Can Qigong Save America (and the world?)
“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...
View ArticleYang Style Taiji Class in November
My Taiji and Xin Yi teacher Bob Lau is will be teaching Yang Style Taiji (Tai chi) once a week beginning in November. Of the several major styles of Taiji, Yang style is the most well-known, with it’s...
View ArticleThree Types of Qigong Practice
Exercises Can be Done Singly, in Sets or in Patterned Sequences There are a number of ways to look at Qigong in order to understand it better, methods of breaking down aspects of it into categories. In...
View ArticleQiqong Sequences
Continuing my discussion of the Three “S”s of Qigong practice: Single Exercises, Sets and Sequences: Sequences A Qigong sequence is a series of movements put together into an artistic form. I often...
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Qigong in the Public Consciousness
Qigong is slowly making inroads on the consciousness of America. An article on one of my students was recently in the local newspaper here in Bellingham, Washington, USA, North American Continent,...
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Taiji Qigong
Taiji Movements for Health Learn Taiji Qigong (Tai Chi Chi Kung) Gentle Exercise Series with Robert Bates May and June, 2010 Come to one, two, or three classes a week for the same price! Three...
View ArticleTai Chi (aka Qigong) Decreases Pain
In August of 2010 an article was published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine citing a study of Tai Chi for the painful, baffling syndrome of Fibromyalgia. It turns out that there were...
View ArticleMaster List of Articles
Here is a List of the Principle Articles and Videos on this Qigong Website Note: These listed articles come from the Blog section of this website. There is also a section of Pages, which contains much...
View ArticleSimple Taiji (Tai chi) Form
Click here to view the embedded video.Simple Taiji is Advanced Movement Many times I have heard from people who tried to learn Taiji (Tai Chi) that the moves were too complex and the form was too long...
View ArticlePractice Right Away to Remember
Learning new ways to move is fun and satisfying. In Qigong and Taiji learning new movements is a constant part of the training. I have found that many students have difficulty with remembering the...
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Balancing Tai Chi
For older people falling is one of the more frequent causes of trauma. Tai Chi (Taiji) is a classical Chinese movement method for being more stable in your body (and emotions, mind, and spirit). In its...
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