Tai Chi & Qigong w/Robin Betton
American Tai Chi & Qigong Association (ATCQA) Certified Tai Chi Level 2 Instructor + USA Boxing Coaching Certification
Tai Chi & Qigong Group Training in Boston
$200/month
For sincere seekers of high quality Internal Arts Training. For those driven to learn, build and level up Taijiquan and Neigong/Qigong skills, martial prowess and transformation. For those seeking to invest in themselves through hands on training.
Zoom Online Classes
$120/month
Zoom Classes Mon. to Thurs. - $100/month (attend as many as you like +
Pre-Recorded Online Beginner’s Package Videos)
*Private Lessons Monthly Package*
(***Upon Application Only to best serve your training targets***)
$500 for 4 lessons per month 1.5 hours each
1-on-1 coaching sessions focusing on the deeper aspects of Tai Chi and Qigong. Intermediate and Advanced skills usually considered reserved for “inner-door” students. Deeper level Martial and Health cultivation.
Payment accepted through Paypal friends and family robin.betton@gmail.com
About Me
Yang Style Tai Chi Chuan for Health and Self Defense based on the teachings of Master Huang Sheng Shyan.
I teach material learned from Mark Rasmus’s Elastic Force course usually considered closed door information as well as a decade of training, traveling to workshops from top level teachers and private lessons in Taijiquan, Baguazhang and Xingyiquan. I am also officially certified through the American Tai Chi & Qigong Association (ATCQA) as a Certified Tai Chi Instructor (Level II).
Beginning Jan. 30 2023 my full time job is working for the US Department of Veterans Affairs as a full time Tai Chi Instructor in Prescott Arizona. I recently transferred as of June 2023 and am now located an hour north of Boston working at the Manchester NH VA again as a fulltime Tai Chi Instructor within the VA Whole Health and Pain/Rehabilitation divisions. I work with a large number of patients with a wide variety of medical conditions including PTSD, TBI, MST, Musculoskeletal disorders and offer Tai Chi and movement courses for VA Diabetes/weight managment, Tai Chi for Fall Prevention and general classes for stress relief and pain/movement rehabilitation.
Additionally I offer Private Lessons, Skype Lessons and Small Group weekly intensives for dedicated students on weekends and after my work shift is over at the VA.
I also offer in person lessons in addition to online personalized coaching material (video, pdf, .mp3) that students can work on to build their own practice. Students will need something to film and record themselves and be able to email it to me for feedback and review.
About Me: I recently finished a 3 month training trip studying with senior Disciple Curtis Brough who is taught by Sifu Adam Mizner of Heaven Man Earth Taijiquan. I found HME taiji through their online training course. I then was curious enough to visit Jim Russo HME affiliate teacher for class and private instruction in upstate NY. I then attended HME 3 day seminars in NY and Italy to see if the level of the instructors was “good enough”. It definitely is set to a high standard.. Another highlight was being able to travel to the UK for small group private training with HME senior instructor Andy Mack in London. Most recently I finished the HME 7 day camp in Milwaukee.
Before then my experience was 4 years of classes, once yearly 3 day seminars with Luo Dexiu and instruction with Luo’s student Marcus Opalenik of Gao style Yizong Baguazhang. I did a training trip in 2015 to Taiwan for private lessons with senior Yizong instructors and disciple of Luo Dexiu Marcus Brinkman. In between solo and school training also trained non-compliant sparring.
Before that I trained in Bruce Frantzis’s system at Brookline Tai Chi under Dan Kleiman and Nate Hribar and made it to Ibiza in 2016 for Bruce Frantzis’s Bagua/Standing intensive. My very first internal arts martial arts classes were Wudang Daoist Gate Xingyiquan in Boston with Sifu Xuan Yun.
Tai Chi/Xingyi/Bagua Fundamentals Class
Opening the body/warmups
Standing qigong (Clear blocked energy, Sink the qi and store energy in lower dantian)
Huang Sheng Shyan Loosening exercises
Cloud Hands + Spine stretch
Master Huang Sheng Shyan 37 Form
Push hands + martial applications
Testimonials
VA STUDENTS
“Tai Chi - Absolutely Amazing. I feel much calmer. Less angry. Centered all day. Life Saver”
SBV Verwolf
“Robin is instrumental in my recovery physical, mental & Spiritual. As a 20 year practitioner of martial science I have not seen a better instructor”
D.M. Wright
“Tai Chi has been a valuable tool in my recovery to help and stimulate my brain and help in meditation at night”
M. Parker
“This is my first experience with Tai Chi. I have to say how much it has helped my physical recovery after weight lifting days. Also on the days I attend Tai Chi I find myself able to fall asleep with much ease”
D. Lozada
WISCONSIN and additional testimonials
"As a fellow student of 2 Tai Chi Instructor courses HME (Heaven Man Earth) and Tai Chi Chuan with Sifu Mark Rasmus I have gotten to know Robin Betton. He is a skilled Tai Chi practitioner as well as a skilled instructor. We have often collaborated about Tac Chi. From Tai Chi philosophies and movements to push hands applications. I have watched him teach and it is a pleasure to see him helping others learn the art of Tai Chi and Qigong. He has a good understanding of breathing, body mechanics and the use of Qi. I would trust and recommend him to teach my friends and family." - Donald Francis Owner / Shifu New Life Kung Fu
"Robin has always impressed me with a rare combination of playful curiosity and earnest industry. He has been able to remain open to various teachings, ideas, and instructional approaches while staying eager and inquisitive. Robin’s sensitivity and powers of perception also seem remarkable to me. Lessons with Robin have always benefited me because he can ‘listen’ so well, pointing out aspects and details that I was overlooking." – Michael Koch, PhD
“I have been running thru your teachings . You are the best "teacher" I HAVE EVER HAD” - Joel Saladino
“Great class and instructor. Robin did a great job educating us in the basics and value of the practice. Thank you. “ - Becky Guinn”
“Robin’s Classes are Awesome!” - Mary
“I've observed, in what seems like the ever changing organic flow of life, new and unique tasks at hand often show up with a teacher. A few years ago I was practicing tai chi in the hallway of The New England Conservatory of music and it was there Robin Betton introduced himself. We talked a bit about Tai Chi, he gave me a book, and a few years later he was my teacher. Robin is helping me relax, soften, and take another step toward an understanding of a truer nature of life, one constantly in flux. I find, with the application and practice of the techniques and concepts he imparts, a new and developing evolution in how I see myself within the bigger picture. Robin, thank you for helping me toward greater depth in Tai chi and in life.”
-Gary Fieldman
New England Conservatory Preparatory and Continuing Education Faculty member (Jazz Percussion and Ensemble)
http://www.garyfieldman.com/
