Category Archives: staying well

Taiji, Qigong, and Immunity

Posted on May 5, 2020 by

In today’s Washington Post Health & Science section there is an article titled “Science tackles how immunities decline with age.”  The issue that prompts the article is, of course, the corona virus, and its particularly strong impact on older adults.  … Continue reading →

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Start Preparing Now for Fall and the Cold and Flu Season

Posted on August 8, 2018 by

Ever wonder why we mark the start of summer on the longest day of the year (the summer solstice), and the next day the days start already to get shorter? In Qigong and Chinese medicine, we mark the seasons differently. … Continue reading →

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Don’t outsource your emotional center

Posted on May 25, 2018 by

One of the principles of the Taoist Qigong exercises Six Healing Sounds and Inner Smile that we started in our Wednesday evening Qigong classes two weeks ago is that persons should accept responsibility for their own emotional state. Whatever the … Continue reading →

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What is Qigong (Chi Gong)?

Posted on April 11, 2018 by

World Tai Chi and Qigong Day will be celebrated on Saturday April 28 with events world wide beginning at 10 AM in each time zone. Here in Herndon, VA, Qi Elements Center for Taijiquan and Qigong will have an open … Continue reading →

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Protecting and Nurturing the Spirit (continued)

Posted on October 19, 2017 by

Root and center are the keys to our physical stability. In Taijiquan we train to strengthen our root and refine our center. Root is our connection to the earth. Center is the area of the body that when a strong … Continue reading →

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Staying Healthy

Posted on January 7, 2016 by

Rats!  I caught a sore throat over the holiday break.  I don’t regard it as normal to get sick, and if you accept the principle that you are responsible for your own health, as I do, then if you get … Continue reading →

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Prevention vs. treatment

Posted on October 10, 2015 by

Every October, breast cancer awareness month, I am reminded that the American approach to illness is still heavily biased toward an attitude that goes something like this: “first I have the bad luck to get sick, then I go to … Continue reading →

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