Capabilities drawn from Chinese martial arts, applied to everyday life
Practice changes people
The Practice Hall helps you cultivate composure, attention, coordinated movement, judgment and resilience for everyday life, through a few minutes of daily attentive practice.
It begins with grounding, a steadier, more settled quality, and the deeper capabilities develop from there.
First felt in practice, then more available when you need them.
The Practice Hall app
Practise on your phone
Free, works offline, no app store.
Open the app
iPhone
In Safari, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen.
Android
In Chrome, tap the ⋮ menu, then Add to Home screen (or Install app).
Once added, it opens from your home screen like any app and runs offline.
What is the practice hall?
Everyday life is the practice hall. Kung fu, in its deeper sense, means skill developed through sustained, patient effort. The Practice Hall takes that discipline, long refined in Chinese martial arts, and turns it toward everyday life: standing steady under pressure, listening before you respond, meeting a difficult conversation without losing your balance.
Who are you practising to become?
1
Stand
Stand long enough to feel that standing is something you are doing.
Begin: the First Seven Days
Seven short practices over seven days, beginning on the ground. Open to anyone, no experience needed.
Start the First Seven Days
What consistent practice may develop
After one month: Notice and settle
Greater awareness of posture, breathing, support and unnecessary tension, and a growing ability to pause, settle and return to the body.
After three months: Attend and regulate
A more reliable capacity to recover attention, organise effort and hold composure as distraction or pressure increases.
After six months: Coordinate and adapt
More connected movement, finer sensitivity to inner and outer signals, and greater choice in how you respond as circumstances change.
These are developmental markers rather than promises. How far and fast they develop depends on consistency, attention and your starting point. Every practice offers something to notice from the very first day.
A year of small practices for daily life, in twelve volumes, forming a library that grows over time. It begins with Volume 1: The Ground.
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