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She has been training for over 30 years, (it’s 37 actually!) mostly in the Chinese styles like kung-fu and Tai Chi (she’s also practiced Bruce Lee’s Jeet Kune Do, Wing Chun, Chinese Boxing, Fencing and spent three years training in the Indian martial art of Kalarippayattu).

Alongside martial arts, Jayne has practiced formal seated meditation (like the Buddhist monks) for 25 years and has never gone more than a few days without practising first thing in the morning.

Based on the understanding her background has given her, of the relationship between the mind, the breath, the body and attaining the coveted flow-state (aka ‘the zone’) she has written three bestselling books to help people improve their golf and sport using the centuries-old principles and practices she has trained in for most of her life.

You can read more about Jayne’s books here 

There are many reasons why she wrote these books, and there had to have STRONG REASONS WHY because she started planning them way back in 2011 and constantly rewrote them until she was satisfied that they were the DEFINITIVE GUIDES to help struggling athletes overcome all forms of self-interference, perform at their best and enjoy their sport more.

Alongside martial arts, Jayne has loved sport since she was a teenager. When she was younger, she enjoyed cycling, running and pushing heavy weights in the gym but now she tends to swim and take long walks in the park, but she still works out in her home gym every week (although she has to stretch a lot more afterwards than she used to!)

So many athletes, especially golfers, suffer instead of excel in their sport, getting angry, frustrated and disheartened. Jayne’s unique experience has shown that it’s not their fault and it’s not because they have no real talent or potential – it’s because of the current mainstream paradigm and THE WAY SPORTS PERFORMANCE IS COACHED.

More specifically, there is little distinction made between the approach necessary to train and hone movement skills and the approach needed to execute and release those skills when playing and performing.

The body cannot move well when the mind is overloaded with technical instruction or even affirmative and motivational thinking, but most coaching will have you think about your technique while talking positively to yourself.

Here’s a little story to illustrate how the Chi Performance method developed.

Around the turn of the millennium, due to the feedback Jayne was getting from her Tai Chi students, who were commenting that the regular classes they were attending were naturally helping them to improve their recreational golf, competitive swimming and holiday skiing, she decided to investigate.

Jayne soon discovered that the meditative state attained when practising Tai Chi with its breath control, internal focus, and mind-body unity, is a direct parallel to the flow-state experienced by athletes in those moments of excellence like the pure golf shot, the perfect underwater turn in the middle of a freestyle race, or a fearless slalom ski run.

Her students at the time (she was still teaching classes then and hadn’t yet begun working full time with athletes) started enjoying their sport more and performing at levels beyond what they previously thought they were capable of. Every Saturday at ten o’clock when the doors opened at her Tai Chi club in Virginia Water, they would regale her with one example after another of how their balance, breathing, posture, leg strength and so on had all improved, how much better they were getting at the sports they loved, how much more able they were to execute their skills – and this was in additional to all the mental health and wellbeing benefits they were gaining too, not to mention the medals and trophies they were winning!

It soon became Jayne’s overarching mission to bring this training to all athletes who want to practice and apply ancient wisdom to sports and this is what she’s been doing ever since. Just to be clear, you don’t have to spend years learning Tai Chi in order to take your sport to the next level. This is exactly why Jayne put together the Chi Performance method, which is based on the essential elements of the world’s oldest mind-body disciplines like Tai Chi and its related arts, so that you can train in as little as 20 – 60 minutes each day and still get all the benefits to improve your sport.