Shoulder loosening – Circle Qigong: Exercise 4 Frozen shoulders? Tension in the rib area? Just try this simple exercise! This week‘s #wellnesswednesday addresses the shoulder girdle. The ribs, which build the ribcage shoulders and arms are connected through a system of muscles and sinews. Thus, tension and relaxation of the […]
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How to communicate across styles and traditions? The Chinese internal arts have a rich heritage of family styles, styles derived from monasteries and increasingly – in China as well as abroad – independent approaches, based on individual experience or scientific knowledge. So, what is true and what is real? And […]
Small is beautiful – #martialmonday 15 – press #2 A hardly discernible movement with a big effect – that is one ideal of Taijiquan. How to achieve this? Long hours of practice is the short answer. A longer answer would be: by starting big and gradually getting smaller and smaller. […]
High time to push! – Push Hands Meeting Hannover, Germany This week, our #martialmonday team is demonstrating the rules for free pushing hands at the International Push Hands Meeting in Hanover, Germany!We are celebrating our 20th anniversary this year and we are looking forward to meeting more than 100 old and new […]
#wellnesswednesday Spine Qigong Exercise 4 – Swinging self-massage A groovy spine exercise for all of you, but especially for those who felt that the third exercise of Spine Qigong was too technical. Some of you may know this exercise under the name of loosening exercises or even constant bear. Here, […]
#MartialMonday 13 – Indirect Force – Application Press Indirect force The mysterious jin energy can be translated as a practice goal: not to use raw power. This does not mean not to use all one’s strength, but to develop a second nature. This second nature uses force in a non-violent […]
Coronavirus: Disease patterns and the road towards fearlessness – #PhilosophicalFriday I am writing this, because I am worried about the consequences of misinformation concerning the coronavirus. If the truth is first victim of war, then compassion seems to be the first victim of the war against a supposedly deadly super […]
Spine Qigong exercise 3 – Warming the centre Especially when it is cold outside, we should take care that our kidneys and our lower back do not get too cold. Besides outside influences, the reason for coldness in this area may also be excessive tension in the body. In this […]
#martialmonday 12 – I’m stuck! v. I’m off then. The point of attention in pulling – application (block and) punch This week we start from another practical application of the movement pull: both hands punch. The exercise For the exercise, we need to build fists instead of the open hands […]
The Chinese character 萬 wan means many. It means a large quantity which is innumerable, because it appears to be uncountable. To do justice to these connotations in a translation, the notion ”ten thousand“ is often used. One example is the “10,000 things“ in the Daodejing, another example is the […]
Spine Qigong – exercise 2: The 6 connections Thus weeks exercise will be going a bit deeper. Tsui will show us the 6 connections. The 6 joints If we leave the spine with its single elements aside, the human body has got 6 main joints: foot joint, knee joint, hip […]
#martialmonday 11 – With my back against the wall! How should I react? Form application – pull It is fairly easy: Today, we will work on the application „pull“. The posture pull offers two alternatives: to box and to pull. We will opt for the second alternative as a foundation. […]
The two characters 玉宇（yu yu）mean Jade House. The traditional value of jade in China The Chinese admiration of jade stones goes a long way back. On the one hand, it looked great and was therefore thought as the perfect gemstone. – Jewellery, belt buckles, ornaments and buttons on clothes and […]
Spine Qigong Exercise 1 – #WellnessWednesday 8 Searching for an exercise against heavy shoulders or a stiff neck? This week, Tsui will show us an easy, but effective spine exercise Reasons for spine Qigong Our central nervous system leads from the brain all the way down the spine. The small […]
#Martialmonday – Dealing the punches or taking them? – Form application Ward off left and right In the form, the movements “Ward off left” and “Ward off right” are movements to protect oneself. More precisely, one protects one‘s space: The space between arm and body is a space that no […]
Happy New Year! 新年好 Following the Chinese calendar, January, 25th 2020 is the first day of the year of the rat. If you look at the Chinese character, it could also be named the year if the mouse – as mouse and rat share the same symbol. Perhaps, to imagine […]
Office work is your (working) life? This loosening exercise is especially useful for those who work at the desk a lot. – Often, your shoulders will tense up after some time. To prevent hardening of three muscles, neck pain or headaches, you should get up for some minutes from time […]
One of the first movements of the form may be applied as an elbow strike. In the form, the preparation move is followed by the right elbow going up and out to the back. A simple move, but there is a lot to learn from it. Here is our #MartialMonday […]
Today’s calligraphy 劍 shows a sword – or, as you may detect in the details, a two-edged, pointed blade. The sword is commonly seen as the queen of weapons. Furthermore, it also has a symbolic meaning. Like in Europe, swords as insignia of power (sometimes lended by the ruler to […]
Welcome back to #wellnesswednesday with Circle Qigong part 2! Tsui‘s exercise for today is a simple exercise to mobilise the wrists. It is especially worth trying out if you do office work – at the keyboard or the mouse – or any crafts that involve your hands moving in a […]