If everything is a microcosm of everything else, then when doing tai chi or qigong we need to pay attention to the inter-connectivity of ...

When you first start learning either tai chi or qigong, it's all about learning a set of movements.  For some people, it never goes beyond..

It’s impossible to jump off the floor without first of all bending your knees and sinking into the ground. The implication of this is that

Working with a partner, you held a tai chi posture, and your partner would push against you; I seem to remember that it was a bit hit and ..

I come across a large percentage of people who suffer from cold hands and/or cold feet.  This doesn’t seem to be restricted to any age group

We could describe an ‘unpleasant event’ as something that happens to us that we perceive that we don’t want. There are many correlations ...

The action is therefore like a wave passing down through the major joints of the arm, one after the other; a transference of energy from one

When pushing or pulling an object, we usually tighten muscles automatically. If you want to push something heavy, you compress, If you want

This has a major impact on the way in which we do not only Tai Chi or Qigong but any sport or activity that involves movement. In whatever..

When we walk, we need to create 'full' and 'empty' in the legs.  Most of the time we do it without thinking; it just happens...

One of the first things that beginners can feel is aching legs; they discover that their legs are weaker than they thought. ...

Use your back. The arms need to connect to the body; the action is not one where only the shoulder muscles function.

In the same way that the body of the plant does this, we, as humans, need to mimic the same actions with our bodies in order to achieve ...

'Listening' is the art of feeling, so you know how to act. Listening is pulling up a weed in your garden; it is sensing, beyond the point at

Strictly speaking, and depending upon your interpretation of ‘relax’, it’s a bit of a contradiction. If you relax your arm, it will fall...

How do you 'convert' one movement to another in Tai Chi or Qigong? Perhaps, if I can understand these changes, for example, when the body...

I guess that most people don’t practise the exercises.  For the majority it’s enough to come to a class once a week, and have a reminder...

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

There are many reasons for stress.  What stresses one person might to another be a positive drive to action. You would possibly think that..

You might think that relaxation is the same thing as de-stressing,  but there’s a difference.  De-stressing can use a variety of techniques