Course Description
This 10-part course offers a progressive exploration of Zhang Zhuang or Standing Qi Gong. Each session builds on the last—refining alignment, releasing unnecessary tension, and developing a clearer internal connection throughout the body.
You’ll learn how to build a strong, well-integrated structure, uniting posture, breath, and awareness into a single practice. As the body opens and the nervous system settles, strength and stillness develop side by side.
The course begins with foundational standing principles—core alignments, balancing upward and downward forces in the body and relaxation without collapse—then progresses into more intermediate practices including spiralling, lengthening, and releasing deeper holding patterns, alongside the introduction of additional standing postures.
What this course will help you develop
Through this course, you will learn how to:
- Build a stable, well-aligned standing structure without excess muscular effort
- Reduce unnecessary tension while maintaining integrity and strength
- Improve your sense of grounding, balance, and vertical alignment
- Integrate posture, breath, and awareness into a single, coherent practice
- Develop internal connection through spiralling and lengthening rather than force
- Support nervous system settling through stillness and clarity of structure
- Establish a standing practice that is sustainable, adaptable, and repeatable
Course Outline
Through this course, you will learn how to:
- Lesson 1 - Introductions, warm ups and lower body alignments - feet, knees and pelvic stability
- Lesson 2 - Upper body alignments - spine, integrating and stabilising the shoulders and shoulder blades
- Lesson 3 - Integrated Wuji posture, further alignments, Wuji variations
- Lesson 4 - Standing postures 1 & 2 'holding the ball', plus variations
- Lesson 5 - Standing postures 3 & 4 plus introduction to spiralling
- Lesson 6 - Standing postures 5 & 6, plus variations
- Lesson 7 - Deepening into spiralling and lengthening while standing
- Lesson 8 - Working with intention, breath and awareness
- Lesson 9 - Deepening & developing your standing practice, intermediate to advanced level postures
- Lesson 10 - Putting it all together. Complete run through
This course is suitable for beginners and more experienced practitioners.
Important Notice
This course is not intended as a substitute for medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Qi Gong is a gentle, self-directed practice, and participants are responsible for working within their own limits.
If you have a medical condition, injury, or are experiencing ongoing health concerns, please consult a qualified healthcare professional before beginning this course.