Bellingen Qigong

11/06/2026

Qigong Practice Today – Friday, 12 June, 12:30 pm

If the weather is kind and it’s not raining, we’ll be practising outside Bellingen Library.

If it’s raining or the ground is too wet, we’ll move to the bandstand behind the grandstand at Bellingen Park.

Today we will be continuing our practice of:

• Taiji Shibashi Qigong
• Six Unity Qigong (Liu He Gong 六合功)

Through these forms we explore movement, breathing, balance, coordination and relaxation while gradually deepening familiarity with the practice over time.

Beginners and experienced practitioners are equally welcome.

📍 Bellingen Library (weather permitting)
📍 Bandstand behind the grandstand, Bellingen Park (wet weather option)

🕧 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
💰 Casual attendance: $10 or $5 concession

09/06/2026

What exactly is the “medicine” inside Tai Chi, Qigong and traditional martial arts?

Not in a mystical sense.

But practically.

Why do certain ways of training:

* calm the nervous system?
* improve recovery?
* change breathing?
* affect emotional state?
* or leave some people grounded while others finish practice completely wired?

Next weekend I’ll be presenting an online webinar for Wushu Tai Chi & Qigong Australia Inc called:

The Medicine Inside the Movement — How Traditional Chinese Medicine informs Tai Chi, Qigong & Martial Arts

The webinar explores Chinese medicine not as abstract theory, but as a long observation of how bodies change through training over time.

We’ll explore:

* Chinese medicine as observation
* how training organisation changes the body
* why pacing, transitions and recovery matter
* the Five Phases as patterns within movement practice
* and how traditional systems cultivated health through regulation rather than exhaustion

Designed for:

* Tai Chi practitioners
* Qigong students
* martial artists
* instructors
* and anyone interested in the deeper relationship between movement and health.

One of the central ideas of the webinar is this:

The body gradually learns how to organise itself with less internal conflict.

And perhaps that is the real medicine inside the movement.

Sunday 14th June — hosted by Wushu Tai Chi & Qigong Australia Inc.

Details and registration through WTQA.

https://www.facebook.com/share/1DrQwzurDk/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Member Webinars
The Medicine Inside the Movement – How Traditional Chinese Medicine informs Tai Chi, Qigong and Martial Arts.
Delivered by Matt Sincock, TCM Practitioner and Teacher.

Sunday 14th June at 1:30pm

The Medicine Inside the Movement explores the shared foundations of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tai Chi, Qigong and martial arts through lived, embodied experience rather than technical theory. Drawing on long-term practice in martial arts and Qigong, as well as clinical work in Chinese Medicine, this webinar examines how principles such as structure, flow, breath, efficiency and regulation naturally arise through traditional movement training. Designed for practitioners and teachers of all levels, the session offers a clear and accessible way to understand how Chinese medicine is expressed through movement practice, deepening insight while remaining practical and grounded.

More information on the above webinar is available on our website.

This is a member event. You will need your membership number to register. Subsidiary members may use their school’s membership number. Registrants will receive a Zoom link by the Friday before the webinar.

29/05/2026

Qigong today at the undercover Band Stand at Bellingen Market Park, behind the grandstand :-)

22/05/2026

Monday Evening Qigong
5pm – 6pm
Uniting Church Hall, Bellingen

For the next month we will be practising Guigen Qigong, a beautiful and grounding form that works gently through the whole body while helping to create greater balance and cooperation between the internal organ systems.

Guigen Qigong has a calm, steady rhythm that suits evening practice well — allowing the body to settle after the day while encouraging circulation, coordination, and regulation through soft continuous movement.

We will also continue practising the Six Unity Exercises, which help connect the relationship between the internal and external body — posture, breath, movement, awareness, and the way we meet the environment around us.

By staying with the same forms over a number of weeks, the practice has time to deepen naturally. Repetition allows the body to become more familiar with the movements, often revealing greater softness, flow, and connection over time.

A short example of Guigen Qigong can be seen here:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=GYAkTRBJ9jc&si=3r8CeXSBHV-Xftv5

All welcome — beginners and experienced practitioners alike.

Guigen Qigong Demonstration | Shanghai Qigong Research Institute (C...

21/05/2026

Friday Qigong Class
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm

If the weather is clear, we will practise outside the library in Bellingen.
If it is raining, we will meet at the bandstand in Bellingen Market Park behind the grandstand.

As we move through the transition into Autumn and Winter, and practise at the time of mid-day — traditionally associated with the Heart in Chinese medicine — we will be working with two beautiful flowing systems:

Taiji Qigong Shibashi
and the Six Unity Movements.

Shibashi is gentle, simple, and flowing. The movements are easy to follow while helping the body settle, soften, and move with greater ease and coordination.

The Six Unity Movements sit halfway between internal and external practice, helping us reconnect the relationship between our inner and outer world — movement, breath, posture, awareness, and the way the body responds to the environment. In traditional Chinese medicine, this relationship is closely connected to regulation and the body’s protective qi (immune function).

Both forms carry a smooth, open, flowing quality that reflects the Heart at this time of day — calm movement, circulation, expression, and connection.

We will be practising both forms on Fridays over the next month. Returning to the same movements each week allows the body time to settle into the practice more deeply. Rather than constantly learning new forms, repetition allows us to refine, soften, notice more, and gradually deepen the quality of the movements over time.

All welcome — beginners and experienced practitioners alike.

18/05/2026

Tonight’s Monday evening Qigong class
5:00pm–6:00pm
St Andrew’s Uniting Church Hall, Bellingen

As we move more deeply toward winter, tonight’s practice will focus on the Six Unity Exercises together with Guigen Qigong.

The Six Unity Exercises help reconnect the body from interior to exterior — coordinating movement, breath, structure, and attention so the body can adjust more smoothly to seasonal change. In Chinese medicine, this transition period between seasons can place greater demand on the body’s regulating and protective functions. Practices like these help support the movement of Qi through the organ systems while strengthening connection between the body and the environment.

Guigen Qigong creates a more settled and grounded quality through the whole body — helping develop internal connection, circulation, and steadiness as the evenings become cooler and darker.

Monday evening practice has a quieter, more yin quality.
Less pushing.
More settling.
More listening.

All welcome — beginners and experienced practitioners alike.

14/05/2026

Qigong in Bellingen today — Friday Opening Practice

As we transition toward Winter, with the cooler damp weather and more rain beginning to settle in, this month we’ll be focusing on the Six Unity Exercises alongside Shibashi.

In traditional Chinese practice, the transition between seasons is considered an important time to strengthen coordination between the body and the environment. Rather than pushing harder, the aim is to help the body reorganise, regulate, and adapt more smoothly to change.

The Six Unity Exercises emphasise connection:
upper and lower body,
inside and outside,
movement and breath working together as one continuous process.

Practised regularly, this helps maintain circulation, coordination, and resilience as the weather becomes colder and wetter.

If the rain holds off, class will be held in the park outside Bellingen Library from 12:30–1:30pm.

If it is raining, we’ll move under cover to the bandstand at Bellingen Market Park behind the grandstand.

All welcome — beginners and experienced Qigong people alike.

10/05/2026

Back from Greece and returning to Qigong classes this week at Bellingen Qigong.

Travel changes the rhythm of the body. Practice helps us settle again.

Looking forward to breathing deeply, loosening stiffness, calming the nervous system, and moving together again.

24/04/2026

Saturday 25 April is World Tai Chi & Qigong Day this year — a quiet reminder that people across the world will pause to practice together.

At 10am in each local time zone, people gather to move, breathe, and practice. As the clock turns from country to country, a wave of Qigong travels around the world — sunrise to sunset, body to body, breath to breath.

Here in Australia, the day also carries the weight and remembrance of ANZAC Day.

So tomorrow feels a little different.

A day to practice with respect.

A day to remember stillness, gratitude, and the lives that came before us.

Wherever you are, perhaps take a few moments at 10am — quietly, gently — to join the wave.

10/04/2026

Next Qigong session on Friday will be 15 May as I am away travelling at the moment.
Until then keep practising your Qigong forms. I will post some more videos soon.