Of everything Rodney does, Qigong is the piece clients keep. A session ends. A standing practice does not.
Zhan Zhuang
Zhan Zhuang — standing post practice — is the foundation Rodney trained in and has maintained for decades. It looks like nothing from outside: a person standing still, holding a position, apparently doing very little. What is actually happening is structural and energetic work that most movement practices cannot reach, because movement lets you avoid the places that are holding.
It requires no equipment, no floor space to speak of, and no particular fitness level to begin. It requires consistency, which is the part people find hard.
What instruction involves
- Setting a posture that is correct for your structure, which is the part you cannot get from a video
- A realistic starting duration, and how to extend it without forcing
- What the uncomfortable sensations mean, and which ones to work through versus back off from
- How to fold the practice into a day so it survives past week three
- Where it connects to the rest of what you are working on
Why Rodney teaches it
He came to this work as a boy who was told he would not live past ten and should not be active. Martial arts at around eleven was the beginning of proving otherwise. The Eastern disciplines he went on to study — Zhan Zhuang Qigong, Yang style Tai Chi, Aikido, Kriya Yoga, Pranic Healing — were chosen over years and under seven master teachers, partly for their documented track record and partly because they worked on him.
Teaching the self-practice end of it is not an add-on. Client empowerment is one of the stated goals of the practice: the point is that you can assess and restore yourself, not that you need a practitioner forever.
Instruction and sessions
Qigong instruction can be part of ongoing sessions, a focus of a multi-day intensive, or a component of group work. It works in person in Sun Valley and, for refinement once a posture is set, by video.
Last reviewed September 16, 2026 by Rodney Blount.