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

by Mantak Chia, Lee Holden

Distills the many different Chi Kung practices into one simple daily routine for abundant health, calmness, and mental clarity

• 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. Practicing 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.

Genres: Health

144 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2011

About the author

Mantak Chia is a Taoist Master. He is best known for teaching his Taoist practices under the names of Healing Tao, Tao Yoga, Universal Healing Tao System and Chi Kung. Throughout decades of teaching, he has run numerous workshops, written a series of books, and published a number of training videos. For this reason, some people call him an author, a teacher or a healer. He views himself primarily as a teacher, "who helps his students empower themselves through cultivation of their chi energy." (-wiki)

Reviews

[David Wu · Rating 2 out of 5]

Exercises and pictures are unintelligible and poorly described. The book looks like it's done quickly

[Jamie Grefe · Rating 5 out of 5]

The grounding/history is appreciated, and the exercises are clearly stated w/ helpful photographs.

[Sonee Singh · Rating 5 out of 5]

It’s a short read yet comprehensive. It provides the basic history and concepts of tai chi and chi kung.It also includes a practice with photos and instructions.

[Joanne Spiller · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very good and easy to understand and implement