When pushed, you have a choice: 1) Do you allow the energy of that push to meet its target (in this case probably the point on your spine that is level with the arms of the person pushing)? 2) Do you redirect that energy to where YOU want it to go? If the latter, then how do you do it?

Everything is energy Everything is Energy. There is nothing other than energy, and it vibrates at different rates to form different shapes, but whatever shape it creates, it is still energy. A stone will vibrate slower than anything mobile, and the rate of vibration in mobile objects will be determined by its state of consciousness. Every part of us consists of energy vibrating at different rates; the bones will be slower than the skin, the skin will be slower than the body

The author reflects on their experience with illness recovery while teaching Tai Chi and Qigong. They find that continuous practice during teaching terms helps shorten recovery time from minor ailments, contrasting with longer recovery during breaks. They emphasize the holistic benefits of these practices for overall health and functional efficiency of the body.

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...