This post is the last in the series on energetic cross-training. In the first post, we focused on how yoga and mediation are intimately linked. In the second, we focused on how yoga and moving practices can be linked. In this post, I am going to talk about how...
How to Improve Your Tai Chi Form When I was first learning tai chi in Japan, I practiced Opening the Energy Gates of Your Body Qigong for six hours a day to improve my tai chi form. I adopted this routine on the recommendation of my teacher because one day I went to...
Qigong (chi gung, or chi kung) is a form of gentle exercise composed of movements that are repeated a number of times, often stretching the body, increasing fluid movement (blood, synovial and lymph) and building awareness of how the body moves through space. When you...
Dissolving the physical body and relaxing it is not the same thing. Often to explain this, I use the image of going from ice to water. Relaxation in the West is mostly understood as a mental or an emotional mood change. When we’re going from ice to water in Taoist...
In this archive video from over 22 years ago I talk about the health benefits of tai chi, qigong and the internal martial arts. The message has not changed over the years – although my hair has, some say for the better. Please enjoy, like and share, Bruce ...
