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Self Managing Chronic Illness

admin — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 13:48:16 +0000

Self Managing Chronic Illness Your guide to self care. This article on self managing chronic illness looks at the impact of chronic health conditions on every day life and offers suggestions for ways to self manage alongside or outside of Western medical treatment. I myself as a Tai Chi, Qigong and meditation instructor live with...

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Nourish Through Breath Part 2

admin — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 08:45:03 +0000

Nourish Through Breath Part 2 Teach yourself better breath work techniques for optimum health. The second part of my breath work programme, looks at the relationship between pain and poor breathing habits. Learn about the role of the diaphragm muscle when taking a full breath and what the best posture is when performing breath work techniques. ...

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Chronic Health Warrior

admin — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 13:53:43 +0000

Chronic Health Warrior I'd like to introduce you all to Ren, a young man with complex health needs who has channelled his experience into song writing and music. I've not been blown away by new music for a while. Ren has released a song called "Hi Ren", which details his inner conflict over living with...

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The Art of Pacing

admin — Fri, 06 May 2022 19:44:36 +0000

The Art of Pacing What does pacing mean and how can it benefit you as a life philosophy? Pacing is generally the opposite of how we have been conditioned and brought up. We live in an ever increasing fast paced and demanding world. It's no wonder stress is one of the most silent and untreated...

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Tai Chi Hurt My Knees

admin — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 19:00:30 +0000

Tai Chi Hurt My Knees There are many barriers to starting something new, whether a hobby, new job or leisure activity. We are our worst enemy sometimes and our minds will throw up all sorts of reasons why not to do something. When we start something new, our minds will also try and dissuade us...

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Self Managing Chronic Pain

admin — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 10:30:25 +0000

Self Managing Chronic Pain For those living with chronic pain who would like to be active in their self care management, read over my collection of resources that aim to naturally and holistically support you self managing chronic pain. Explore gentle and powerful methods for both mind and body to change your pain experience. I...

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Chronic Pain Course

admin — Fri, 14 Jun 2019 08:17:52 +0000

Chronic Pain Course ReMap Course Summary - March to June 2019 Wednesday 12 June 2019 saw the completion of the 12 week ReMap course, a movement and stillness class for those living with chronic pain. Over the duration I introduced the students to 'Hibernating Bear Tai Chi', covering a variety of Qigong, Chen Tai Chi and...

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ReMap Pain Management

admin — Fri, 15 Mar 2019 09:44:15 +0000

ReMap Pain Management Movement and Stillness for Health and Wellbeing March - June 2019 The Independent Arts charity launched a new project entitled ‘ReMap’ on 20th March in conjunction with the chronic Pain clinic to see how Tai Chi and Qigong aided life with chronic pain. This project is designed to help people manage their...

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Pain Instructs

admin — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 20:12:05 +0000

Pain Instructs Training Tai Chi and Qigong during times of injury, chronic and acute pain can offer some unusual benefits. Simply put, pain instructs. It's one of the responses in the body that is not subtle, it hurts and we react to it. When you experience physical pain in your Tai Chi or Qigong practice,...

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What does EDS pain feel like?

admin — Sun, 06 Aug 2017 13:08:20 +0000

What does EDS pain feel like? Making the invisible visible I would like to describe my experience of living with pain to help educate and raise awareness for all living with chronic and acute pain health conditions. For those reading this that know someone who lives with chronic pain, the best thing you can do is...

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