About this Event
Tai Chi in the Gardens with Nick Potter
Join us for a relaxed in-person session of Tai Chi led by Nick Potter. Enjoy the peaceful vibes of the gardens as you flow through gentle movements designed to boost your balance and calm your mind. Perfect for all levels—whether you're a beginner or have some experience. Come unwind, stretch, and connect with nature in a friendly, supportive setting. Don't miss out on this awesome opportunity to refresh your body and spirit!
Nick Potter is Consultant Osteopath at King Edward VII hospital and has consulted to Brevan Howard Asset Management, a leading hedge fund, for 14 years, as a consultant in Health and Well-being and Performance, and has pioneered the use of interoception to manage their traders’ stress levels. He runs busy clinics at the King Edward VII hospital specialising in chronic spinal and pain syndromes, hypermobility, chronic fatigue and ‘brain fog’.
Nick is also a published author in 6 languages and has been in practice for 30 years.
He is currently doing research on Hypermobility (under the heading of ‘Bendy bodies Bendy brains’) and its links to ADHD and anxiety disorders, and recently convened a working group to link the related specialities and neuroscience.
He is privileged to sit on 3 weekly multi-disciplinary orthopaedic and spinal meetings
He is a consultant on a multi-disciplinary team in addiction recovery medicine to HARBOR Health, specialising in treating patients from all over the world with complex health and addiction problems.
Nick is the on-call osteopath to several theatre and film production companies.
Having to cut short his medical training after four years due to a spinal injury, Nick qualified in 1993 from the British School of Osteopathy. He wrote his thesis on innate elements of athleticism in black athletes, in conjunction with the Chicago College of Osteopathic medicine, Midwestern University.
He has a diploma in medical acupuncture.
He is a member of the Royal Society of Medicine
He has the IRMER certification from the Instiute of Medical Physics in radiology.
Nick splits his clinical time with consulting in his health, well-being, and performance role at Brevan Howard, utilising his background in sports performance – Formula 1, Elite rugby, Golf (Seve Ballesteros), Tennis and UK athletics 400m. He has spent 15 years studying the nature and effects of stress on decision-making and risk aversion, and their relevance in financial markets and trading, as well as formulating strategies to combat those effects. Through his links with Brevan Howard he has worked with John Coats (‘The Hour between Dog and Wolf’) and Dr. Danny Kahneman (‘Thinking Fast and Slow’) to study stress responses, universal to us all and which are independent of personality type.
In the late 90s, Nick trained with Dr John Sarno in New York in ‘Tension Myositis syndrome’ and was lucky enough to study with Dr Konstantin Buteyko at The Hale Clinic in London,whose respiratory and breathing techniques are now world renowned. From this he developed his passion for the understanding of breathing pattern disorders, as well as their effects on internal brain and body states and their manifestation in the musculo-skeletal system.
In the early 2000s, Nick worked in Paris with Alain Prost’s team doctor for The Institut Biomedical Sports et Vie, conducting intensive assessments of F1 drivers and their environments, going on to be Human Performance Advisor to Jaguar (Eddie Irvine and Mark Webber). From the findings they made, particularly in sleep and stress medicine, the concept of the ‘Corporate Athlete’ was formulated, which Nick presented at Insead Business School. After raising £10m of investment, this went onto to become a human performance centre, ‘VieLife’, in the city in London.
He also worked with the Western Australian Institute of Sport to build a digitally based multiple parameter tracking system for athletes, taking particular interest in Heart Rate
To support a high-quality experience, active participation will be limited to a smaller group.
- A £5 donation ticket to the charity to guarantee a place and actively participate
- Free access — available for those who wish to observe and enjoy the atmosphere from the wider space
- Please arrive 10 - 15 mins prior to the start time so you can settle into your space comfortably time wise.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Manchester Square, 9 Manchester Square, London, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00 to GBP 6.13
