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...

I know a lot of people who, when they hurt themselves, just wait for the problem to get better.  Sometimes this will work, but often it sets

I used to think that the art of learning deportment was a bit of a joke, something to do with being upright in society as well as being upri

The action is therefore like a wave passing down through the major joints of the arm, one after the other; a transference of energy from one

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

When we walk, we need to create 'full' and 'empty' in the legs.  Most of the time we do it without thinking; it just happens...

One of the first things that beginners can feel is aching legs; they discover that their legs are weaker than they thought. ...

Use your back. The arms need to connect to the body; the action is not one where only the shoulder muscles function.

I know that we can take our arms behind our backs, but, by and large, we use the arms in front of our bodies in nearly everything we do as..

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 ...

You often hear the expression that you should stand in both tai chi and qigong as though you are 'suspended by a silk thread'. This is ...

In the same way that the body of the plant does this, we, as humans, need to mimic the same actions with our bodies in order to achieve ...

Shoulder tension is often a problem for people when learning Tai Chi or Qigong; in fact, it’s probably a problem for everybody, whether they

When your head turns, the 7 Cervical Vertebrae in your neck function in a similar way to the spine at your waist. Both have a natural curve

For many people, tension in the neck must be a major cause of so much daily discomfort, this part of the body being one of the major holding

We are held together by this concept.  Every part of us, whether it be a finger, an arm, a leg, a hair, an organ, or the torso, has its own

I have a number of ways of trying to explain relaxing, but all of those ways come down to... "Stop holding on to ..." (whichever part it is)

If you really managed to let go of your muscles, it will be the combination of all the relevant muscles supported by the various fascial ...

Is it possible to relax and still hold up your arm? Strictly speaking, and depending upon your interpretation of ‘relax’, it’s a bit of...

Relaxation v. De-stressing. You might think that relaxation is the same thing as de-stressing,  but there’s a difference.  De-stressing...