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

Over the last year, following a bereavement in Autumn 2020, I learnt what you might call a technique that I thought was very relevant to...

Revolving doors work because they have perfect central equilibrium, and therefore use minimum energy. Gravity settles them into their...

Walking & ‘Open/Close’. If you picture your body as a mobile vertical line, what allows you to be mobile is your ability to split that...

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

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

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

Behaving like a boat. Your body has a keel and a mast.  The question is, how do you experience it? The hull & keel. This is your pelvis...

From head to foot. When practicing taiji and qigong, we are often conscious of the forwards/backwards and the left/right of the...

Balance. “An even distribution of weight enabling someone or something to remain upright and steady”. Some can, some sometimes can, and...

The Position. There are many positions In which to do Standing Qigong, but I’ll use the one with feet a shoulder’s width apart, knees...

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...

How is it at the moment? How do you position your neck? How does it sit on your body? How does it control you? How does it affect...

Feeling that sinking feeling. If you’ve ever been at the seaside and put your foot on a raised rock, and then attempted to push yourself...

The art of effortless movement. If you want to take a step forwards, it’s impossible to move efficiently if you still have weight on one...

When it feels right. 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,...

Continuing … the next point from Blog 1 … What’s the point of 2-person work? To understand our own stability is obvious when we’re...

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

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...

I first started teaching tai chi & qigong in about 1990.  Back then, not so many people knew what tai chi was, and even fewer knew...