by Steve Elliott | Jul 24, 2024 | News, Steve’s Musings
Several years ago, I researched Qigong approaches to osteoporosis. Much of my focus was around Mantak Chia’s Bone Breathing exercises. Using his material as a guide, I developed a series of Qigong exercises that, over a period of eight weeks, taught people with...
by Steve Elliott | Nov 17, 2023 | News, Steve’s Musings
First an apology. This article is a bit longer than usual. Some pent-up stuff here that just had to get out. This article started out as a confession, morphed into a rant, and then de-escalated into ordinary preaching to the choir. Much of this vacillation and angst...
by Steve Elliott | Jan 17, 2023 | News, Steve’s Musings
Lately, NPR has been touting the works of Robert Waldinger, who leads the Harvard Study of Adult Development. This is one of the longest-running studies of adult life ever conducted. They have been following hundreds of people since 1938 and have come to a very...
by Paul Humphrey | Jan 9, 2023 | News
Please enjoy these two new videos featuring Silk Reeling and Breathing...
by Steve Elliott | Jul 20, 2022 | Steve’s Musings
The readings for the June Embodied Daoist Book Club, hosted by Dao Shr Suzy, included an essay: The Daoist Discourse on Nature by Dessislava Damyanova The theme was how to attain a more stable state of equilibrium by reining in wide swings of emotions. Daoism...
by Steve Elliott | Oct 1, 2021 | News
Here is a video with several easy exercises to help arthritic hands be more flexible and ease the pain. Hands that don’t get exercise tend to become less flexible. Hands that get overworked will become sore. We are aiming for Goldilocks exercises that provide...
by Paul Humphrey | Feb 8, 2021 | News
Steve Elliott has been awarded a certificate to teach Dr. Paul Lam’s Tai Chi for Arthritis and Fall Prevention 1 & 2. This program is endorsed by the Centers for Disease Control and has been shown in evidence-based studies to reduce pain, increase mobility and...
by Steve Elliott | Jan 6, 2021 | News
Blue Heron Tai Chi has partnered with The Therapy Center to offer Tai Chi classes twice a week. For more information about the Therapy Center, go to mytherapycenteronline.com. Patricia Vickland, D.P.T., heads up the Therapy Center and she and the staff are happy to...
by Steve Elliott | Aug 12, 2020 | Steve’s Musings
John Haskovec sent me a link to a video called The Science of Yoga. If you replace the label Yoga with Tai Chi throughout the article, it still rings true. I know this is preaching to the choir, but sometimes it is good to remind ourselves why we want to keep on this...
by Steve Elliott | Jul 6, 2020 | Steve’s Musings
I’ve been reading up on posture, breathing, and their relationship to well-being in the book Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor. It may come as a surprise, but you can get healthier by standing up straight and breathing through your nose....
