Tai Chi & Training for Mental Health & Wellbeing ...
Open Awareness Tai Chi:
Friends For Lived Tai Chi is a gentle, mental-wellbeing focused movement practice that uses Tai Chi as a container for awareness, mental health and emotional healing.
Practiced collectively, the sessions create a shared field of calm and belonging.
Together, participants experience that wellbeing emerges in motion, awareness, and connection. Tai Chi is moving meditation. We move slowly. We breathe. We soften. Thoughts come and go like clouds, and we do not chase them. The body leads, the breath steadies, and the mind follows.
The sessions are delivered throughout various venues in and around the Southend City area.
Royston Kymberly
Tai Chi, Performance & Mental Health Training
Royston began studying Tai Chi in 1988. During years of international travel and work within the Casino industry, an environment of intensity, long hours and constant pressure, Tai Chi became his way to stay centred. It was not simply exercise; it was balance in motion.
Alongside this, Royston built a 30+ year career in high-performance tennis coaching, later becoming a leading figure in UK Padel. For over two decades he has studied neuroscience, performance psychology and human learning.
He has also studied Taoism and philosophy, integrating principles such as alignment with natural rhythm into both his coaching and mental health work. Royston brings together: Traditional Tai Chi, Taoist philosophy, Nervous system regulation and Modern neuroscience. His classes are not about perfect forms. They are about returning to centre, in movement, in meditation, and in life.
