Content over form.

I’m Chris, based in and around Wilmslow / Greater Manchester. I work with people using Tai Chi / Qigong-informed practice and craniosacral therapy.

My bias is simple: content over form. I’m interested in the living person in front of me. I’m not here to perform certainty or teach from a pedestal — we’re asking real questions together and letting what’s true emerge through direct experience.

I came to this work through a slightly unconventional route. I spent years in music — playing, touring, and training my ears through studio work. At some point I realised that learning to listen into sound also taught me a lot about sensitivity and attention: once you can hear the nuance, it’s hard to switch it off.

In my twenties I returned to martial arts via Wing Chun, and later found myself increasingly drawn toward Tai Chi / Qigong and the internal side of training — circles, spirals, and working directly with energy rather than brute force.

Through close friendship and collaboration with other teachers, I was introduced to craniosacral therapy and began receiving sessions myself. That opened a door into deeper personal work and a more layered understanding of healing — and of what the nervous system is actually doing underneath the story we tell ourselves.

I’m also neurodivergent (AuDHD). That matters here, not as a “niche”, but because it shaped how I learn, how I teach, and how seriously I take sensitivity: noise, attention, overwhelm, and the need for autonomy and honest pacing.

• Breath and nervous-system reality.
• Felt structure — what the body is actually doing, not what it “should” look like.
• Relationship: between people, within a person, and with the world.
• Adult play as a serious way to learn.
• Taoist health arts as a root system, translated into plain language first.

One of the most useful Taoist principles I lean on is the 70% rule — roughly two thirds: stay inside your capacity, avoid strain, and let things deepen over time. It’s surprisingly radical in a culture that trains people to override themselves.

I don’t promise a perfect safe person or a perfect safe space. I’m fallible like anyone. What I do build is a culture of autonomy:

• Pause / stop / change is always valid.
• Your felt yes/no matters.
• We adjust rather than override signals.

If you’re looking for quick fixes, a guru dynamic, or “push through it” culture, this won’t be a match.