Three Treasures is a Tai Chi school dedicated to improving health, balance, and wellbeing through mindful movement. We offer expert-led classes both online and in person, helping people of all backgrounds experience the transformative benefits of Tai Chi in a supportive and welcoming environment.
Mission
Three Treasures exists to guide people of all ages and abilities on a journey of lifelong wellbeing through the art of Tai Chi. We offer in-person and online training that nurtures balance, mobility, and inner strength, blending tradition with modern accessibility. Rooted in care and community, we empower individuals to move better, breathe deeper, and live more mindfully. Our mission is to make Tai Chi approachable, enriching, and transformative—whether you're stepping into a studio, logging in from home, or just beginning your practice.
Vision
Our vision is to help others create and practice a lifestyle where Tai Chi is widely embraced as a path to healthier, more connected living. We aim to create a thriving community of practitioners who grow stronger in body and calmer in mind with every movement. Through evolving classes, digital resources, and outreach to workplaces and underserved communities, Three Treasures will lead the way in redefining wellness - one slow, purposeful step at a time. We envision a future where the principles of Tai Chi inspire how we move, relate, and live.
About Me
My name is Chris Nutley
I have been teaching Tai Chi for over 7 years and run classes, workshops and retreats the UK in Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire and through my online school ‘The Monkey Temple’.
I have trained in Tai Chi Chuan, Xing Yi Chuan, Western Boxing, MMA and Wing Chun. As Martial Arts are a continual learning process, I still study Tai Chi and am a 7th Generation disciple of Yang Style Tai Chi Chuan and am also a 7th generation disciple of Song Style Xing Yi Chuan under my teacher Alex Kozma.
I often say the study of Martial Arts is like reading a book that gets bigger the further you go. Like any art, they can never be truly mastered, we just continue to improve the more we study. This is one of the things I find most beautiful about them. I’m continually impressed by the shear genius of these arts.
I enjoy the fighting aspect and keep a strong focus on this with my teacher. I currently mostly teach the health and cultivation parts of the practice because this is where the vast majority of my student's interest lay. Tai Chi and Xing Yi have been proven to help strengthen muscles, bones, ligaments and tendons, to improve balance, joint health, mobility and flexibility, to help with stress, high blood pressure and arthritis, it can help to deepen the breath and calm and focus the mind. It has even been shown to have positive effects on holding off the effects of Parkinson’s. For myself I’m approaching the ‘summer’ of my life and know that by continuing to practice, I will significantly raise the chances of being healthy, strong, energetic and clear headed into old age.
As we all continue to be student every day, I train with my teacher Alex Kozma (a renown and published Martial Artist with over 40 years' experience). He is a constant source of inspiration and guidance for me and I’m grateful to him continually for his guidance and patience. His personal practice is in Ba Gua Zhang, Xing Yi Chuan, Tai Chi Chuan and Northern Shaolin Chuan. He is also a dedicated Buddhist.
My main focus in life now is Tai Chi Chuan and Xing Yi Chuan and how they can help me on my path of personal cultivation. I feel blessed to have found what it is that I want to do in this world and am happy that I get to teach these things along the way.
