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 ...

Your neck controls your future comfort. It’s never too late to do something about your posture, although it’s probably true to say that the

How do you position your neck? How does it sit on your body? How does it control you? How does it affect your comfort or discomfort levels?

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

If you were to lie a cartwheel on its axle and then spin it around, a point on the rim of the wheel would move yards, whereas a point on ...

If you’ve ever been at the seaside and put your foot on a raised rock, and then attempted to push yourself up using only the leg on the rock

To practise Standing Qigong is to practise what you should aim to feel in every moving tai chi posture.  What you’re intending to achieve

We don’t usually think much about the way that we move around in our everyday lives; we just do it. However, when people take up tai chi or

If you want to take a step forwards, it’s impossible to move efficiently if you still have weight on one foot, even a minute percentage.

Each of your arms weighs about 8-10lbs (roughly 3.5-4.5Kg). That’s heavy… though we don’t really notice it because either the arms are ...

Sometimes when you move in tai chi or qigong you just know you’ve got it right. You don’t need anyone to tell you, you instinctively know...

Most people who do tai chi or qigong come along to a class because they want some exercise, perhaps also to meet likeminded people, maybe...

I’m rapidly coming to the conclusion that teaching in too basic a way in order to make tai chi and qigong accessible to new students is a...

… or to put it another way, if something around me changes, I need to change as well. By and large we don’t like change, unless we consider

When you first begin tai chi and qigong, you spend most of your time trying to remember the positions of arms and legs in the various ...

Quite regularly, a beginner in tai chi or qigong is put off from continuing classes because he/she is experiencing a bit of discomfort.

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

The main point is that you keep dropping in order to step, and what most people do is to drop, then stop dropping, and then stick the foot..

Nothing much happens without intention. Creation ceases.  The driving force is lost. Our entire lives are directed by our intention; our job

I awoke with a headache a few months ago.  Still lying in bed, I tried to relax the area where I could feel the tension stemming from.