Association is headed by Master Howard Gibbon

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  Howard and his numerous Instructors, feel privileged to teach the Lee Style of T’ai Chi Chuan, as taught by Master Chee Soo, Howard’s very own teacher for over 21 years.

Mark takes a keen interest in helping others to achieve healthy lifestyles, encouraging the practice of Tai Chi and the related arts of Kai Men and Dao Yin as well as healthy eating and the use of complementary therapies.  He is a Chinese medicine practitioner and a member of the British Acupuncture Council and the Register of Chinese Herbal Medicine.  He has been to China on three occasions, working for two weeks in the acupuncture departments of two Beijing hospitals and visiting Taoist temples in a number of cities and on Tai Shan and Lao Shan mountains.

Study with qualified, knowledgeable and enthusiastic instructors.

Membership of the East - West Taoist Association is just £15 a year so you are covered by our master insurance policy.  Then pay as you go (£4 to £5) at any of the classes below .

This covers you for person to person liability as well as public liability. Your instructor has a teacher's certificate of insurance and you are entitled to ask to see it should you wish.

 Janet Taylor

01924 261452

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Brewery Lane, Thornhill Lees, Dewsbury.

Mark Popplewell

01924 462261

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Healthy Living Centre,

St George's Road, Lupset, Wakefield.

Pat Gay

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Horbury.

 Janet Taylor

01924 261452

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Prospect Road (near Brook Street), Ossett

Pat Gay

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Westgate End, Wakefield.

Mark Popplewell

01924 462261

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     Saturdays Day courses in Dewsbury and Scarborough. Please contact instructor for details.