The Teacher

Teacher Information

Gio Maschio

Our Director and most experienced teacher is Gio Maschio, who has been teaching the Internal Arts for over 11 years, and has been practicing them and related subjects for over 18 years. He is head Internal Arts tutor to the College of Integrated Chinese Medicine, the UK’s largest college of Chinese medicine, has conducted seminars for the British Acupuncture Council, and is one of Master B.K. Frantzis’ most experienced instructors in Europe, certified to teach a wide range of the Internal Arts. He cross-trains in Buddhism and the Dzogchen tradition of meditation. He is also a tutor to the Oxford School of Massage, teaches and practices Internal Arts full-time, has a Masters in Philosophy, speaks three languages and enjoys music.

Luke Wilcox

Luke graduated from Magdalen College Oxford in 2005 having read music. He has been studying the Internal Arts for 5 years with Gio and attended workshops with Master B.K. Frantzis, as well as cross training with other well known teachers and has taught martial arts professionally. He has completed a detailed one year teacher training program with Gio and also teaches Internal Arts at the College of Integrated Chinese Medicine. He is much appreciated for his patience and intelligence by our students at Oxford Internal Arts, and also teaches classes in Reading.

Ben Cox

Ben is a qualified Chinese medical herbalist, acupuncturist and tui na masseur, has practiced T’ai Chi, Qigong & Meditation for 8 years with various well known teachers, and has been studying with Gio and B.K. Frantzis since late 2004. He too has completed a detailed one year teacher training program with Gio, and teaches Internal Arts at the College of Integrated Chinese Medicine. Ben’s other interests include anthropology, philosophy, classical Chinese & ecology, and our students greatly appreciate him for the depth and detail of his knowledge, and the care he brings to teaching.

Greg Webster

Greg has been studying the Internal Arts “total immersion style” with Gio for nearly 5 years, including all the Foundation Practices, T’ai Chi, Advanced Qigong, and Taoist Meditation, and has attended workshops with BK Frantzis. He has completed a detailed one year teacher training program with Gio. Greg was previously an active musician over a period of many years, has a keen interest in both Taoist and Buddhist philosophy, and now works in Woodstock developing new medical devices. Greg brings a wealth of personal experience and people skills to our classes, as well as a relaxed and unflappable manner.

About The Material Taught

The material taught at Oxford Internal Arts derives from the teachings of Internal Arts master B.K. Frantzis.

Mr. Frantzis is well known in the West and in China both for his genuine mastery of the material (he is one of the very few, if not the only, Westerner regarded as a master of T’ai Chi in China) and for his ability and desire to communicate it to students very clearly and in its complete form, free of cultural and translational trappings.

Not only this, but over and above Frantzis being a lineage holder in T’ai Chi, he is a lineage holder in Taoism. Taoism is the origin of T’ai Chi’s internal knowledge of the body’s physical systems and energy, but Taoism is also very much concerned with how this relates to emotions, thinking, intuition and the complete range of human abilities, and how to balance these to benefit both the individual and the world around him or her.

All this enables an individual to approach important physical and energetic aspects of themselves through a complete range of techniques, without having to second-guess for the lack or opacity of the information. And it also enables an individual to approach the rest of their being with clarity, and develop themselves in a safe, fully integrated and balanced way, with a clear sense of how and why the techniques learned will help them.