Qi-gong (pronounced chee-gung), which means energy cultivation, is a gentle form of exercise that reduces stress, supports health, and promotes awareness in activity.

The aim is to cultivate stability, clarity, and flexibility in body, emotions, and mind. These practices are suitable for beginning and experienced practitioners from any tradition, in any physical condition.

I want to help people to make the impossible more possible, the possible more pleasant, and the pleasant more elegant.
~ Moshe Feldenkrais

I first explored tai chi and qigong with Tao Ping-Siang, Richard Aries, and the Five Willow Tai Chi Society. I learned the eight pieces of brocade and an internal neigong practice with Ken McLeod. I learned the modern therapeutic Tai Chi for Better Balance from Suman Barkhas, and shibashi from Franz Moeckl. What I practice and teach has been influenced by what I've learned from Jeff Bickford (Feldenkrais) and Gail Gustafson (movement analysis).

Rather than follow a particular lineage or strict form, my intention is to help people move with awareness to promote health, flexibility and balance, and to cultivate body awareness in meditation and in daily life.

Standing Like a Tree (zhan zhuang)

Whole Body Breathing

Besides increased flexibility, stretching, healthy breathing, and hormonal balance, long-term qigong practice supports many health benefits, including:

Arthritis: reduces pain and physical functioning

Asthma: enhances blood circulation, oxygen distribution and relaxes bronchi

Balance: improves sense of balance, muscle strength, and flexibility

Blood sugar: improves indicators of metabolic syndrome and glycemic control

Blood pressure: lowers high blood pressure

Bone density: improves bone density for post-menopausal women

Breast cancer: aerobic capacity, muscular strength, and flexibility

Cancer: improves immunity, blood circulation, metabolism, respiration, and cardiovascular

Cardiovascular: lowers blood pressure, increases aerobic capacity

Cerebral arteriosclerosis: improves blood flow to the brain

Endocrine gland functions improved

Fibromyalgia: reduces pain, fatigue, and other symptoms

Heart disease: improves blood pressure, cholesterol, triglycerides, and insulin

Hormones: improves balance

Hypertension: lowers blood pressure, improves serum levels

Immune system: increases T-cell production

Pain: raises pain threshold and response

Parkinson's disease: improves balance

Sleep: improves the quality and duration

Stroke: fewer strokes for those who practice qigong daily; improves balance after a stroke