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

This has a major impact on the way in which we do not only Tai Chi or Qigong but any sport or activity that involves movement. In whatever..

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. ...

If you picture your body as a mobile vertical line, what allows you to mobile is your ability to split that line at the base - in other ...

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

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

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.

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..

From a standing position: 1) Suck in your abdominal muscles, (thereby connecting the upper thigh to the torso). 2) When you can, draw...

I’ve often noticed when teaching the Yang 24 that balance in certain movements often causes a problem for students – incidentally, this isn’