Sometimes called the grandmother of tai chi, qigong is one of the four major branches of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
I thought I understood yin and yang.
I’ve been studying the philosophy for 20 years. When I went to acupuncture college, we were constantly tested on the theories of yin and yang.
I thought I knew a thing or two. But it turns out I didn’t know squat.
On May 31st, I locked up my qigong and tai chi studio for the last time. As I returned the keys to the landlord, my eyes were not dry. For the last 9 years, the Flowing Zen Studio in Gainesville Florida has been my baby, my mission, my everything. With little more than a dream, I somehow managed to build one […]
I’ve experienced back pain so severe that it almost got me arrested. I was in my apartment in NYC, I was deeply frustrated by my pain and lack of mobility, and I let out a loud, primal scream. As crazy as things were in NYC in the 1990s, screaming was still frowned upon…
I was in my 20s, I had a serious girlfriend, and there was no way in hell that qigong was going to work for me if I had to follow that crazy sex rule.
There are some really strange rules for qigong and tai chi. My favorite is: tu tan wu du. It means, “don’t keep spitting.” True story.
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