Tai Chi Our History

We are John & Diane Ward, the senior instructors for the LFA T'ai Chi in Scotland.

We have been teaching LFA T'ai Chi since 1998 in and around the Edinburgh area and now have 21 classes. We teach LFA T'ai Chi in a very easy to learn way as we break the movements down to their simplest form.

Firstly we start with some feet movements then incorporte the hands when you feel comfortable, this way you don't have to think of too many things at once making it easier on your mind and you leave the class feeling better than you came in!

To find out more about what LFA T'ai Chi can do for you, click on ' The benefits ' button.

We train under Sheila Dickinson, the President and Master Instructor of the LFA. Every month we travel to Yorkshire to continue our own training and developement. Several times a year Sheila comes up to Edinburgh so our students can train with her at all day workshops.

The Lee Family style of t'ai chi dates back more than 3,000 years to ancient China.

Chan Kam Lee, who was the last in the line of the Lee family brought the Arts to the UK in the 1930s. Chan Kam Lee befriended a chinese orphan boy called Chee Soo who was cared for in one of Dr Barnardo's London holmes.

He trained Chee in the Arts and eventually adopted him. When Chan Kam Lee died, Chee Soo became the Grand Master of the Lee Family Arts, with instructors teaching under his guidance both nationally and internationally.

Sheila Dickinson trained with Chee Soo on alternate weekends attending four-day courses every Easter and two-week Summer courses every year.

This intensive level of training continued for over a decade. On the 16 May 1994, while staying with Shiela and her family.

Chee talked about the future of the LEE FAMILY ARTS and asked Sheila to give him her word that she would not let the arts die, which she did. Sadly, Grand Master Chee Soo died on the 29 August 1994.

Sheila is now the President of LFA T'ai Chi and the Master Instructor with thousands of students under her wing.

Sheila has produced a number of videos and written a series of books on the LFA T'ai Chi Health Arts.

Copyright LFA 2004