Your balance should improve as you lower your centre of gravity.  This applies to all ages, sizes, and heights, but in particular to older..

Practising the art of sinking is essential; it’s not going to happen on its own. The good thing is that you can practise it all the time...

Above the waterline is the equipment that makes the sailing boat functional – mast & boom, shrouds & sails, sheets & cleats, and a burgee...

Your body has a keel and a mast.  The question is, how do you experience it? This is your pelvis and your legs.  When a boat sits in water,

The Spinal Line. 1. Crown of head (not to be confused with the hair whorl) 2. Perineum 3. Point between the feet...

When practicing taiji and qigong, we are often conscious of the forwards/backwards and the left/right of the movements, but it’s easy to for

I mentioned something that had happened many years ago in a class: I had a student who, through my own inexperience of teaching, learnt the

If you were to lie a cartwheel on its axle and then spin it around, a point on the rim of the wheel would move yards, whereas a point on ...

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

To practise Standing Qigong is to practise what you should aim to feel in every moving tai chi posture.  What you’re intending to achieve

We don’t usually think much about the way that we move around in our everyday lives; we just do it. However, when people take up tai chi or

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.

I had a problem in a class recently. Someone stopped ‘feeling’ and began ‘doing his moves’. We were doing some partner work, and one of ...

… 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 ...

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..

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 ...