Knee pain is quite common, so which chi kung/qigong exercises are best for overcoming it? Let’s start by saying that knee pain is often a result of problems with the Kidneys (from a TCM point of view). So any of the qigong exercises that are known to specifically work on the kidney meridian would be [...]
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Lie #3 – You Can Learn Chi Kung From A Book As the author of the most comprehensive book on the Shaolin 18 Lohan Hands in the English language I have to say ‘No, you cannot learn chi kung from a book’. I was so proud when I wrote my book ‘Shaolin Chi Kung – [...]
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Lie Number 2 – Practicing Chi Kung/Qigong Exercises Gives You Magical Powers This is a post I’ve wanted to write for a while. But it’s not as black and white as you might think. Granted, I’ve only practiced chi kung with 2 schools over the last 15 years or so, but I cannot say that [...]
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Chi Kung Lie #1 – The more chi kung/qigong exercises I know then the better at chi kung I am. Wow, don’t those Youtube video thumbnails just keep getting better and better! Okay, quick head count: 18 Lohan Hands 18 Shaolin Exercises 12 Sinew Metamorphosis 12 Zhan Zhuang (with and without hand forms) 10 misc. [...]
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Today I’d like to give an overview of a series of 7 posts I plan to make, that I’ve called ‘The 7 Lies of Chi Kung‘. I love reading and over the last decade of being a practitioner of chi kung/qigong exercises, I’ve read a lot of books on chi kung. I’ve also read a [...]
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Qigong Exercises To Overcome Indigestion No, I don’t mean the best chi kung/qigong exercises to give you indigestion, but to get rid of digestion, but that would have made the title even longer! I am lucky that my wife is a wonderful cook, and loves to cook and I love to eat. It’s a match [...]
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Don’t believe the Hype!! There’s been a lot of rubbish written about the power of qigong/chi kung. Qigong secret #7 on my qigong dvd explores this in more detail. I first started practicing qigong exercises in 95, they formed the ‘warm up’ for a Tai Chi ‘dance’ class I took. I became intrigued as to [...]
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Today I’d like to take a quick look at a group of chi kung / qigong exercises, familiar with most ‘internal’ martial artists called Zhan Zhuang. This type of qigong exercises are also known as Stance Training and the two most popular stances are Horse Riding and 3 Circles. Virtually every ‘internal’ school of martial [...]
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Qigong’s Major Flaws I truly believe that chi kung, practiced as chi kung and not chi kung form, is more powerful and gives better physical, emotional, mental and spiritual results than Yoga, Tai Chi and Reiki – combined! Of course that’s just my opinion based on my personal experience, so there’s no need for us [...]
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Finding It Hard To Maintain Your Chi Kung Practice? A big thanks to Joan for asking a question on how to overcome the trouble she was having setting up a regular chi kung/qigong practice session. I decided to write an article on it, and here it is: Many practitioners of chi kung/qigong exercises have difficulty [...]
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