What would happen if you were to stop busting your head and let go and trust life instead? What would happen if you were to let it flow...

This is powerful so go to it with utmost care – if in doubt, consult your doctor – kidding – can you imagine going to the doctor to ask...

I go give my mum a treatment once a week whenever I’m in England – I’ve had the privilege of helping her back to health after a bit of...

Doing tai chi is like acting out a metaphor for life in general, through slow graceful, effortless movements, emphasizing calm balance...

Reach behind you, feel for the big knob of the 7th cervical vertebra and press into the gap between it and the next one up. As you do,...

Creative thought is information coming through from a higher frequency and is, according to the Taoists, received via the crown of the...

Joy arises naturally when you stop doing yourself in/down. As soon as you ease off and congratulate yourself for doing so well – well...

Because in a class-based society there’s still quite a lot of movement up and down and the positions aren’t fixed, and this runs counter...

Everyone wants it – everyone feels diminished without it – most seek it by amassing external triumphs and visible victory spoil but in...

The ancient Taoists, along with the technique entailing using the mind to draw the kinetic power of the earth up through the bubbling...

In honour of John Kells, my esteemed, long-standing Tai Chi teacher I’d like to tell you about one of his most powerful ‘levers’ for...

We always seem to want to tidy things up and have them all neat and perfect as if a perfect life was our birthright and mess and...

By pressing the points I’m about to describe to you, using intelligent pressure levels, i.e. being sensitive and listening through your...

I’ve noticed over the years how certain topics, depression for one – M.E. is another – trigger a defensive reaction no matter how...

Panic is always misplaced. And furthermore it isn’t even real. You imagine yourself into it. At root, it’s survival fear but allowing it...

Elegance is such a…well, elegant word. It derives from the Latin for having the taste to choose (something tasteful) and is so elegant...

Your hands are the instruments with which you handle the material plane, both actually and metaphorically. By releasing blocked chi in...

Are you finding it hard keeping up with the burgeoning pressures associated with life? Are you finding your patience stretched? Are you...

Lao Tsu, the man accredited with founding Taoism around 2,600 years ago, though in fact probably more of an interpreter of what was...

I don’t tend much to mention where I am or what I’m up to as in the past it’s inspired a surprising degree of destructive envy when my...