Bruce Frantzis

The material taught at Oxford Internal Arts derives from the teachings of Bruce Frantzis.

Mr. Frantzis is well known in the West and in China both for his genuine mastery of the material (he is one of the very few, if not the only, Westerner regarded as a master of T’ai Chi in China) and for his ability and desire to communicate it to students very clearly and in its complete form, free of cultural and translational trappings.

Not only this, but over and above Frantzis being a lineage holder in T’ai Chi, he is a lineage holder in Taoism. Taoism is the origin of T’ai Chi’s internal knowledge of the body’s physical systems and energy, but Taoism is also very much concerned with how this relates to emotions, thinking, intuition and the complete range of human abilities, and how to balance these to benefit both the individual and the world around him or her.

All this enables an individual to approach important physical and energetic aspects of themselves through a complete range of techniques, without having to second-guess for the lack or opacity of the information. And it also enables an individual to approach the rest of their being with clarity, and develop themselves in a safe, fully integrated and balanced way, with a clear sense of how and why the techniques learned will help them.

Bruce teaches one retreat in Oxford Annually which is a great opportunity to