Opening Joints & Connecting The Body
Spread the effort For example, if you are pushing a heavy object, there is an inclination to tense the shoulders and the upper arms and...
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James Drewe
- Oct 1, 2023
- 2 min
Shoulder Alignment: The Practicalities (2)
If you’ve read the blog ‘Shoulder Alignment: The Mechanics (1)’, and played around with it, and particularly if you’ve noticed that...
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James Drewe
- Oct 3, 2022
- 2 min
How Do I Relax My Neck?
What causes it? Stress Poor posture Office/desk work Text and phone neck Shoulder bags, and haversacks Repetitive actions Poor...
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James Drewe
- Jul 16, 2022
- 2 min
RELAX!! What Does That Even MEAN?
I don’t like negative instructions, but sometimes they seem to work better than a positive one. Leaving the pelvis out of it for the...
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James Drewe
- Mar 1, 2020
- 2 min
Ting (listening) in Tai Chi & Qigong.
What is ‘listening’ in tai chi & qigong? Ideally, listening is very light; it is being able to sense and respond to the gentlest of...
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James Drewe
- Jun 16, 2019
- 2 min
Stress.
Stress. There are many reasons for stress. What stresses one person might to another be a positive drive to action. And after the...
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James Drewe
- May 12, 2019
- 2 min
How on Earth do you ‘Relax’?
Relaxation v. De-stressing. You might think that relaxation is the same thing as de-stressing, but there’s a difference. De-stressing...
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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
- Aug 29, 2018
- 2 min
Qigong – is it Yoga?
One of the aspects of both yoga and qigong is to enhance your potential. If we always move in ways in which we are ‘comfortable’,...
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James Drewe
- Jun 10, 2018
- 1 min
Stress, Tai Chi, & Qigong
A brief ‘whinge’. The ‘Quiet Place’. When doing Tai Chi or Qigong, I can return to myself; it’s like finding the quiet place, where the...
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James Drewe
- Dec 11, 2016
- 2 min
Energy. Why do you need to relax?
Body Efficiency. The efficiency of the body’s movements largely depends upon how relaxed you are. Our amazing network of muscle &...
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James Drewe
- Nov 19, 2015
- 1 min
2-Person Exercises in Taiji (2) – Maintaining Your Integrity
Continuing … from the previous blog … What’s the point of 2-person work? We are taught that tai chi should be comfortable and relaxed,...
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