Gentle Exercises for Optimal Health

“By a wide margin, the biggest threat to our nation’s balance sheet is the skyrocketing cost of health care.”
President Barack Obama, March 2009 (reported in The New Yorker, “The Cost Conundrum”, June 1, 2009)

The World’s Population is Getting Older

An article from the Associated Press on June 23, 2009 states that the population of over-65 people in the world will triple by 2050. The estimate is that there will be over one and a half billion people 65 years old and older.
By 2030, 20 percent of people in the U. S. A. will be over 65.

How can we get people to be 65 yet younger? Read the rest of this entry »

Qigong in the Gardens in July

Every summer for the past several years I have offered free Qigong classes. The first year I held them in Whatcom Falls Park in Bellingham. That was good, but I found it too busy and loud there by the road. And there were some crows that kept throwing down fir cones on our heads from the trees above us. Weird.

Since then I have held the free classes in my front yard amidst the natural scenery and festooned beauty of our gardens.

Axton Gardens

It is time again for the free summer classes. Qigong is such a powerful, yet approachable practice I want anyone interested to come and give it a try!

I envision a day when tens of millions of Americans are using the accessible exercises of Qigong and related arts as a primary part of their healthcare and life empowerment practices.

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Wall Sitting

Wall sitting is one of those great exercises that brings multiples benefits. Wall sitting is primary prescribed as a homework exercise for people who need to strengthen their legs, yet cannot exercise much because of knee pain. This might be a chronic issue, like an arthritis, or it can be from an injury. Wall sitting can help strengthen, heal and align the ankles and hip joints as well. Read the rest of this entry »

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 »