Steven W Moore

Steven took up Tai Chi Chuan under Grand Master John R Kells at the British Tai Chi Chuan Association in 1984 whilst still a PhD student in London. Almost immediately he was hooked, and within six months was devoting himself to it full-time. In 1992 he was granted the title Master of Tai Chi Chuan. He started teaching in 1987 at the BTCCA and also for various adult education institutes in and around London. From 1996 to 2006 he was the senior student and principle instructor of the BTCCA, and primary research assistant to Dr Kells. In 1999 he opened his own Tai Chi school at the Round Chapel in Hackney, London. The school employed a number of Steven's advanced students as assistant instructors, creating a healthy atmosphere of learning and exchange, and enabling a large group to be split into smaller more intimate groups. So popular was the school (and so magnificent the venue) that classes often contained more than 50 students. In 2001 he handed over the Round Chapel school to Master Verne Crawford and moved with his teacher into the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire to live under monastic conditions, researching and developing the deep principles of Heartwork. Whilst in the Forest he traveled every month to London and every three months to Cork in Ireland to conduct Heartwork seminars. Each seminar confirmed his conviction that the vitality and generosity of Heartwork combined with the rigour and grace of Tai Chi is a potent method for transformation. A great believer in the power of networking and communication, he started his blog in May 2005 to allow students and interested parties to keep up to date with the developing Heartwork. In November 2006 he was invited to teach a three day Heartwork seminar in Israel by Nitsan Michaeli. Whilst in Israel he fell in love with Ronit Adar, a Tai Chi master in her own right, with whom he now lives in Tel Aviv with their baby daughter Tai.