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Breakup, Breakdown, Breakthrough, Breakdance

by Timothy Elfring

Break ups…. Almost everyone have had to deal with one or more in their lives. I have had quite a good and peaceful childhood, excelled at school without really having had to do anyt...

Buqi - Chinese Energy Therapy to Restore Balance

by Monica Perdoni

Buqi (pronounced boo chi) translates as Chinese healing with vital forces and was developed by Dr Shen Hongxun, drawing on Chinese and Western medicines, Tai Chi, acupuncture, Budd...

BUQI: An introduction to a new Chinese healing system

by Dr Shen Hongxun

Buqi is an old Chinese word – to indicate healing – during the Han dynasty. In historic books one can find records about people curing diseases without touching but nowhere is th...

Chi Exercises for Health and Rejuvenation

by Peter Chin Kean Choy

Peter Chin has been practicing Tai-Chi and Chi Kung for the past 25 years and is a Chi Healer at The Hale Clinic. The Chi exercises were about the practice of harmonising Nature's ...

Chi Kung and New Meridian Energies Synergy

by Catherine Dixon

Meridian Energy Therapies provide Chi Kung with a new context and practical relevance. This article focuses on the association between Chi Kung and Meridian Energy Therapies (whi...

Chi Nei Tsang

by Christopher Larthe

Chi Nei Tsang, a branch of Taoist medicine, was introduced to the West by the Taoist Master Mantak Chia. It is a method for releasing the toxic winds of emotional energy, which can...

Chi-Neng Qigong - 21st Century Health Practice

by Jeremy Lazarus

Jeremy Leach relates his experience of the profound practice of Chi-Neng Qigong – the mind/body practice that can improve health, promote mental and emotional well-being and promis...

Choi Kwang-Do - Complete Martial Art and Fitness Program

by Anthony Aurelius

...named after its founder, Grandmaster Kwang Jo Choi, is one of the youngest martial arts in the world. Started just over 16 years ago, it is a testimony to how modern science can...

Coordination of Body, Mind and Spirit

by Aaron Hoopes

Aaron Hoopes, a long-time student of Eastern philosophy, the martial arts and alternative medicine in the USA, Australia and Japan, explains how it is possible to achieve perfect c...

Discoveries of a Chi Healer

by Peter Chin Kean Choy

As a child, I was very intrigued by the Art of Healing and Martial Arts. My father, Chin Ket Leong, was a Chinese Medical Practitioner and a Martial Arts Master. At home, my brothe...

Embracing the Yin, containing the feminine

by Firouzeh Tajadod

My Taiji Master used to say “Women are naturally better than men at Taiji”. I used to think that he was merely flattering us women, as in fact he did not have many senior female ...

Falun Gong: A spiritual form of Qigong

by Peter Jauhal

Since its first appearance in China in 1992, Falun Gong has attracted more than ten million people practitioners.

Introduction to Aqua Tai-Chi

by Peter Chin Kean Choy

The Author developed the Aqua Tai-Chi system of exercises in 1986, which combines Tai-Chi with other Chi Kung/Taoist exercises, after recognizing the importance of the feeling of b...

jin shin jyutsu

by David and Donna Thomson

JIN SHIN JYUTSU® is an ancient Japanese art of harmonising life energy within the body. It is a physio-philosophy that involves the application of hands on energy locks (points) of...

Kalarippayat: The Martial Art of Kerala, South India

by John Paul Cassie

Kalarippayat, the ancient martial art of South India, is based on the science of Yoga for its forms and exercises, and its medical treatments are based on the science of Ayurveda.<...

Ki Treatment: Healing with Sound and Touch

by Alice Solomon and Annabel Hardy

This article focuses on Ki/Chi energy flow along the body’s meridians and energy channels, its philosophy and origins, what it is and how it works as a treatment. 

Medical Qigong - An Innovative Treatment for Hypertension

by Dr Seth Lefkowitz

In this article the author maintains that hypertension, more commonly known as high blood pressure, is the number one morbidity factor in developed countries. Allopathic (conventio...

Million Dollar Health Secrets - Standing Meditation

by Allan Rudolf

In my twenty-five years as a body therapist I have come across the words "million dollar health secret" three times. The term denotes a simple technique or practice which can easil...

My China Experience (Part One)?

by Allan Rudolf

The question mark after 'Part One' is not a printer's error. It is there because the experience hasn't really been crystallised fully in me yet; it is still evolving.

My China Experience (Part Two)

by Allan Rudolf

My China story continues (see Positive Health January/ February 1997 for Part One). Let me recap very briefly before continuing. I went to China last year for a month to immerse my...