The Taiji School - Auckland NZ

23/07/2026

The TaiJi School follows the teachings of their instructor, Patrick Kelly:
PATRICK'S TEACHINGS
An intelligent synthesis of Daoist, Gnostic (Sufi) & Yogic teachings

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"Seek a broad balance of life experience"
"Find a real teacher then do what they say"
"Cultivate your Energy"
"Refine the Inner Self"
"Reach for the Beyond"

"Seek a broad balance of life experience"
While balancing action, feeling and thought
–Harm no one, help those near to you Respond positively, don't react
Understand others, change yourself
This tunes your outer life to your Inner Self –
rather than gross body reactions ruling your inner life,
as they do in unrefined people.

"Find a real teacher then do what they say"
Follow their advice accurately and intelligently
This is the only way to freedom, everything else being circles within your own brain consciousness, no matter how brilliant that seems (to itself).

"Cultivate your Energy"
Train genuine
Taiji, Yoga, or similar
This generates the energy which supports your Inner Self's growth within the Deep Mind's 3 realms of human existence – Etheric, Astral (Deep Emotional) & Celestial (Deep Mental).

"Refine the Inner Self"
Change yourself through
Struggle, Acceptance, Separation
Relate to others by practicing
Giving, Receiving, Sharing
Open to higher influences with
Respect, Gratitude, Humility
This assists your Inner Self to evolve higher and deeper into the inner realms.

"Reach for the Beyond"
Direct your mind towards your highest concept of the Beyond, then realise, as the Beyond grows within, that your outer human existence is next to nothing.

This allows the Inner Self to gradually dissolve its outer structure and merge with the Beyond.

22/07/2026

Our new beginners classes have started, (Monday July the 20th), so it's a good time to join in and try the classes. We offer the first 2 classes without charge, so you can get a feel for how the class operates, and see if it is a good fit.
Over the next 3-4 months, the twice weekly class will lead students through the 5 loosening movements, TaiJi short form as well as some two person exercises.
Beginners classes are held weekly on Mondays and Thursdays from 6.30pm to 8pm at Onehunga Community House (Mondays room 5, Thursdays room 4).
You may come and watch a class before starting. It's a good opportunity to ask any questions you have and see what we do. Alternatively, just come along and join in.
We ask students regularly train for 2 classes a week to give the best opportunity for progress.
Please reach out to [email protected], or find more about our school at www.TheTaiJiSchool.co.nz, or find us on Instagram or Facebook

25/06/2026

The TaiJi School offers new beginners classes for winter 2026.
Starting mid July in Onehunga, over 3-4 months, the twice weekly class will lead students through the 5 loosening movements, TaiJi short form as well as some two person exercises.
Classes start Monday 20th of July. Beginners classes are held weekly on Mondays and Thursdays from 6.30pm to 8pm at Onehunga Community House.
You may come and watch a class before starting. It's a good opportunity to ask any questions you have and see what we do. Alternatively, just come along to the new class. The first week is at no charge, so you can experience a class and see if it's a good fit for you.
Please reach out to [email protected], or find more about our school at www.TheTaiJiSchool.co.nz, or find us on Instagram or Facebook

03/06/2026

The Singapore Taiji school has some great posts. Nicely centred around Master Huang, giving a tangible connection to our Taiji history

28/01/2026

If you are in the UK and looking for good Taiji, Joe is highly recommended.
An excellent communicator and skilled practitioner - not a common combination.

Traditional Taiji in the footsteps of Patrick A Kelly, Huang Xingxian, Huang Sheng Shyan lineage, classes, Northeast England, UK.

04/10/2025

The deep emotions

One of the benefits of the spiritual training of Taiji is that beyond the physical benefits of health and energy we also gain tools of emotional management as our sensitivity into the subtle functions of the nervous system gives us earlier awareness of the effects of our hormonal and psychological patterns of response on the level of the body. This gives us a gradually increasing freedom from the animal responses of the body as we get better at catching ourselves before we fall into ingrained emotional patterns of reaction.
However, the greatest emotional benefits lie in the first level of our being beyond the body, sometimes called the deep emotions.
The deep emotions are beyond the physical and chemical patterns in the nervous system and the hormonal system, beyond the animal reality of our physical bodies, and is the source of our deepest most positive emotions independent of the temporary physical body. It is by feeding, nourishing and growing stronger our deep emotions that we gain not only freedom from the negative emotions of the body, but also allowing our deepest most positive emotions to take a larger and larger place in our lives.
Gradually the animal is reined in and selfless respect, gratitude and humility can take its place in our lives.

In the photo Taiji-master Patrick Kelly practicing yuantui(round arms,圆推) with his wife Marianne

16/09/2025

It may seem strange seeing a post like this on a Taiji School page, but at the heart of the matter, good esoteric systems are digging into the same thing - the deeper parts of ourselves.
Different systems express it in their own understandings, but this is like different signposts pointing to the same place

TRACE THE EGO TO ITS SOURCE

“Be still and know! This is to be done by practising the art of meditation deep into its second stage and then--for it cannot properly be done before--tracing the ego to its hidden lair. Here it must be faced. Being still involves the achievement of mental silence, without which the ego remains cunningly active and keeps you within its sphere of influence. Knowing involves penetrating to the ego's secret source where, in its lulled and weakened condition, it can be confronted and killed.”

“When the great battle is over, the Overself will give you back your ego without giving back its dominance.”

Tracing back to the source: https://www.paulbrunton.org/notebooks/8/5

18/08/2025

Translated from DE Zachte Kracht Taichischool

Who are the old masters?

Patrick Kelly began his esoteric studies in the 1970s with three main teachers. The taiji we practice is an intelligent synthesis of the 3 internal systems. Sufi/Gnostic, Daoist/Buddhist, yoga.

He taught Taiji to one of the most talented Taiji teachers of recent times, Master Huang Xingxian (1908-1992).

He learned Gnostic wisdom from Naqshibandi Sufi Abdullah Dougan (1918-1987)

He studied Raja Yoga with the Rajasthani Yogi Mouni Maharaj (1899?-2007)

Since the early 1980s, Daoist Master Ni Huaching (1898-) has been a friend and advisor.

The old Masters walk the road for us and offer help and support when you reach out.