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 | 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...