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T'Ai Chi Combat
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Five Animal Frolics Qi Gong: Crane and Bear Exercises
: :The Five Animal Frolics Qi Gong was created by Hua Tuo. Hua Tuo was a famous physician who lived around 200AD and developed these exercises by observing nature. The five animals that he chose to pattern his exercises on are the Crane, Bear, Deer, Monkey, and Tiger. Practicing these exercises helps to harmonize the flow of internal energy in the body, strengthen the internal organs, and fortify the body. The two sets taught in this book are easy to learn and fun to practice. The Crane Frolics Qi Gong mimics ...
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Cleanse and Build Inner Qi (Qigong for Long Life)
: :II. Cleanse and Build Inner Qi. Exercises for cleansing and renewing our major organs: liver and gall bladder, heart and small intestine, spleen and stomach, lungs and large intestine, kidneys and bladder, and bone marrow. Taught by John P. Milton.
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6 Healing Movements: Qigong for Health, Strength & Longevity
: :A Qigong Book for Everyone! The perfect introduction to America's fastest growing self-healing exercise. For men and women, young and old, in-shape and out! Everywhere you look people taking care of themselves. But some are looking beyond the usual fitness regime. They want to take care of more than just their bodies they want total well-being. Many are looking to the Eastern disciplines: Yoga, Tai Chi, and Qigong. Qigong is an ancient and clinically proven mind/body fitness system for preventing and curing all manners of illnesses as well as enhancing ...
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5 Element Qigong: The 5-Minute Health and Harmony Exercise Instruction Book
: :This is an excellent how-to book on Chinese qigong with over 90 photos and simple directions. Five Element Qigong has only seven easy movements that connect and energize all the major acupuncture meridians of the body. It can be practiced in five minutes a day. Health benefits of Five Element Qigong include calming the nervous system, improving digestion and elimination, improving mobility and balance, and more. Five Element Qigong is used as a warm-up exercise by dancers, yoga instructors, body workers, construction workers, golfers, and anyone who wants to bring ...
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Embrace Tiger, Return to Mountain: The Essence of T'ai Chi
: :This is an excellent how-to book on Chinese qigong with over 90 photos and simple directions. Five Element Qigong has only seven easy movements that connect and energize all the major acupuncture meridians of the body. It can be practiced in five minutes a day. Health benefits of Five Element Qigong include calming the nervous system, improving digestion and elimination, improving mobility and balance, and more. Five Element Qigong is used as a warm-up exercise by dancers, yoga instructors, body workers, construction workers, golfers, and anyone who wants to bring ...
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Beginning Qigong
: :Qigong is an ancient Chinese system of breathing techniques and exercises that strengthen the mind, body and spirit as they balance and augment Qi or 'life force'. This volume introduces different forms of Qigong in detail through fully illustrated exercises.
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Beginning T'ai Chi
: :Beginning T'ai Chi will give you the power to enrich your life both physically and spiritually. You'll be amazed at how this simplified method of a martial art form that is more than 800 years old can augment your sense of well-being, bring you inner peace and strength, and revitalize your energies.
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How to Use T'ai Chi as a Fighting Art
: :Beginning T'ai Chi will give you the power to enrich your life both physically and spiritually. You'll be amazed at how this simplified method of a martial art form that is more than 800 years old can augment your sense of well-being, bring you inner peace and strength, and revitalize your energies.
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Breathing Spaces
: :The charismatic form of healing called qigong, which at its core involves meditative breathing exercises, achieved enormous popularity in China during the last two decades. Anthropologist Nancy N. Chen examines the cultural context of medicine and healing practices in the PRC, Taiwan, and the United States, and the pages of her book come alive with the narratives of the numerous practitioners, healers, psychiatric patients, doctors, and bureaucrats she interviewed.
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