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

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?

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

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.

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...

… 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

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..

Tai chi is about change and adaptability; this is not obvious when doing solo tai chi, but when you work with a partner, you become very ...

We are taught that tai chi should be comfortable and relaxed, but when we do tai chi alone, our preconceptions of what it feels like to ...

Two-person exercises cause a problem for many tai chi practitioners. Some don’t like touching other people, some get frustrated because the

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...

Sinking to Move (1) was about sinking the qi from the waist downwards. Sinking to Move (2) is about connecting the upper body to the lower

Often in both tai chi and qigong it is necessary to ‘grip the floor’ – part of rooting and making the body more stable. This is particularl

‘Balance’ in taiji One of the aspect of taiji is to allow ‘freedom of movement’, so that the body never inhibits itself. ‘Freedom of move...