Mindful Motion Tai-Chi Academy

"Classes are available for beginners, intermediate, and advanced students. The emphasis is on learning and doing and improving. If you want to learn authentic Tai Chi, Hsing-Yi or Bagua from a highly skilled teacher who has authentic verfiyable lineage, there is no better place. They teach these styles as art, with solo, two person, weapons, and self defense however this is not a fighting school there is no violence, most students are older, and students are not injured. A great place with a welcoming environment to learn, practice and improve yourself."

"Ray Hayward has dedicated his life to the practice and teaching of Tai Chi and it shows in all aspects (physical, mental, historical or philosophical) of his instruction. Ask him anything! There are students at his school who've been with him over twenty years. The twin cities is lucky to have teaching of this caliber in any art. I never hesitate to recommend the Mindful Motion Tai Chi Academy to anyone."

"I switched to Mindful Motion Tai-Chi Academy after studying tai-chi and qigong elsewhere for three months -- just long enough to know I wanted to stick with it long-term and should find the best possible teacher to study with. Sifu Ray Hayward has spent more than forty years mastering tai-chi, qigong, and several related Chinese martial arts forms. The forms he teaches were transmitted to him by renowned Yang-style masters T.T. Liang and Wai Lun Choi. (If you watch the "Tai-Chi 72-Movement Medium Form" video on the website, you'll see the foundational form he teaches and witness how perfectly he embodies it.) Sifu Ray has a gentle and patient style of teaching, with close attention to details and to explaining the principles involved. Disciples who have studied with him for decades are also excellent teachers who will help you greatly. You may feel slightly intimidated at first as a beginner since you'll be integrated into the main class, but you'll find the atmosphere is completely welcoming and supportive. Go here if you want to take a deep plunge into tai-chi and gradually realize all its extraordinary benefits for both physical and mental health."

"I highly recommend Mindful Motion Tai- Chi Academy. Under the watchful direction of Sifu Ray Hayward, one will be introduced to novel insights of T’ai Chi, no matter what your past experience has been."

"I have been Sifu Hayward student for about the last 16 years. Instruction there has been good for my body, It has improved my patience , helped me to relax, and given me a chance to learn truly powerful and intense strategies of martial arts. What is offered is extraordinarily rare knowledge taught by a Master of 46 years of experience who has been a long term student if several peerless and famed of Masters. Instruction by Sifu Hayward is not only from a skilled practitioner but he is also a skilled, patient and gentle teacher. He has taught me by example that no matter what you know you should never stop learning.."