How to Practise Qigong Through a Long Sitting Day, Starting With Your Hips and Breath
If you sit for most of the day, your hips, lower back and knees tend to complain first.
Mineral-Rich Cooking for Joint Health: What a Slow Pot of Broth Can Offer, and What It Can’t
Autumn brings a particular kind of kitchen weather.
How to Choose Your First Taiji Shoes When Your Feet and Joints Are Sensitive
If you are searching for the best shoes for tai chi beginners, the useful question is not which brand or style to buy.
Why Balance Matters More Than Flexibility in Taiji Quan, Especially When Your Joints Feel Stiff
Plenty of adults with stiff hips, achy knees or a tight lower back picture Taiji Quan as slow, graceful stretching, and decide they are too stiff to start.
What Late Summer Dampness Means for Heavy, Puffy Joints, and Six Food Swaps to Try
Humid weather has a way of making the body feel like damp laundry: heavy, slow to move, a little swollen.
Push or Rest? Three Questions to Ask Your Body Before You Practise Today
Most advice on pacing yourself comes down to “listen to your body.” It is good advice, but it assumes you already know what your body is saying.
Why Taiji Asks Your Hips and Shoulders to Open Together, and How to Feel It Standing at Home
Hips and shoulders are usually treated as separate problem areas. One gets a hip stretch, the other a shoulder roll, and each is expected to improve alone.
Does Autumn Weather Really Stiffen Your Joints? What We Know, What We Don’t, and a Two-Week Way to Check Your Own
Many people with stiff joints can name the week autumn arrives.
How to Lighten Your Plate in Spring for Stiff Joints, Without Calling It a Detox
As the days lengthen, the heavy stews, roasts and long-baked dishes that suit a cold month can start to feel out of step with the weather.
What Spring Qigong Means by Liver Qi, and Three Gentle Movements to Loosen a Winter-Stiff Body
Qigong for liver qi in spring starts with a different idea of “liver” than the one in a biology textbook.