Instructor
Learning Tai Chi Qi Gong is an internal journey, where others can only point you in the right direction. There are many paths, and everyone has their own speed and method of moving forward.
A good teacher will be able to encourage you with this and make the path a little clearer.
Isabelle Kandler
Isabelle has been training in LAMAS Tai Chi Qigong since 1997.
She has been teaching courses, seminars and private classes in Tai Chi Qi Gong for over thirteen years, and was an assistant instructor for several years before that.
In June 2011, she was awarded Master Grade in LAMAS Qigong. She has completed the instructor training course, and has students who are now teaching or assisting.
Her main instructors in LAMAS Tai Chi Qi Gong are Senior Instructor Richard Williams (Swindon, UK) and Grandmaster Adrian Lowe (UK and USA), the lineage holder and heir of the style.
Picture of Isabelle demonstrating White Crane Brushes Knee
Picture of part of the Great Wall of China, 2018
To further her professional development, Isabelle attends regular yearly workshops with Bruce Frantzis (Energy Arts, USA) and his student Gio Maschio (UK) to develop the more internal aspects of her qigong, neigong and meditation practice; and intensive Training Courses with He Jinbao (Beijing, China), in Yin Style Bagua Zhang, to focus on the soft internal martial arts aspect of the use of energy.
Isabelle has made several training and cultural trips to China.
In 2018, Isabelle trained at Chen Village in Chen style Tai Chi and standing practice, and visited friends, Beijing's Forbidden City, Xi'An's terracotta army, and Suzhou's famous gardens, including the Humble Administrator's garden.
In 2025, Isabelle trained in Huairou, Beijing in Yin Style Bagua including Bagua Sword, and visited friends, Beijing's Summer Palace, and tea forests in Yunnan, in the south of China.
She does not teach any of these styles to date.
One World Day workshop at Brookes University
Tea Forests in Yunnan, China, 2025
Picture of kung fu students posing
Isabelle also teaches Tiger Style Kung Fu, which she has trained for twenty years. Tiger Kung Fu is an external martial art, and it links in with the five animals taught in LAMAS Qi Gong for internal wellbeing. All these five animals unify into dragon, becoming the yin and yang of the style through the tiger and the dragon.
Generally, the martial aspect of the internal art is only taught as a point of interest in Tai Chi Qi Gong classes. Several students therefore study both the internal Tai Chi Qi Gong, and the external Tiger Kung fu. (To link to Classic Tiger Kung Fu, click here.)
Isabelle has collaborated with the Confucius Institute at Brookes University (One World Week, and China Day), and with Go Active Oxfordshire, and school China Days.
"I've been suffering with both golfer's elbow and tennis elbow for a few months and at times it has been very painful and debilitating in spite of following NHS exercises.
After just one class with Isabelle both my elbows were hugely better and I was again able to do things that I had been struggling with, like picking up a book. Three weeks later and with just a little practice at home my elbows feel almost 100% better. Thank you Isabelle!"
Tennis Ellbow/ Golfer's Elbow (2022)