In Tai Chi & in Qigong, we are always moving forward, backward, left and right. If you can understand the differences and similarities between 'ordinary' walking, and Tai Chi & Qigong walking, it makes learning those arts easier. How you step one pace forward when walking. You place (e.g.) the right heel and move the weight forward towards the ball of the right big toe. As the weight transfers forwards on to the ball of the right foot, the body elongates on a vertical axis.

As I’m sure you know, there are several methods of breathing. If you type ‘breathing methods’ into your search engine, you’ll discover them

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… 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

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...