3 of the 75 mind & mental wellbeing listings in the directory match this view. The count is live, and the order below is members first, then alphabetical — never by rating.
Each is a filtered view of the 75 listings — it counts, it never ranks.
Chen-style tai chi in the Zhu Tiancai lineage, taught through a ten-week beginner program aligned with WA school terms — posture, breathing, silk reeling and the 13 Postures routine — at Troy Park in Attadale on Saturday mornings, with a second venue in Safety Bay. Beginner classes run on donation; annual membership is $40.
A martial arts school teaching tai chi and qigong alongside kung fu for more than twenty years, with academies in Balcatta and Fremantle. The tai chi and qigong streams sit at the wellness end of the practice — slow-form work for balance, breath and focus, for adults and children.
Sifu James Lui teaches Choy Lee Fut kung fu alongside Lohan qigong at three hall-and-oval venues across the river — South Perth, Brentwood and Myaree. The qigong is not a warm-up bolted onto the martial art but its own stream, which is rarer in Perth than the number of kung fu schools would suggest.
Three quite different things share this shelf, and timetables rarely say which one you are booking.
Meditation classes are usually guided sittings — someone talks, you sit, it lasts half an hour to an hour. Mindfulness is more often taught as a course over six or eight weeks with the same group each time, and the practice is homework between sessions rather than the session itself. Breathwork is the physically demanding one: sustained patterned breathing that can leave your hands tingling and your emotions closer to the surface than you expected. Counselling and coaching are one-to-one and booked like an appointment.
On practicalities: several Perth sittings are free or by donation, and those tend to be the volunteer-run ones rather than the studios. Courses ask you to commit to the whole run and usually cost less per session than dropping in. Breathwork facilitators generally ask about pregnancy, heart conditions and epilepsy before a first session, so expect that question and answer it honestly.
Related: meditation classes, mindfulness coaching, breathwork, counselling, and yoga and movement.
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Elaine MacLeod has run The Peace Practice since 2016, working in the Usui/Holy Fire and Karuna Reiki systems from her Mount Lawley studio. One-to-one reiki sessions run in person or at distance, alongside reiki training workshops, space clearing, and reiki-infused meditation mini-courses. Bookings are online; gift vouchers available.
Running since 2005 under founders with research doctorates and a thoughtful, non-performative approach, this Colin Street studio teaches Ashtanga, Vinyasa, Yin and pregnancy yoga in person and online. The three-week unlimited introduction is a proper way to test whether a regular practice fits your week.
