Turning the Head & Neck
Try turning the head the wrong way first. Lift your chin and push it slightly forwards. Now try turning your head in that position. What...
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James Drewe
- Oct 3, 2022
- 2 min
How Do I Relax My Neck?
What causes neck pain? Stress Poor posture Office/desk work Text and phone neck Shoulder bags, and haversacks Repetitive actions Poor...
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James Drewe
- Aug 9, 2022
- 3 min
Tensegrity & Tai Chi & Qigong
Noun: The property of skeleton structures that employ continuous tension members and discontinuous compression members in such a way that...
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James Drewe
- Mar 29, 2022
- 4 min
Why Tai Chi & Qigong as Exercise?
I’ve always loved both tai chi and qigong. Initially my interest was sparked by a close encounter with violence in the street, and it...
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James Drewe
- Feb 1, 2022
- 4 min
Stepping – Putting a Foot Forward
When learning tai chi and qigong, one of the first problems encountered is learning how to step correctly. Most beginners ‘fall’ into a...
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James Drewe
- Oct 31, 2019
- 5 min
Change in Taiji & Qigong
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...
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James Drewe
- Jan 26, 2019
- 2 min
Qigong – Why all the Stretching & Twisting?
Leaving aside ‘Standing’ qigong (aka Zhan Zhuang, Standing Pole, Standing Like a Tree , etc.), there are many types of Qigong which are...
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James Drewe
- Jan 9, 2019
- 2 min
Pulling up Your Undercarriage.
Feeling it. If you are unsure where it is, it’s the same muscle you use when trying to stop urination in mid-flow, as well as the one...
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James Drewe
- Dec 12, 2018
- 2 min
Pelvic Tilting and your Health.
What is a pelvic tilt? How does it affect you? Amongst other things: More flexibility in the lower (lumbar) spine. Ultimately, less...
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James Drewe
- Nov 20, 2018
- 1 min
Sinking your Boat: (4) Results.
Posture. If you constantly try to sink your boat, your posture will improve, and if you have back problems, sinking your hull will...
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James Drewe
- Nov 4, 2018
- 1 min
Sinking your Boat: (3) Practising Scuttling.
Practising. Practising the art of sinking is essential; it’s not going to happen on its own. When? The good thing is that you can...
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James Drewe
- Oct 27, 2018
- 1 min
Sinking your Boat: (2) Above the Waterline.
Above the hull is the equipment that makes the sailing boat functional – mast & boom, shrouds & sails, sheets & cleats, and a burgee if...
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James Drewe
- Oct 12, 2018
- 1 min
Sinking your Boat: (1) The Hull.
Behaving like a boat. Your body has a keel and a mast. The question is, how do you experience it? The hull & keel. CONTACTS:...
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James Drewe
- Jul 15, 2018
- 3 min
Putting Backbone Into It (Shadow Boxing)
Crown of head (not to be confused with the hair whorl) Perineum (muscle between genitals & anus) Point directly on the line between your...
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James Drewe
- May 29, 2018
- 1 min
What is a Tai Chi ‘Form’?
Is Tai Chi just a sequence of movements? In a previous blog, I mentioned something that had happened many years ago in a class: I had a...
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James Drewe
- Feb 14, 2018
- 3 min
I Can’t Remember if I’m in Pain or Not.
Memory & the “Moment”. The part of our brain that memorises events could never be said to be reliable; we remember the parts we want to...
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James Drewe
- Nov 29, 2017
- 2 min
Moving from the Centre.
The smallest movement is the strongest. Needless to say (perhaps), the hub is your centre, (your dantien, your core), the spokes are your...
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James Drewe
- Nov 19, 2017
- 2 min
I’ve Got That Sinking Feeling.
But of course this could be almost any action in which you have to lift your body – it could even be walking up one small So what’s going...
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James Drewe
- Nov 5, 2017
- 2 min
Is Standing Qigong the Same Thing as Tai Chi?
The problem with tai chi, of course, is that you’re moving, which makes it very difficult to feel those physical alignments and...
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James Drewe
- Oct 6, 2017
- 3 min
You’ve Left Your Hips Behind.
‘Natural’ movement. We don’t usually think much about the way that we move around in our everyday lives; we just do it. However, when...
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