The concept of 'Peng' is often explained as feeling as though you are balloon being blown up, or a feeling as though you are simultaneously

If everything is a microcosm of everything else, then when doing tai chi or qigong we need to pay attention to the inter-connectivity of ...

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 ..

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

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 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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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...

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 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...

What’s the point of 2-person taiji work? 1) To understand our own stability is obvious when we’re standing on one leg, it’s simply a case of

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...