… 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.

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’

In both in taiji and in qigong there is often the need to raise the knee, either to kick, or perhaps as an exercise for the pelvis, or ...

How do you get your pelvis to tilt? I’ve found that for most people, it’s very difficult to move the pelvis (other than turning it to ...

Don’t think about it…  Try lifting your arm sideways. Almost everyone will involve both the shoulder & neck.  Alexander Technique calls ...

Whilst teaching, I’ve noticed that people do a number of unusual things when turning their heads. Some tilt one ear nearer the shoulder ...

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...

From a standing position: 1) Suck in your abdominal muscles, (thereby connecting the upper thigh to the torso). 2) When you can, draw...

Focus of the eyes. The eyes signify the intention (Yi) of a movement.  During the postures, focus wherever your intention is; the eyes ...

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...

I don’t expect people to practise the material we cover in the classes, but when they do, it’s a huge bonus. When they practise, progression

I first started teaching tai chi & qigong in about 1990.  Back then, not so many people knew what tai chi was, and even fewer knew anything

I’ve often noticed when teaching the Yang 24 that balance in certain movements often causes a problem for students – incidentally, this isn’