When people ask me what Chi Kung/Qigong is, I usually explain that it is a way of deliberately working with the bodies vital energy to promote health, vitality, longevity and happiness. If they’re still interested I’ll show that Chi Kung is usually characterised by slow, graceful movements, co-ordinated with the breathing and performed in what [...]
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Funny Chi Kung Question – 1072 words = approx 5 minutes to read… Can qigong be used to overcome emotional, mental and spiritual problems? Or does it just work on the physical? It’s not often that a question makes me do a double take. But this one surely did. I thought everybody knew [...]
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Bonus ‘Common’ Beginners Mistake Just quickly here’s another common beginners mistakes I’d like to shed light on. Always wanting to learn new forms – My chi kung teacher, teaches about 7 different chi kung courses. I’ve taken the most ‘basic’ one at least 10 times. Why? Because it helped me to really master the fundamental [...]
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At last they are here! To get your hands on one (or two or three) please visit this page for full details: http://qigong15.com/poster.html This poster has the following features: Each Qigong Exercise has its full name, a beautiful Chinese Calligraphy translation and its Chinese name included The ‘signature’ shot of each qigong exercise from the [...]
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Chi Kung/Qigong mistake #7 commonly made by beginners in chi kung is learning only from books and videos. For a chi kung/qigong instructor who is an author of a book on Shaolin Chi Kung, and creator of an online, video based home study course – this might sound like a strange subject for me to [...]
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Chi Kung Competition This is probably my most favourite post to date. It’s post number 94 on the qigong15 blog. I made my first blog post: Flu Seasons Coming And Some Bug Is Gonna Getcha! on 17th November 2009. So that’s an average of 2.7 posts per week. Not bad. To be honest I thought [...]
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Number of words: 446. Time to read 2 minutes… Giving up too soon is a common mistake beginners make in many areas, but I see this very often in chi kung. I believe many people have unrealistic expectations based on much of the misleading ‘hype’ surrounding the information available on chi kung. Let’s get it [...]
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No. of words: 748 Time To Read: 3mins 30 seconds Chi Kung mistake #5 – not setting clear aims and objectives for your practice… “Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy and stupid. Those things are what happen when you don’t have a plan!” – Larry Winget Or, “The starting point [...]
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901 words – it’ll take you about 4 minutes to read… Common Mistake in Chi Kung/Qigong #4 – Bringing a round peg to a square hole… This is one common mistake that drives me mad. When students bring their western concepts of what exercise should be to chi kung. I can spot it a mile [...]
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A big mistake that beginners make with chi kung/qigong is not following instructions. A classic example I see all the time when teaching is this one: Me: Don’t do anything, just watch me as I perform Shooting Arrows Left Right Two or Three people in the class ignore what I’ve just said and start to [...]
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