World Tai Chi and Qigong Day 2009 Photos
On, Saturday, April 25, a total of 20 people came to celebrate World Tai Chi and Qigong Day with me. We gathered and developed a lot of energy together.
"Riding the Waves", rising arms
Archive for April, 2009
Teaching in Palm Springs
Teaching in Palm Desert
On my recent trip to Palm Springs (How I craved some warmth and sun) I taught a two-hour workshop on Five Flows Qigong. My friend and colleague Robert Haberkorn, DC, MMQ was kind enough to arrange and host the workshop at his office in the town of Palm Desert. Eight people including Robert were in the workshop. Read the rest of this entry »
100 Day Discipline
There is a famous (in China) Wild Goose Qigong form called the First 64. It takes 5 to 6 minutes to go through this long form-not much time out of any given day. I wanted to practice it everyday to deepen my connection to it, memorize it my muscles and bones, and refine my performance of it. I also wanted the benefits that comes with practicing it- the flexibility, back strength, thigh strength, energization, etc., etc.
Commit to Qigong
I decided to commit to a daily practice for 100 days. This is called a 100-day discipline. It is astonishing how difficult it can be to just do something everyday. Read the rest of this entry »
Change Your Life in 2 minutes a Day
Yesterday, in the “8-Pulling Waist” Qigong workshop, the topic of practicing came up. It almost always does come up, and should. Qigong, for all it’s barrels-full of benefits, isn’t much good to you if you don’t practice. Over and over I have heard from students how difficult it is for them to keep up a practice, despite their initial enthusiasms.
Practice is the First Principle
The first principle of qigong, as I see it, is to practice. More fully, the principle is: Read the rest of this entry »
A Simple Explanation of Qigong
Train Your Body to Work Better
Qigong is a strange-sounding, oddly pronounced word that simply means training your body to work better. Qigong trains you to be natural, at ease and empowered in your own body. Qigong trains your body to work better from the inside out. This happens not through some mystical process, but by natural means. By incrementally improving how you move, stand, breathe, and think, you change how your body works for the better. A lot better.
Release and Refresh
For instance, by learning how to put or allow just a little bit more distance between your bones, you create more space in your joints. This is like opening doors and windows in Read the rest of this entry »