It’s the first time I’m sharing my very special journey with the fox I found by the roadside last New Years Eve. She allowed me to work with her body and preserve her skin, and it’s been a sacred process in which I learned so much about the ways of Fox. Although there are - to my knowledge - no standardised Fox forms in traditional Qi Gong, Fox does appear in Taoist, shamanic and folkloric traditions. This animal is usually linked to cunning, the power of shape-shifting and walking at the boundaries. Today we’re improvising with Fox movements. We work with the sensory awareness, mobility and balance of the tail and spine, sniffing out what is right, stalk-walk, and fox ears… Does the fox live inside you?

Apologies for the grainy quality of this video. I’m teaching away from my usual Studio set up until the end of the Fire series.

We do the following movements:

Tailbone circles (fox tail spiral)

Hip circles

Dog wags tail

Fox ears & Stealth walk

Fox curled in its tail (invented by Eline)

Rumbling Mountain (on all fours)

Downward dog with heel push and knee bend

Kitsune Qi ball

Caressing the fox pelt (really Parting the horse’s mane)

Centring