Bodhi Medical Qigong

An important reminder in our hustle culture!

Have you ever thought about this? It’s all connected. It’s how we approach healing in TCM.

What is Qigong?

Qigong is often described as moving meditation.

It combines gentle movement, mobility, breathwork, and mindful awareness to help you reconnect with your body. As you move, your breathing slows, your mind becomes calmer, and your nervous system shifts out of stress mode.

It’s more than exercise, it’s a practice that nourishes your body, quiets your mind, and supports your spirit.

What is Qi?

Think of it like electricity.

Everything in the universe is made up of vibrating energy, even what looks solid. Your body is no different. Every cell, every organ, every breath carries an electrical and magnetic charge.

In Traditional Chinese Medicine, that life force is called Qi (pronounced “chee”).

When your Qi flows freely, you feel energized, resilient, and healthy. When it becomes blocked or depleted, your body starts sending signals: fatigue, tension, pain, poor sleep, brain fog, or feeling “off.”

Qigong is the practice of cultivating and directing your own Qi through movement, breath, and awareness. You’re not creating something new, you’re learning to work with the energy that’s already within you.

Your body was designed to heal.
Sometimes it just needs better energy flow.

Our lymphatic system is an interconnected highway of reservoirs and passages that allow for the movement of healing fluids to move around the body. But unlike the heart, the lymphatic system doesn’t have a pump. It requires the movement of the muscular to stimulate drainage and flow. But in a society that rarely moves as much as it needs to, lymph can often get stuck, obstructed or backed up. This creates changes in both functional physiology as well as the physical appearance.

But never fear, with the application of a few specifically applied acupressure massage techniques, you can once again promote the movement of healing fluid through the highways and get rid of those lymphatic traffic, jams, causing that unwanted swelling in the neck. Give it a try.

The lateral hip stabilizers are an important compartment of musculature that stabilizes the body‘s ability to counteract inbalance. When we’re unstable it’s easy for us to fall and maybe break a hip, so by using unilateral movements we can challenge the body’s ability to fight gravity in an uneven fashion, and create stability once again.

Do your knees crack or crunch when you squat?

You’re not alone.

One of the biggest myths is that every click, pop, or crunch means something is wrong.

In many cases, those sounds are completely normal and aren’t a sign of damage or arthritis. They can happen as tendons move, gas bubbles shift within the joint, or tissues glide over one another.

What matters more is pain, swelling, or loss of function, not the noise itself.

One exercise I often recommend is the Poliquin Squat.

By balancing on one leg and allowing the knee to travel over the toe through a small controlled range of motion, this movement helps to;

- Improve ankle and foot mobility and stability by activating the posterior tibialis muscle.
- Strengthen the quadriceps muscles, specifically the vastus medialis. Which allows for proper tracking of the knee cap within its groove.
- Strengthens the lateral hip stabilizers.

Start slowly.
Move with control.
Work within a comfortable range.
Healthy knees aren’t built by avoiding movement.

They’re built by moving well.

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Over the next few days we’re gonna be tackling different pains in different parts of the body.

I’m going to be giving you simple exercises that you can do at home to feel better right away.

The posterior tibialis muscle runs down the back of the shin and ties into the underside of the foot connecting with the arch.

This is one of the most under utilized muscles because of the shape of modern shoes.

This weakness causes the arch of the foot to fall inward leading to irritation and pain in the under surface of the foot known as plantar fasciitis.

Thankfully it is such a simple thing to fix.

By strengthening the posterior tibialis muscles by way of Adducted calf raises, we rebalance and strengthen the arch and get rid of the pain.

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For years, we’ve been taught that disease is something that just happens to us.

Traditional Chinese Medicine sees it differently.

It teaches that our daily behaviours shape our health.

The food we eat.
The way we move.
How we breathe.
How we sleep.
How we respond to stress.
The emotions we hold onto.
The habits we repeat every single day.

None of these guarantee disease.

And none of them guarantee perfect health.

But together, they influence the environment your body lives in.

That’s why, in Chinese Medicine, the goal isn’t simply to treat illness once it appears.

The goal is to create the conditions where illness is less likely to develop in the first place.

This is where Qigong fits in.

It’s not just another exercise routine.

It’s a daily practice that combines movement, breathing, and mindful awareness to support circulation, calm the nervous system, improve mobility, and restore balance throughout the body.

Health isn’t built by what you do once.

It’s built by what you do every day.

Disease is a product of behaviour.

So is health.

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