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Internal Arts Madeira Tai Chi and Qigong

19 Years of Tai Chi Experience

26 Years of Qigong Experience

Free public classes:

Madalena do Mar
T-W-Th 8am-9am

Parque de Santa Catarina
Funchal, Sunday 8am-9am

Private training available - DM for pricing

28/02/2026

Day 5 of my virtual pilgrimage on the Shikoku Henro is complete!

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27/02/2026

You Should Practice Every Day, But You Don't Need to Practice Everything Every Day

I frequently see people consign their health practices to their class times and not train anywhere else.

This isn't unique to the Tai Chi or Qigong world I'm most familiar with. I've encountered the same phenomenon in other martial arts and health communities such as Karate, Yoga, Pilates, etc.

I know that we all seem to live busy lives and that it can be hard to carve out time to practice outside of class, but I'm pretty sure you can find twenty minutes somewhere in your schedule to do some forms practice or a few asanas.

And you don't have to do everything, just something, even if it's only ten minutes of standing practice (Zhan Zhuang), fifteen minutes of meditation, or twenty minute of silent walking (no podcasts broadcasting out of your earbuds!).

Daily doses of short periods of practice can have a cumulative effect on your health; small steps still take you closer to your goals.

Please don't wait for your T-Th 8:00-9:00 class to take them!

27/02/2026

Day 4 of my virtual pilgrimage on the Shikoku Henro is complete!

Link is in the comments section.

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26/02/2026

Day 3 of my virtual pilgrimage on the Shikoku Henro is complete!

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25/02/2026

Better Balance

A lot of my new Tai Chi students come to me complaining about having poor balance.

In my experience, unless they have neurological damage or problems with their inner ear, their issue isn’t poor balance, but instead weak legs.

Strong legs are the foundation balance is built on.

Tai Chi can help improve leg strength because it requires practitioners to always keep their legs bent, thereby transferring their weight from their skeletal structure to their leg muscles.

Think of doing a push-up. If your arms are locked out at the top of the movement, it’s relatively easy to hold this position because you aren’t really engaging your muscles much.

The same is true if your arms are fully bent when your body is at the bottom, close to the ground.

However, if you try to hold yourself in the middle with your arms half bent, you will quickly tire.

That’s what Tai Chi is doing to your legs.

Qigong can have the same effect, but typically lacks the coordinated stepping and other movements that help you gain integrated control of your body, another factor of balance that I’ll save for later.

25/02/2026

Day 2 of my virtual pilgrimage on the Shikoku Henro is complete!

Link is in the comments section.

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24/02/2026

Day 1 of my virtual pilgrimage on the Shikoku Henro is complete!

Link in the comments section below.

Subscription to my Substack is free.

23/02/2026

Welcome to Coffee, Qi, and Me Issue #7!

Here, I talk about reconnecting with an old friend and sharing a long walk together.

People are the most important thing in life.

Never pass up on opportunities to connect with the ones you care about and who care about you.

Link is in the comments section below.

16/02/2026

Just Get Out of the Way

I was thinking today about a demonstration I saw a few years ago that was part of an Aikido sensei's seminar on conflict resolution and de-escalation. The audience members were just regular people, not martial artists, law enforcement, or anything like that.

At the beginning of the seminar, the sensei asked for several volunteers to stand up and he went around the room, stood in front of them, and asked them to hold their arms out, elbows bent, and palms up.

That's it, no other instructions.

He then placed his hands on tom of theirs and pushed down. Every single person he did this with automatically resisted by pushing up against the pressure.

The sensei finished by asking the last volunteer to reverse roles and press down on his palms. When the volunteer started to push, the sensei simply moved his hands out of the way, and let the force pass by.

There was an audible gasp from the audience as they immediately understood the lesson: instead of meeting force with force, another option is to just get out of the way.

I don't practice Aikido, but that demonstration fundamentally changed the way I respond to pressure, whether it's physical or mental.

Stepping to the side and letting it pass by almost always gives you the breathing room to regain clarity of mind to act and not just react.

15/02/2026

“We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is spiral; we have already climbed many steps.” - Herman Hesse

This is an excellent quote for anyone practicing Tai Chi, especially in the beginning stages of your training.

Tai Chi is more technically complex than you might think (as I often say, anyone who tries to convince you otherwise is either a fraud or is trying to gain access to your money, probably both) and there will be times when you feel like you’re not making any progress.

Don’t quit in frustration. You’re actually improving, you just can’t see it yet.

Every day that you show up and put in the work pushes you forward and upward.

Keep going.

13/02/2026

Welcome to Issue #5 of Coffee, Qi, and Me!

Here, I give recommendations for how to keep training Tai Chi when you don’t have much space to practice in.

Simply put, if you have enough room to stand up straight and swing your arms without hitting anything (or anyone), then you can practice.

Just a bit of imagination can overcome almost any limitations!

Link is in the comments section below.

Happy reading!

13/02/2026

The first time your Tai Chi instructor asks you to do the form on your own...

Trust me, I've been there many times and know exactly how it feels!

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VE 138
Madalena Do Mar
9360-420

Horário de Funcionamento

Terça-feira	08:00 - 09:00
Quarta-feira	08:00 - 09:00
Quinta-feira	08:00 - 09:00
Domingo	08:00 - 09:00

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