Abstract
When I was invited to hold Chi Kung workshops at the AHPB Summer Festival I was not expecting to be faced with the conditions we eventually encountered. In a strange way, however, the mud and the testing conditions seemed to earth us all more forcibly and thus the energy, when raised through doing the Chi Kun, had an enhanced quality of richness. I felt very honoured to facilitate such a great group of people and while I am sure some readers will be familiar with Chi Kung I hope they may allow me to extol its history and its virtues a little more expansively than I had the opportunity to do at the Festival itself.