https://www.skool.com/internal-martial-art-as-yoga-2836/classroom/da547692?md=55c6e8008e52456bae8cc12ab3c4f919 Hello! I am starting to do longer more detailed form instruction, beginning with a 12 minute lesson on the first in a QiGong set from Baguazhang called Ding Shyr, or fixed postures. In this deceptively simple series, you hold various arm and body positions as you walk the circle in a slow meditative form that builds strength in the muscles, tendons, and eventually nerves, bone, and ligaments. I suggest familiarizing yourself with some of the warmups from the warmup class, and loosen up the joints some before diving in, but it is low impact and should be accessible to most. If you want to challenge yourself, hold lower stances, move more slowly or walk the circle for longer- in my early training it was not uncommon to do DIng Shyr for and hour or more at a time. Please have a look, I will be teaching this first posture and will continue with the rest of the Ding Shyr form in coming weeks. Thanks- Thomas QiGong & Martial Arts as Yoga on Skool https://www.skool.com/internal-martial-art-as-yoga-2836/classroom/da547692?md=55c6e8008e52456bae8cc12ab3c4f919

... for a while now. As I was putting together new classroom footage, it got me looking at my older stuff, these are clips from around '95 (I think?) to early 2000's - just some fun bits of footy that made it through the time machine. Always good to have some documents to go back to when you were in your youth. Let me know what you think, or better post some of your own that helps tell your story- I would love to hear/see it!

If you have landed on this page, Welcome! You may be interested in Martial Arts, QiGong, Yoga, TaiJi, BaGua or some combination thereof, if so we are on that same path. I have been studying these arts since the early 90s, and they have brought me so much that has enhanced my life- I look forward to sharing my knowledge and helping people of all levels of experience use the internal arts to unlock some of the energy they have inside themselves to heal and find the wellspring of power and energy within us all.