Leanne Mumford has been studying Tai Chi since 2000 as part of the Cheng Ming system of International Martial Arts.

She initially took up Tai Chi as a means to reduce her stress levels, and by the end of her second lesson of Cheng Ming Kung Fu, which incorporates Tai Chi as well as other arts, she was hooked!

Leanne works comfortably with people of all ages and backgrounds, and has a warm, friendly and gently encouraging manner.

Her personal experience of the multitude of benefits that Tai Chi has brought to her own wellbeing gives her the drive to want to share these benefits with the wider community.

Leanne still attends training weekly with her teachers in Bacchus Marsh, and as part of her training she is often called upon to teach other practitioners. This ongoing experience, along with many years of observing the style and professionalism of her own teachers, and of their teachers in Taiwan, has given Leanne a tremendous wealth of information and guidance from which to develop her own teaching style and strategies.

Leanne is an accredited Tai Chi teacher within the Chinese Martial Arts Cheng Ming International Kung Fu Association. She is also accredited as a teacher of a second Chinese martial art, Hsing I, within the Cheng Ming system, and is studying a further Chinese martial art, Ba Gua. In addition, she gained her karate teacher accreditation in the Goju Ryu karate style in 2007.

Since 2004 Leanne has travelled to Taiwan, the world headquarters of Cheng Ming International Kung Fu, at least once every year with her teachers. There she has been fortunate to undergo intensive training from the world-wide Head of Style, Grand Master Wang Fu Lai, as well as the world-wide Head Coach, Master Huang Su Chun, and to experience the richness of Chinese culture and the warmth of Taiwanese hospitality.