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The UK is facing a “tsunami” of joint pain with an aging population and the numbers of arthritis cases expected to soar, a leading expert has warned. Arthritis cases are expected to double by 2030, Arthritis Care (a charity) has …

Practising Tai Chi can boost elderly people’s hearts, according to researchers from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the University of Illinois.  The research was funded by the University of Illinois. Tai Chi is now hugely popular in the UK …

One of the biggest problems that affect the world today is lack of energy – the feeling where you just cannot get up and go. If it’s the weekend, that is not such a big problem, but if you have …

I think every Tai Chi book you will ever read says the same thing, it is best to train outside first thing in the morning. The only trouble is that all the authors seem to want to follow each other …

If you write a blog I am sure you know how hard it can be creating fresh new blogs without any feedback from your readers. Luckily, that is not the case with my lovely readers, who helpfully ask lots of …

We have had a very good question from one of our students, Nick who has just started attending the advanced class. I believe they (Tai Chi and Qigong) must be different otherwise surely only Qigong would exist as it is …

Qigong (Chi Kung) has literally thousands of forms, from many places around South East Asia. Many of those forms of Qigong are excellent at creating good health, great energy and helping to prolong your life. One of those forms of …

Research in Taiwan suggests that regular Tai Chi practise improves type 2 Diabetes. Researchers at Department of Medical Research, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Kaohsiung, Taiwan found that regular practise of Tai Chi helped improve T cell function involved with …

It’s a funny thing, you either love Christmas or hate it. At the moment I reckon it’s about 50 50, but the haters are growing every year. In days gone by, when people were less wealthy, it was special to …

When you start your Tai Chi classes it’s easy to be able to judge for yourself how you are doing i.e. remembering the order of the moves, keeping your balance, getting your hands and feet to do what you want …