Recently, my Tai Chi teacher said a term in class that was new to me: magpie bridge (in German: Elsterbrücke). Magpie Bridge (Què Qiáo) is when you touch your tongue to the roof of your mouth. I have done that so many times, for many years. I was astonished that I had never heard that […]
Exactly one year ago I published this blogpost to announce my book The Taijiquan & Qi Gong Dictionary!And I am happy to say that I think it is a success. Many other Tai Chi and Qi Gong bloggers wrote about it (here, here, here, here, here). And I currently have 9 reviews on Amazon.com,
There are a couple of acupuncture points which you should know when you practice Taijiquan and Qi Gong. The most important point (or rather energy field) is the Dantian. And I already talked about where is Dantian and the day I discovered my Dantian. Now I want to talk about the Mingmen. This acupoint is […]
Qi Gong and Taijiquan is full of numbers. 8 brocades, 108 form movements, 3 treasures etc. Thus I want to show you the numbers from China! Let’s start with the Chinese number 1-10; 100 and 1000. And I added some examples from
The answer to “what is a kwoon” is really simple. This is how I described it in my Taijiquan & Qi Gong Dictionary*: So the kwoon (館) is basically the room where you train Taijiquan and/or Qi Gong. In Pinyin it is actually written as Guǎn and it has some other meanings, e.g. a place […]
