7 Mistakes

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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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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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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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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