I have been involved in these arts for a long time.
However, consistently and seriously, since 2004, when I started with Lydia Tyllianaki at the Nea Smyrni school. 20 years and counting!
Since then, even though I have been living outside Athens for years, I try to keep in touch with the group whenever my time allows. Exercise is a constant part of my life — at least three times a week — while Qi Gong has found a place even in the small “squares” of everyday life
It’s all about flow.
If you don’t move, you “stagnate”. Everything around us is in motion — how could our body be otherwise?
Externally and internally. This is what these two arts do for me:
they regulate and enhance the flow — in my body internally and externally.
And anyone who says that you “don’t exercise” probably doesn’t understand what they are talking about.
Forty-five minutes of slow sets, at a slow pace, and the muscles will remember it
It is certainly not a panacea.
However, in difficult moments, when I let the flow and the mind calm down through exercise,
things become easier and clearer.
Something has definitely become deeper and more essential: working in detail, starting and finishing, and — above all — going into everything in depth.
I don’t know if it “changed” anything.
But I know that, after twenty years, both of these arts are part of my life.
And I also know that without them I get tired more easily,
I get heavy, I hurt. Something is missing.
Arianna Maselou
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