Whether you are standing upright without moving, or when you put your foot ahead of you on the ground whilst walking, gravity settles or compresses you into the ground. As it does so, a balancing act automatically takes place in the body. In order to achieve perfect balance, whether you are standing either on both feet or on one foot, or even when you are in the process of walking, the body has to align itself vertically with the point of pressure on the feet/foot.

When you first start learning either tai chi or qigong, it's all about learning a set of movements.  For some people, it never goes beyond..

Working with a partner, you held a tai chi posture, and your partner would push against you; I seem to remember that it was a bit hit and ..

I come across a large percentage of people who suffer from cold hands and/or cold feet.  This doesn’t seem to be restricted to any age group

When pushing or pulling an object, we usually tighten muscles automatically. If you want to push something heavy, you compress, If you want

Following  the previous blog, a question was posted about it: “… How does Song relate to the other thing which is said regularly, that...

Some can, some sometimes can, and some find it almost impossible. Why can some people balance and others not? According to The Harvard ...

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

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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 ...

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