Chi

Author: Waysun Liao
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
ISBN: 0834823608
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 171

Book Description
An insightful introduction to the basics and benefits of chi energy, a tenet of Taoism and of popular martial arts like T’ai Chi, qigong, and more Chi is the invisible energy of life that flows in and around us throughout the universe. Used skillfully, it can have a remarkable effect on health and vitality—to the degree that you’d be tempted to call it magical, if it weren’t so completely natural. Here is a perfect introduction to chi that explains in a direct and simple way what it is and why it is essential to a healthy and vital life. It provides an easy-to-understand explanation of chi, and then helps readers recognize, develop, and strengthen their own chi through specific breathing techniques and basic exercises, all demonstrated by the author. There are many books on chi development through T’ai Chi and qigong practice, but this one goes deeper to enable you to understand the fundamental principles as you cultivate it. This book is a reference for alternative health professionals such as acupuncturists and shiatsu therapists and their patients, as well as for anyone who practices T’ai Chi, qigong, aikido, and other chi-based martial arts.

Chi Energy - Activation, Cultivation and Flow

Author: Richard E Clear
Publisher: Clear Silat Incorporated
ISBN: 9780981616704
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144

Book Description
Clear explains beginner to advanced practices regarding Chi/Qi/Ki (Life-Force) activation, cultivation, and flow that allow an individual to personally experience, build, and work with Chi energy.

ChiRunning

Author: Danny Dreyer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439164541
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 323

Book Description
The revised edition of the bestselling ChiRunning, a groundbreaking program from ultra-marathoner and nationally-known coach Danny Dreyer, that teaches you how to run faster and farther with less effort, and to prevent and heal injuries for runners of any age or fitness level. In ChiRunning, Danny and Katherine Dreyer, well-known walking and running coaches, provide powerful insight that transforms running from a high-injury sport to a body-friendly, injury-free fitness phenomenon. ChiRunning employs the deep power reserves in the core muscles, an approach found in disciplines such as yoga, Pilates, and T’ai Chi. ChiRunning enables you to develop a personalized exercise program by blending running with the powerful mind-body principles of T’ai Chi: -Get aligned: Develop great posture and reduce your potential for injury while running, and make knee pain and shin splints a thing of the past. -Engage your core: Shift the workload from your leg muscles to your core muscles, for efficiency and speed. -Add relaxation to your running: Learn to focus your mind and relax your body to increase speed and distance. -Make it a Mindful Practice: Maintain high performance and make running a mindful, enjoyable life-long practice. It’s easy to learn. Transform your running with the ten-step ChiRunning training program.

Tai Chi Fundamentals

Author: David Braga
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781877950216
Category : Exercise
Languages : en
Pages : 126

Book Description
This program & accompanying manual teach the T'ai Chi Fundamentals Program. This unique program provides a systematic approach for mastering T'ai Chi basics. An analysis of the movements as well as their clinical applications & functional benefits are provided buy a physical therapist. It is designed for healthcare professionals seeking complementary mind/body exercises for their patients.

The Chi Code

Author: Thomas S Dockstader
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578674575
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description
We're all coded with our past experiences. Sometimes that coding leads us in the right direction, but often it leads us in the wrong direction. How your life's experience, or your Chi Code, affects you is an individual thing. The concept of "Chi" comes from Chinese philosophy and means "life force". It is the life-giving, vital energy that unites body, mind and spirit and animates the body internally. This book is part memoir and part self-help book. It's here to guide you through your own journey by allowing you to see how I've healed through mine. For you to get something out of it, you have to exert some effort. Don't just sit back and read it, put these principles into practice in your life. At the end of every chapter, you'll find questions that will help you relate what you've just read to what you're personally experiencing. Write down your answers to the questions, even though I know it's easy to just gloss over them. These moments of reflection on your own reality will be valuable and will empower you to make the changes to your code necessary to realize your goals and create the life you envision for yourself. Your life is completely unique from mine, but we're the same in that we all have baggage from our past that we must deal with in the present if we want to create a different future. Reading this book, and more importantly relating it to yourself, is a positive step in the direction of bringing your past into the present. The hard truth is that you're carrying it with you either way. How you carry your experiences with you is a determining factor in whether you will live a broken and painful existence or a happy and fulfilled life. You deserve to be happy. You deserve to feel whole. You deserve to unlock your Chi Code and create the life that you've dreamed of.

Chi and Creativity

Author: Elise Dirlam Ching
Publisher: Blue Snake Books
ISBN: 1583948759
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 351

Book Description
Most people tend to idealize artists, writers, and others of the “creative class” as uniquely gifted. But the capacity to create is part of being human–whether that means writing, making art, cooking, gardening, sewing, dancing, acting, singing, or virtually any activity. In Chi and Creativity, Kaleo Ching and Elise Dirlam Ching show readers how to use a wide range of strategies to harness the energy of chi to uncover, and cultivate, that often elusive inner artist.Based on their popular workshops, the authors offer an integrative process to generate the joy, wonder, and sense of well-being necessary for artistic self-expression. Specific exercises draw on everything from acupressure and breathing techniques to Chi Kung movement and meditation. Through Chi Awareness, the body, mind, emotions, and spirit come into greater harmony. Through guided imagery, they dialogue. Through journaling, they speak. Through art, they join in creative expression of the inner discoveries along the path to greater balance and integration. Chi and Creativity is the authors’ way of sharing this magical transformative process and can be used by anyone who wants to add fuel to their creative fires.

An Orchestra of Minorities

Author: Chigozie Obioma
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0316412414
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 464

Book Description
A heartbreaking story about a Nigerian poultry farmer who sacrifices everything to win the woman he loves, by Man Booker Finalist and author of The Fishermen, Chigozie Obioma. "It is more than a superb and tragic novel; it's a historical treasure."-Boston Globe Set on the outskirts of Umuahia, Nigeria and narrated by a chi, or guardian spirit, An Orchestra of Minorities tells the story of Chinonso, a young poultry farmer whose soul is ignited when he sees a woman attempting to jump from a highway bridge. Horrified by her recklessness, Chinonso joins her on the roadside and hurls two of his prized chickens into the water below to express the severity of such a fall. The woman, Ndali, is stopped her in her tracks. Bonded by this night on the bridge, Chinonso and Ndali fall in love. But Ndali is from a wealthy family and struggles to imagine a future near a chicken coop. When her family objects to the union because he is uneducated, Chinonso sells most of his possessions to attend a college in Cyprus. But when he arrives he discovers there is no place at the school for him, and that he has been utterly duped by the young Nigerian who has made the arrangements... Penniless, homeless, and furious at a world which continues to relegate him to the sidelines, Chinonso gets further away from his dream, from Ndali and the farm he called home. Spanning continents, traversing the earth and cosmic spaces, and told by a narrator who has lived for hundreds of years, the novel is a contemporary twist of Homer's Odyssey. Written in the mythic style of the Igbo literary tradition, Chigozie Obioma weaves a heart-wrenching epic about destiny and determination.

The Complete Chi's Sweet Home 2

Author: Konami Kanata
Publisher: Vertical Comics
ISBN: 9781942993179
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The Purrfect Presentation Now collected in a larger three-volume omnibus Konami Kanata's Chi's Sweet Home is once again shattering all expectations and taking the comics industry by storm. This time The Complete Chi collects volumes four through six along with two more comics from Konami Kanata's FukuFuku: Kitten Tales series (set to debut early 2016!)

Teaching Tai Chi Effectively

Author: Paul Lam
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780975200391
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Dr Paul Lam, Family Physician and Tai Chi Master combined his traditional tai chi training with scientific research to develop a unique teaching system that will help teachers become more effective and help students enjoy and improve their tai chi. Using real life examples to illustrate his ideas, Dr Lam analyses what makes an effective teacher, what to look for in a teacher and how to find a teacher for the individual learning styles. He describes the easy to learn teaching system," Stepwise Progressive Teaching Method," t; That he has developed over the last 20 years, gives practical advice on how to format tai chi classes as well as how to teach tai chi safely. Many tai chi books have been written, but never has a Tai Chi Master written a book on how to teach Tai Chi; this is a first for the tai chi world and should be read by teacher and student alike !

Tai Chi Chuan and the Code of Life

Author: Graham Horwood
Publisher: Singing Dragon
ISBN: 1846428068
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
In Tai Chi Chuan and the Code of Life, Graham Horwood describes the various styles of Tai Chi Chuan, exploring its roots in the Chinese philosophy of Taoism as well as elaborating on the evolution it has undergone over millennia. In order to understand the energetic method of Tai Chi Chuan and Chi Kung, he highlights parallels between its source, The I Ching, and archetypal principles from both Eastern and Western philosophy and medicine. The text and diagrams show the synergy between the different cultures, and shows how they are all linked. This enables the beginner or the experienced Tai Chi practitioner to improve their understanding of Tai Chi, which will strengthen both the mind and body, opening the gateway to the inner person. Drawing on information from the Yang family's formerly secret teachings, the book explains how to build chi (energy), circulate and store it, and also includes an exclusive set of Chi Kung exercises which will augment the building, circulation and storage of chi for the healer and martial practitioner, showing the path to optimizing the practitioner's energetic and spiritual development. The exercises are accompanied by an explanation of where chi comes from and its application for the mind and body as well as the flow in the meridians. The book provides an excellent introduction to both the theory and key practices of Tai Chi Chuan for the beginner, and multi-level insights for the seasoned practitioner that will enhance his or her practice and understanding of Tai Chi Chuan.