By Paul Cavel Breathing is one of the most direct and simple ways to gain access to your internal landscape, and encourage a calm, relaxed state in body and mind. The ability to breathe well can dramatically affect your health and well-being—not just because you do it all day, but also beca...

  This is Part Three of the Water Method series with Mir Ali. Start with Part One:• What Defines Water Method Training In this third video, Mir and I drill down into the question: What is the point of training? We also discuss the training progression as you develop skill with fundamental neig...

  By TTCS Senior Instructor Jackie Smith When I first saw titles like this one, I thought, “Sign me up for some of that”! Now though, I can’t even remember how long I’ve been  attempting to wrap my brain cell around the concept and training to embody these simple yet profound words. There are...

  I’m pleased to have teamed up with MysticMag to discuss physical and mental well-being in this age of anxiety, depression and chronic pain. I hope you find the post useful: click here to read.  

  This is Part Two of the Water Method series with Paul Cavel and Mir Ali. Much of the documentation on Daoism has been destroyed, but the oral tradition has been preserved with the teachings being transmitted from master to student for millennia, to us in the present day. In this video, Mir a...

  The stress and pressure of life coupled with the constant comparing of ourselves to others creates competition. Only super athletes and the highest of high-performers can operate well under these conditions. It creates a push — in the body, in the mind — which ultimately leads to a glass ceili...

  By Paul Cavel In a previous post I offered exercises for opening up the musculoskeletal frame in a coordinated fashion to create space in your body. As you begin to feel a sense of more space, you want to transition your focus from the muscles to the nerves. In order to target nerve flow, yo...

By Paul Cavel When learning any internal energy art, such as qigong, tai chi or bagua, there is a major hurdle that must be over­come to create sustainable, long-term training results: feeling instead of visual­ising. I’ve watched how this has become more and more difficult for students over t...

  By Mir Ali, LicAc, MBAcC I love qigong … so much so that I don’t think I could be a practising acupuncturist without it. Qigong helps me keep healthy, informs my diagnosis, helps my patients keep healthy, helps me treat patients! When I started learning Shaolin Kung-fu in 1991, I began pra...

By Paul Cavel Two Methods for Growing Your Life-force Energy There are two primary methods of moving energy in the body, which can be broadly classified as beginning and advanced phases. Many qigong systems are designed according to the principles of the beginning phase and remain within this...