​Tai Chi and Qigong in London and Kent

I’ve learnt a lot about recovery from illness in the last 12 months. I realise now how difficult it can be, and in particular how easily...

Who is Moving? Most of us think of ourselves ‘travelling through time’ – we start the day, the sun has risen; we finish the day, the sun...

When learning tai chi and qigong, one of the first problems encountered is learning how to step correctly. Most beginners ‘fall’ into a...

Over the last year, following a bereavement in Autumn 2020, I learnt what you might call a technique that I thought was very relevant to...

TAI CHI & QIGONG LIVE ZOOM SESSIONS. There are 6 sessions a week: 11.00am (Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, & Saturday) 4.00pm (Tuesday, &...

Topical. If you’re interested, I have put a number of articles on to the tai chi website here which discuss those benefits, particularly...

Every move in tai chi has a 3-dimensional aspect, although sometimes it’s not obvious. The legs: Cloud Hands is performed with bent legs....

Connecting movements in tai chi & qigong. Sitting back. Moving your energy. Try jumping! This is easily tested: Try jumping off the...

What is ‘listening’ in tai chi & qigong? Ideally, listening is very light; it is being able to sense and respond to the gentlest of...

Is it possible to relax and still hold up your arm? Strictly speaking, and depending upon your interpretation of ‘relax’, it’s a bit of...

Going with the ups & the downs. How do you ‘convert’ one movement to another in Tai Chi or Qigong? Perhaps, if I can understand these...

Who practises? Your ‘norm’. By this I mean the way that you usually make your body move, sit, stand, function.  This is the way that...

Revolving doors work because they have perfect central equilibrium, and therefore use minimum energy. In movement, we are aiming, as far...

Speaking. When speaking, you speak in phrases. If you take a phrase like, “Don’t you know what I want?”, by putting the stress on...

Stress. There are many reasons for stress.  What stresses one person might to another be a positive drive to action. And after the...

Relaxation v. De-stressing. You might think that relaxation is the same thing as de-stressing,  but there’s a difference.  De-stressing...

Further to the previous blog… “Song Yao” = Release the waist (see previous blog on ‘Song’). “Kai Kua” = Open the Kua, or inguinal...

The mechanics. When you sit down on to a chair, you automatically, and without forcing it, do a pelvic tilt.  If you don’t, you run the...

Walking & ‘Open/Close’. If you picture your body as a mobile vertical line, what allows you to be mobile is your ability to split that...

Copying movements. When seeing Tai Chi or Qigong for the first time, it appears that all those graceful movements are the result of...