By Paul Cavel, Posted 28 June 2010
Most internal arts practices are non-aerobic exercise. They can make you healthy, but you won’t get the aerobic workout you would from Western exercise programmes. Walking fast—using the techniques I’ve been describing for the last three months—combines internal power generation with aerobic exercise. It can upgrade your internal systems and make you super fit!
Training Tip: June 2010
By Paul Cavel, Posted 1 June 2010
The last two months I’ve written about releasing the nerves, creating a sung body and deepening the internals of your walk. Now it’s time to walk in a circle to supercharge your chi.
First and foremost, I want to make the statement that I’m not specifically teaching the movements of bagua albeit incorporating aspects associated with bagua. Even still you can use normal heel-toe Circle Walking to generate chi.
By Paul Cavel, Posted 1 May 2010
Last month I wrote about walking with a sung body. If you’ve been practising, you’ve probably realised the important role of your alignments at this stage of the game. Proper alignments are important regardless of the activity, but they’re especially noticeable when you try something new.
By Paul Cavel, Posted 31 March 2010
For the launch of my new blogsite, www.CircleWalking.com, I’m posting several monthly training tips on the subject of walking. Anyone who is serious about training is always looking for ways to get in a little extra practice in a day. Addicts like myself look for ways to practice in their normal activities—imbuing them with internal content. Normal, heel-toe walking is one of my favourites!
By Paul Cavel, Posted 10 March 2010
It took awhile to sink in when I heard that $500 million was spent to make a movie. At first it didn’t seem possible, then just ridiculous. Finally it dawned on me: $500 Million is three-quarters of the
By Paul Cavel, Posted 8 March 2010
The aim of the game is arriving in the space where you are completely open, relaxed and to some degree awake. To get there you must fully release your nervous system, become more present and quiet the mind.
By Paul Cavel, Posted 1 March 2010
Balancing the body is a continuous process as that which is more or less closed now may become more or less open later. This is especially true when you actively engage in the process of unbinding your body. As you focus on any bound place or part of your body and become successful in opening it up, you’ll notice how it becomes looser and relatively more flexible than other body parts.
By Paul Cavel, Posted 26 February 2010
As your energy develops through regular, progressively more accurate practice your body becomes stronger, you can concentrate longer, you require less sleep, your libido grows and you can handle stressful situations better. These are among the normal benefits from energetic exercise. Then, suddenly, you hit a plateau.
By Paul Cavel, Posted 30 January 2010
The festive season is now safely behind us. We’re getting back to or re-establishing our routines and possibly reducing our consumption of food and drink delights. Family visits and traveling is slowing down (at least airline prices seem to suggest so) and you can now begin thinking about how daily practice fits into your day.
By Paul Cavel, Posted 8 January 2010
Here we are emerging from another period of overindulgence with all the excess food and drink courtesy of the religious and/or capitalist winter rituals. It is of course an assault on the digestive and cardiovascular systems, but the liver ultimately takes the brunt of the punishment. So the following is a few tips to help you recover and get back to moving toward more life…