The Relaxed Way to True Flexibility: An integrated Mind-Body approach

My student and friend Michael Cronin has written a small book on flexibility that has just been published on Amazon.

The approach integrates mind and body and the book is fully illustrated with key points and descriptions for each exercise.

It's available as both an e-book and printed version.

Cook Ding's Kitchen: The Dan Tian

Cook Ding's Kitchen: The Dan Tian: A central topic in almost all martial arts revolves around the DanTian (Tanden).  Below is an excerpt from a post that appeared recently at ...

Book - Immortal Essence, Dao Bones

 My friend Heron Beecham has written a new book on idioms and internal cultivation in Daoist, Chan, and Martial Traditions.

It's title is  Immortal Essence, Dao Bones and is published by Three Pines Press.

See https://threepinespress.com/  where there are links to buy it or as a pdf.

George Xu - Martial Qi gong

 

Cook Ding's Kitchen: The Still Point of Kyudo

Cook Ding's Kitchen: The Still Point of Kyudo: One of the things I have always liked about Kyudo as a Budo, is the stillness and settling which takes place before the shot. It's almo...

Tired?

 I recall my teacher telling us in a class that if we were only physically tired we should still practice our Tai Chi.

On the other hand if were mentally tired, then we should abstain as we would only be practicing being tired.

Cook Ding's Kitchen: Martial Arts Forms Applications

Cook Ding's Kitchen: Martial Arts Forms Applications: Below is an excerpt from a post that appeared at Applied Methods. It addresses a topic that I find quite interesting. When teaching an appl...