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Opening Joints & Connecting The Body
When pushing or pulling an object, we usually tighten muscles automatically. If you want to push something heavy, you compress, or ‘get ready’, or ‘gird your loins’, or ‘wind up’. In effect you tighten up, squeezing the body and limbs, and, temporarily compact yourself. If you want to pull something heavy, even though the act of pulling with your arms would theoretically pull the joints open,…
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Tensegrity & Tai Chi & Qigong
Tensegrity & Tai Chi & Qigong
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 ‘tensional integrity’ – something that holds that part of our anatomy in its shape, and also in position in relation to all our other parts. Noun: The property of skeleton structures that employ continuous tension members and discontinuous compression members…
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Putting Backbone Into It (Shadow Boxing)
Putting Backbone Into It (Shadow Boxing)
The Spinal Line.
Crown of head (not to be confused with the hair whorl)
Perineum (muscle between genitals & anus)
Point directly on the line between your 2 feet (variable if moving your weight back/forward between the feet).
The Spinal Line (when pushing an object/person). When working with someone else, or even a static object, the correctly connected line of the spine becomes even more important.
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Stepping in Tai Chi & Qigong
This blog continues the previous one in October ’25. In Tai Chi & in Qigong, we are always moving forward, backward, left and right.If you can understand the differences and similarities between ‘ordinary’ walking, and Tai Chi & Qigong walking, it makes learning those arts easier. How you step one pace forward when walking You place (e.g.) the right heel and move the weight forward towards the…
Foot, Ankle, Knee, Hip Alignment & Walking
Whether you are standing upright without moving, or when you put your foot ahead of you on the ground whilst walking, gravity settles or compresses you into the ground.As it does so, a balancing act automatically takes place in the body. In order to achieve perfect balance, whether you are standing either on both feet or on one foot, or even when you are in the process of walking, the body has…
Recovery from Illness, Tai Chi and Qigong
I might be perceiving this completely wrongly, but I’m sure that I recover quicker from illnesses (colds, coughs, stomach upsets, back problems etc.) when I’m in the middle of my teaching term compared to the breaks that I take between terms. Before I began teaching 20-25 classes a week on a regular basis, I would practise every day, getting up extra early in order to do so (I took Sundays…
Speeding & Tai Chi
I recently attended a speed awareness course (doing 36 instead of 30), and there were several interesting points that came up which very much relate to the process of both teaching and learning tai chi and qigong. Starting Tai Chi & Qigong When beginners phone me, some of them ask, “How long will it take me to learn it?”. I have to admit that I feel a bit of an internal sigh when that happens –…
Dealing with Life's Problems and Tai Chi
or Retraining the Sympathetic Nervous System “Often, when we encounter challenges or tough situations, our initial reaction is to respond with worry or negative thoughts. This internal turmoil can make it seem like we’re addressing the issue, but in reality, it hinders our ability to effectively manage the situation, leading to frequent setbacks.The key to overcoming obstacles lies in first…
