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 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 | 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....
