Simple Chi Kung: Exercises for Awakening the Life-Force Energy

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* Provides step-by-step illustrated instructions for a complete yet easy daily Chi Kung routine * Perfect for beginners and ideal as a warm-up to more advanced practices * Clears physical and mental stress, stimulates healing and disease prevention, detoxifies the body, releases tensions, improves circulation and works to develop flexibility, strength, resiliency, and suppleness Within every person there is a place full of energy, health and happiness. Practising Chi Kung allows us to visit this place of inner vitality and harmony, clearing physical and mental stress, detoxifying the body and mind and helping us return to our natural state of abundant health, calmness and mental clarity. An ideal complement to the treatment of chronic pain, asthma, diabetes, high blood pressure, headaches and even heart disease and cancer, Chi Kung is a way to take control of your physical, mental and spiritual health and live a long and healthy life. In SIMPLE CHI KUNG, Taoist master, Mantak Chia, distills thousands of Chi Kung practices into one simple daily routine perfect for beginners and ideal as a warm-up to more advanced practices. Designed to relax our muscles, loosen the joints, improve circulation and develop flexibility, strength, resiliency and suppleness, the gentle, flowing movements of Chi Kung mirror the movements of nature and help practitioners connect to their own inner flow of chi, clearing blockages and stagnation in our life-force energy and tapping in to our natural powers of healing and disease prevention. Walking readers step-by-step through each exercise, from movement work with the knees, hips and spine to internal energy work through controlled breathing, Master Chia explains how daily practice of Chi Kung cultivates life-force energy, a stronger immune system, emotional balance and spiritual awareness, transforming the patterns and assumptions that limit our body and mind as well as enhancing our connection to nature and the universe.

Mantak Chia, world-famous Inner Alchemy and Chi Kung master, founded the Universal Healing Tao System in 1979. He has taught and certified tens of thousands of students and instructors all over the world and is the author of 40 books, including Chi Self-Massage and the bestselling The Multi-Orgasmic Man. Lee Holden is an instructor in meditation, Tai Chi, and Chi Kung who teaches workshops in the United States, Europe, and Asia. The author of several books on Chi Kung, he lives in the southern San Francisco Bay area.

"I'm delighted that he and Mr. Holden have created this easy-to-learn, concise Chi Kung routine for daily practice. It serves as both a great starter course and an even better daily maintenance ritual. Thank you Master Chia!" Anna Jedrziewski, Innaworks, January 2012 "Simple Chi Kung: Exercises for Awakening the Life-Force Energy comes from a Taoist master and senior instructor who blend knowledge on thousands of Chi Kung practices into one easy daily routine perfect for beginners." James A. Cox, Midwest Book Review April 2012