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Miles Kempton Personal Trainer & Qigong Teacher ☯️
Founder of Five Element Fitness:
An advanced holistic training platform for body, mind & energy transformation.

25/10/2026

🌿 QIGONG, NEIGONG & MEDITATION RETREAT

A weekend to step away from the noise of everyday life, reconnect with yourself and explore your own energy through Qigong, Neigong, Tai Chi and meditation.

Join us at the beautiful Upminster Sanctuary for a 2-day immersive retreat designed to help you slow down, develop greater internal awareness and discover practices you can take into everyday life.

📍 Upminster Sanctuary — November 21st & 22nd
🕘 09:00–17:00 both days
💰 £140 for the full weekend

Across the weekend you’ll experience:

☯️ Understanding Qi & energy cultivation
☯️ Qigong forms & Tai Chi
☯️ Meditation & developing internal awareness
☯️ Breathwork — Eastern & Western approaches
☯️ Non-dual philosophy & spiritual teachings
☯️ Sound healing
☯️ Traditional Chinese tea tasting

More than just a weekend of relaxation.

The intention is not simply to switch off for two days, but to learn how to develop your own personal practice.

Through movement, stillness, breath and awareness, we’ll explore practical methods to calm the nervous system, cultivate energy, quieten the mind and develop a deeper connection with ourselves.

Whether you’re completely new to these practices or already have experience, the weekend offers an opportunity to explore them in greater depth.

✨ Also included:

Two follow-up sessions to help you integrate what you’ve learned, alongside take-home materials covering the methods and practices explored throughout the weekend.

Places are limited to keep the experience personal and allow time for individual guidance and questions.

🌙 Interested in joining us?

DM “RETREAT” to reserve your place or receive the full details.

FOLLOWING THE MOON | QIGONG • NEIGONG • MEDITATION

25/10/2026

I’m getting a little tired of the constant niche marketing around strength training.

“Is strength training good for menopause?”

Well, is brushing your teeth good for menopause? 😂

Of course it is!

But brushing your teeth isn’t a menopause-specific activity. It’s something that’s generally beneficial for humans.

And strength training is much the same.

We seem to have reached a point where every age group, hormonal change or stage of life needs its own specially marketed version of exercise.

But the fundamentals of human physiology haven’t suddenly changed.

Strength training is good for humans. Full stop.

It helps preserve and develop muscle mass, improve strength, support bone health, maintain physical function and improve metabolic health.

These benefits matter whether you’re 25, 45, 65, male or female.

Now, of course, menopause brings physiological changes that can make certain benefits of strength training particularly relevant, especially around bone density, muscle mass and body composition.

And programming should always reflect the individual’s needs, capabilities, recovery and circumstances.

But that’s good coaching, not a revolutionary new training method.

We don’t need to keep reinventing exercise for every demographic.

We need to understand the individual, apply sound training principles and encourage people to build strength throughout their lives.

Because the best time to start building and maintaining strength isn’t when you reach menopause.

It’s decades before. And the next best time is now.

25/10/2026

🌙 QIGONG TEACHER CERTIFICATION

Spaces are opening for the next cohort of my one-to-two-year Qigong Teacher Training & Certification Programme.

This is an immersive training for those who want to take their own Qigong practice much deeper — and for those who feel called to eventually teach and share the practice with others.

Over the year we’ll explore some of the most exceptional Qigong & Neigong practices, alongside the history, philosophy and theory that sits behind them — developing not only your Qi sensitivity and personal practice, but your understanding and ability to confidently teach others.

The training includes:

☯️ Full downloadable video curriculum
☯️ Training manuals & workbooks
☯️ Regular live online classes
☯️ Full-day in-person training throughout the year
☯️ Personal practice & development
☯️ Teaching methodology & practice
☯️ Practical assessments & examinations
☯️ Ongoing guidance and feedback

Importantly, certification isn’t simply awarded for attendance.

Students will be required to complete practical and theoretical examinations and demonstrate proficiency in the practices, principles and teaching methods covered throughout the year.

On successful completion, students will receive:

Qigong Teacher Certification — Level 1

For those wanting to continue further, Level 1 also provides the pathway into a second year of study and the Advanced Teacher Qualification — Level 2.

Level 2 is about spending another year deepening your practice and going further into your energetic cultivation, working with more refined methods and developing your understanding, proficiency and teaching practice.

Places will be limited to keep the training personal and allow me to work closely with each student.

Next intake January 2027 - if you’d like more information DM me **“QIGONG” **to book a zoom chat to discuss.

FOLLOWING THE MOON | QIGONG • NEIGONG • MEDITATION

25/10/2026

Chrononutrition — does when you eat matter as much as what you eat?

Chrononutrition explores how the timing of our meals interacts with our circadian rhythms, metabolism, appetite and overall health.

It’s an interesting and developing area of nutritional science, but there’s something we mustn’t overlook.

Human behaviour.

Unless someone is experiencing significant pain, illness or another compelling reason to change, asking them to completely overhaul their eating habits can meet considerable resistance.

Breakfast is a perfect example.

For some people, what they eat in the morning or whether they eat at all, is a deeply conditioned behaviour developed over decades.

Trying to force a completely different routine simply because research suggests a potential benefit may create more resistance than progress.

The best nutritional strategy is one that works physiologically AND psychologically.

Where I find meal timing particularly useful is in making practical adjustments to someone’s existing lifestyle.

For example:

• Timing meals around training to support performance and recovery.

• Adjusting the gaps between meals to better manage hunger and satiety.

• Moving meals slightly earlier or later to reduce habitual snacking.

• Creating a more consistent eating routine that fits someone’s working day.

• Exploring whether meal timing could improve energy, appetite regulation and sleep.

These relatively small changes can sometimes make a considerable difference without asking someone to reinvent their entire relationship with food.

Of course, food quality, total energy intake and nutritional adequacy remain fundamental.

My approach? Understand the science, understand the person, and find the point where the two can work together.

Because nutritional advice is only valuable if someone can realistically put it into practice.

25/10/2026

What do Personal Trainers and Dentists have in common? 🏋️‍♂️🦷

People willingly pay us to do something they really don’t want us to do. 😂

They book the appointment.
They know it’s good for them.
They know they’ll feel better afterwards.

But they’d still rather be somewhere else. 🤣

And somehow, we’re the bad guys when it starts hurting!

See you at your next appointment….

25/10/2026

More activity doesn’t necessarily mean better results.

One of the biggest mistakes I see people make is confusing how much they’re doing with how much progress they’re making.

They’re training regularly, attending classes, trying different workouts and generally keeping themselves busy.

But being active and training effectively towards a specific goal are two very different things.

Sometimes the missing piece isn’t another workout. It’s what happens during the other 23 hours of the day.

Your nutrition, sleep, recovery, lifestyle habits, planning and mindset can all determine whether your efforts actually produce results.

Other times, the problem is simply a lack of direction.

Too much variety, too many competing goals and not enough consistent, progressive training towards the outcome you actually want.

Your body adapts to the demands you place upon it — not simply the amount of activity you accumulate.

And while age, hormones and physiology absolutely influence how we respond to training, they’re not always the reason progress has stalled.

Before blaming your age or hormones, ask yourself:

Is my programme actually designed to produce the results I’m looking for?

Sometimes the answer isn’t to do more.

It’s to do the right things, consistently, and get the other elements of your life working with you rather than against you.

That’s the thinking behind Five Element Fitness. It’s not just about exercise. It’s about getting all five elements working together.

24/10/2026

One of the best things about autumn, winter and storms is a roaring fire 🔥

18/10/2026

To truly transform our body, mind and energy, we need to go beyond just the physical. We need to work on the mind and cultivate our internal energy too.

This is why Five Element Fitness evolved from the original three elements into five.

In a nutshell, our minds often create the obstacles that hold us back, while modern lifestyles diminish our energy.

When our mindset and energy are in a good place, we’re far more likely to take action and stay consistent with the other elements: strength, movement and nutrition.

Together, the Five Elements create a more complete approach to transformation.

😂 I think I just invented a new word: “ingestation”!

If you’d like to know more about the Five Element system and how it could help you transform your body, mind and energy, DM me “Five Elements”.

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16/10/2026

We often think of the mind and body as two separate things. But are they?

In Daoism, we’re understood as one interconnected organism.

Modern science explores something similar through embodied cognition and interoception, our awareness of what’s happening inside the body.

Take anxiety. Racing thoughts, increased heart rate, altered breathing and muscular tension.

Where exactly is the anxiety? In the mind or the body?

Perhaps it’s a pattern occurring throughout the whole organism.

This is what makes Qigong so interesting. We’re not simply using the body to calm the mind. We’re working with the whole human being.

Mind and body are different aspects of one living process.

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15/10/2026

Strength is one thing. Being able to use it is another.

We often measure strength by how much weight someone can lift.

But what about how well they can move?

Can you squat comfortably? Get down to the floor and back up again? Move through your hips, knees and ankles without feeling restricted?

A deep squat is a wonderful example of strength and mobility working together.

💪 Strength: The muscles of the legs and hips produce and control force throughout the movement.

🦴 Mobility: The ankles, knees and hips need sufficient freedom of movement to allow the body to descend comfortably.

🧠 Coordination: The nervous system coordinates multiple joints and muscles to maintain balance and control.

⚖️ Stability: Being able to control your body through a larger range of motion requires more than simply having flexible muscles.

And here’s the important part.

Mobility without strength can leave us unable to control the ranges we have. Strength without sufficient mobility can limit how we use it.

The two should develop together.

Not everyone needs to squat incredibly deep, and individual anatomy will influence what’s comfortable. But maintaining the ability to move well, with strength and control, is something worth investing in.

Because ultimately, training isn’t just about what you can do in the gym.

It’s about preserving your freedom and functionality outside it.

Five Element Fitness
Body • Mind • Energy

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