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

There are many positions In which to do Standing Qigong, but I’ll use the one with feet a shoulder’s width apart, knees bent, and hands ...

In fact it’s the act of not-doing… definitely a verbal contradiction. I spent many years thinking that ‘sinking your qi’ was something that

The efficiency of the body’s movements largely depends upon how relaxed you are. Our amazing network of muscle & tendon, of artery & vein...

You breathe (hopefully).  Maybe you breathe efficiently, maybe you don’t, but in order to live you obviously need both an ‘in’ and an ‘out’

Energy is flow; without flow there is no energy.  A shortage of energy is therefore partly about a lack of flow … i.e. partial stagnation.

In the majority of my classes I teach some qigong as a warm-up. I do this for a number of reasons:- 1. to introduce the various different...

Partner-work explains the differing uses of the torso and limbs – i.e. the ‘units’ of attack/defence: 1) the body, 2) the shoulders, 3) the

What’s the point of 2-person taiji work? 1) To understand our own stability is obvious when we’re standing on one leg, it’s simply a case of

Tai chi is about change and adaptability; this is not obvious when doing solo tai chi, but when you work with a partner, you become very ...

We are taught that tai chi should be comfortable and relaxed, but when we do tai chi alone, our preconceptions of what it feels like to ...

Two-person exercises cause a problem for many tai chi practitioners. Some don’t like touching other people, some get frustrated because the

Balancing the body When performing tai chi and qigong, you need to organise your body so that it feels as though all aspects of the body...

‘The word Peng’ (pron. ‘pung’ as in ‘sprung’) is used in a general way to explain the feeling of expansion/protection of the body as though

In order to be able to move with ease, it is necessary to relax just prior to the movement. Ideally you are looking for body movement to ...

When you are standing with one leg in front of you and the other behind (i.e. in an Empty stance) and, using only your chest, you push somet

When bringing the rear foot forward, it shouldn’t lift up as though stepping over an object – this raises the energy. Similarly, when the...