While slow-motion practices like tai chi and qigong help heal, strengthen and open your body, they don’t offer the added benefits of aerobic exercise.

This is where bagua classically comes into internal arts training.

• First, when walking is paired with the internal power development (neigong) techniques — that which is responsible for the health benefits associated with tai chi and qigong — you can supercharge the benefits you can get from walking in the same amount of practice time.

• Holding the set of four or eight energy postures further amplifies qi flows throughout your body, as well as in specific ways to progressively and systematically open, strengthen and unify your body, mind and qi.

• Once you have the basic down pat, if you’re able to speed up and eventually walk fast, you can take your practice to the next level by bringing in the element of aerobic exercise — the health benefits of which are well-documented across cultures around the world.

• But that’s not all. Walking in a Circle and changing directions — without stopping — creates a vortex of energy which aids your ability to contact, open up, and release stuck and bound areas in your body, mind and qi.

All students start out moving slowly, to learn and develop core techniques to open up the body from the inside, and progressively release long-term, accumulated tension and the vascular system.

With the vascular system open and cleared to some degree, even a small rise in heart rate dramatically increases blood circulation — without putting undue tension on the heart, as heavier training can do.

Participants will go through a deep process to stretch, open up, heal and strengthen their body through Walking the Circle and holding energy postures.

• Postures 1-4 - A beginner's sequence that focuses on building your strength and stamina.
  
• Postures 1-8 - A more advanced practice to release deeply bound tension and power up your system.

The combination of applying the profound neigong though Walking the Circle and holding postures gives the body, mind and qi a total workout that can be done in any medium-sized room at home without having to go to the gym!

“Paul’s teaching is amazing. He breaks down the complicated to make it easy”!

— Graham B, Osteopath

This 90-day programme is structured as follows:

Module 1
Step-by-step instructions on stepping and turning techniques, how to circle the arms while walking, and Posture Zero.

Module 2 
Step-by-step instructions on postures 1-4 and follow along to a beginning practice.

Module 3
Step-by-step instructions on postures 5-8 and follow along to the complete eight-posture practice, which you can develop over many months and years.

This programme is designed to be extremely efficient, and can be practised for many years to generate profound health benefits and energise your system — body, mind and qi.

When you sign up, you’ll also receive instant access to:

• Paul's Taoist Breathing & Meditation Series — 23 guided practices on whole-body breathing and Outer Dissolving to stream 24/7.

• Q&A Forum, where Paul answers questions 1 x week.

A personal library will be created for you at paulcavel.com, which you will be directed to after checkout. There you can stream and download MP4 videos 24/7.

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