Three Treasures Qigong

Three Treasures Qigong Three Treasures is the Qigong practice of Lindsay Trevarthen. Suitable for all ages & abilities.

Daytime classes in Leek and Ashbourne, workshops & one-to-one sessions in Qigong & therapeutic healing. Qigong (pronounced chee gung) is an ancient and powerful system of healing and energy medicine from China: it means ‘vital energy (Qi) cultivation (Gong)’

It uses breathing techniques, gentle movement and meditation to cleanse, strengthen, and circulate Qi. Qigong practice leads to better heal

th and vitality and a tranquil state of mind: it will help accelerate healing, slow ageing, relieve stress and enhance learning.

Seeing the small is called clarity;keeping flexible is called strength. Tao Te Ching, chap. 52, trans. Dyer
29/04/2026

Seeing the small is called clarity;
keeping flexible is called strength.

Tao Te Ching, chap. 52, trans. Dyer

Just playingnot doinganything special - the drawn tracesof an ink-soaked brush.Rengetsu(woman writing, Shoen Uemura)
26/04/2026

Just playing
not doing
anything special -
the drawn traces
of an ink-soaked brush.

Rengetsu

(woman writing, Shoen Uemura)

Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence ~ Alan Watts
25/04/2026

Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence ~ Alan Watts

The earth is a sacred vessel - it cannot be owned or improved. If you try to possess it, you will destroy it:If you try ...
10/04/2026

The earth is a sacred vessel - it cannot be owned or improved.

If you try to possess it, you will destroy it:
If you try to hold on to it - you will lose it.

Tao Te Ching, ch. 29, trans Kwok, Palmer & Ramsey

Breathe in, mind fully… 💚💚
08/04/2026

Breathe in, mind fully… 💚💚

If you make where you are going more important than where you are, there may be no point in going ~ Alan Watts
04/04/2026

If you make where you are going more important than where you are, there may be no point in going ~ Alan Watts

The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. W...
17/03/2026

The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

16/03/2026

Over the last few years online fitness marketers have discovered through keywording that certain words dramatically increase click-through rates and Tai Chi is one of them

After all it infers gentle exercise, longevity, and Eastern wisdom. So when advertisers combine Tai Chi and walking, they hit the perfect demographic: people over 50 looking for a low-impact exercise. Because this group spends more time on Facebook, they click more health-related content and they have a higher disposable income.

But despite all of these adverts when you look at what's behind them, Tai Chi walking turns out to be completely unrelated to Tai Chi - for what is offered is nothing more than slow marching, knee lifts, light callisthenics, and simple balance exercises. These are all good exercises but they are not Tai Chi - and while Im on the subject - these exercises are everywhere and freely available by searching Youtube for fitness exercises for the over 50s.

Such poor marketing is a shame because it misses out all the real skills that Tai Chi does train. Not muscle gain, not weight loss, not “your spouse won’t recognise you in 2 weeks” nonsense, but excellent skills in balance control, coordination, joint strength, breathing, energy boosts, concentration and that elusive state of “flow”.

So is Tai Chi walking a thing? Well, its is a bit like selling “Mozart breathing.”
Breathing is real. Mozart is real.
But putting the two together doesn’t make a new musical technique.

When you know who you truly are, there is an abiding alive sense of peace. You could call it joy because that's what jo...
07/03/2026

When you know who you truly are, there is an abiding alive sense of peace. You could call it joy because that's what joy is: vibrantly alive peace. It is the joy of knowing yourself as the very life essence before life takes on form. That is the joy of Being - the being who you truly are.

Eckhart Tolle

For most people in the West, harmony means no conflict and peace means an absence on violence, but these two states are ...
02/03/2026

For most people in the West, harmony means no conflict and peace means an absence on violence, but these two states are unobtainable. The true meaning of yin and yang is that there is always the potential of not the reality of conflict, struggle, difference, diversity and violence - verbal, structural or military. What the Chinese look for in their model of harmony and balance is to hold these powerful forces in dynamic tension, recognising that the difference and struggle is what gives birth to the energy, but also acknowledging that this energy can destroy itself unless a balance is found.

Conflict resolution .... is what the yin yang symbol is all about.

Yin and Yang, Martin Palmer.

27/02/2026

YIN AND YANG

We throw the term around all the time. We say, “up the yin yang.” We are told that Taijiquan is a matter of understanding yin and yang. But where did it all start?

This summation is derived from the Classic of Poetry (dated 11th–7th centuries BCE) and is translated in my new book:

“Duke Liu (born before tenth century BCE) was deeply dedicated. His territory was broad and long. He climbed to the ridgetops and watched the shifting of yin and yang—the shadow and light on the hillsides—and observed the courses of the streams and springs. . . .”

There is so much to learn here: that yin and yang were part of Chinese culture from a very early time; that the philosophical idea was derived from observations of nature; that yin and yang are not substances, forces, or entities but are relative states that can apply to anything; that yin and yang are in constant movement; that one defines the other; that there is no gap between the two; and that wholeness (represented by the ridgetops) is always intact in yin and yang.

Finally, this story puts us in Duke Liu’s place. Despite the fact that this story comes to us in a book, it merely points us back to nature: if we want to know Tao, we need to go into the world and experience it directly.

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http://dengmingdao.com/books/wisdom_tao.php

Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction ~ Alan Watts
23/02/2026

Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction ~ Alan Watts

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