I am Charlotte (aka Hridayagita) – Registered Craniosacral Therapist (RCST) and Advanced Tai Chi teacher (TCUGB), and I am the founder of Dragons Heart Breath and Craniosacral Worcester. I offer movement classes for people who want to feel more comfortable in their bodies and happier in their lives.
My classes are radical yet very simple! Re-find your joy…
Why “Dragons Heart Breath?”
Dragons are powerful mythical creatures. They protect deeply buried treasures and are renowned for their great wisdom, support and energy. Uncovering our inner sleeping dragons, through movement allows the latent energy to re-energise and empower our lives.
Finding and following our heart’s deepest wish is often steamrollered by our culture, the media and our own rational mind. This leaves us unhappy and unfulfilled as we endlessly chase the dreams of our society, parents or friends; rather than our own. Exploring our Heart and the emotional landscape brings engagement, joy and deeper meaning to the life we already have, or would like to move towards.
Using the Breath, or more explicitly, the whole Breathing Body, and coming into positive relationship with the body as it moves in space, opens us up to the full potentiality of our lives. Seeing how we’ve buried deep within ourselves criticism and trauma, can help us release and let go, recalibrate and increase our self-empathy and open up to love for ourselves and others. And we’ll get fitter and healthier without even “trying”!
Dragons – Empower and Energise
Heart – Explore and Enjoy
Breath – Engage and Empathise
I am based in Worcester and offer individual one2one Tai Chi training or Tai Chi for Two – couples, family pairs, business partners or friends – Tai Chi and Tai Chi Shibashi in my clinic in Barbourne, Worcester, UK, or online. I also offer half day/whole day retreats incorporating the principles alongside my love of Dance, Music and Embodied Meditation.
My hope is that I can offer more and more opportunities for people to discover safe and joyful ways to move. Together we move to increase health, wellbeing and a sense of aliveness.
My Tai Chi Story
I grew up loving dance. I studied Ballet as a child and into my teens, but I was never going to become a ballerina and that seemed to be all that was on offer… When I first moved to Worcester in 1997, I soon discovered DanceFest and quickly joined the adult contemporary dance class (at that time run by Marie Oldaker). I loved the choreography class and site-specific performances we did as a group around the city and county.
I started playing Tai Chi in 2000 to help improve my embodiment and focus. I wanted something to improve my flow in dance; and instead, I found something that transformed the flow of my life. Alan Smith (Heartland Tai Chi) was inspirational and I felt myself becoming more grounded and alive to my experience as well as much kinder to myself! I loved learning the forms: Short Form, Mirror Form, Long Form, Sword Form, Single and Double Push Hands and Ta Lu. Alan encouraged me to train as a Tai Chi teacher and I have been teaching Tai Chi for health and wellbeing in workshops and on retreats since 2007. The simple flow of Tai Chi and integration and connection of the whole body, in movement with the breath, brings greater ease and delight to my life.
My approach is to bring imagination, mindfulness and kindness to the moving, playing body. I offer to help all ages and abilities find the joy of movement, including gentle and/or seated for people who still want to move but find standing tiring or more difficult.
I am also a registered Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist and run my private clinic: Craniosacral Therapy Worcester alongside my partner Matt of Heartlands Therapy.