What I’m Reading, What I’m Thinking

Essays and clinical observations on breath, pressure, fascia, posture, movement and qigong—drawn from Isaac Osborne’s nearly thirty years of practice, teaching and research.

Two Languages for the Same Body qigong and practice research and ideas Sep 17, 2026

There are two languages for what the breath does: the measurable one and the traditional one. I want to spend this post on why I keep both — because it's the heart of how I teach, and it's not a compromise. It's the actual point.

Here's the situation qigong puts you in. On one side you have the trad...

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What I Found While Recovering from a Knee Replacement clinical observations qigong and practice Aug 13, 2026

I've studied martial arts most of my life. Alongside that, for nearly thirty years, I've gone deep into the clinical side of the body — Rolfing®, corrective exercise, breath mechanics. That clinical work is precise and it works. But precision has a blind spot, and it took losing something to see it....

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