When Students use Qigong as a Magic Amulet!

When Students use Qigong as a Magic Amulet!

It often comes round through conversations with students that they use Qigong as a magic amulet! The conversation goes like this..“I love my Qigong.. I still take all my medication, but I’m sure my qigong is really helping too..”Those of you who have studied with me...
Blind Faith and Modern Life

Blind Faith and Modern Life

It’s going to take utter faith and determination to get through this!(It doesn’t matter what this “This” actually is!) How do we “get through” anything? It often seems that if we can just get through the next few days/weeks/year, that things will be better.It’s about...
Depersonalisation

Depersonalisation

As the old joke goes, when you finally declare that “you are god!” – in the Western world the men in white coats start to take out their straight-jackets, when you say this in the East, people will say to you “So glad you finally got it!” When one’s entire being is...
Consciousness and Information

Consciousness and Information

“As above, so below” goes the old Chinese adage We see the holistic idea of the Microcosms embedded inside the Macrocosmic. But what exactly is Consciousness, and how does it relate to the Universe?What’s meant by the term Information? In Zhineng Qigong’s “Hun Yuan...
Is Zoom killing the Real World Experience?

Is Zoom killing the Real World Experience?

When the pandemic arrived, as a teacher of the ancient Chinese movement form Qigong, I worried that I’d never see my students again. Zoom came to my rescue. I was thrilled to discover that I was now teaching students from New Zealand and New York along with UK...