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T’ai Chi: Relax into Raw Power

In This Part

Part 1 explains why a simple, easy-to-do, 2,000-year-old Chinese martial art is the most popular exercise in the world today and is practiced in corporations, hospitals, living rooms, and backyards just like yours around the world.

If you want to find a calm center in the middle of life’s storm of change while also toning your muscles and healing your mind and body, T’ai Chi and QiGong are just what the doctor ordered—literally. Ask your doctor! Whether you seek a simple, easy-to-do exercise, a stress-management tool, or a profoundly healthy philosophy of life, T’ai Chi may just be what you’ve been looking for.

This edition’s new CIG Web Video Support webpages contain video exhibitions that bring this book’s richly detailed illustrations and written instructions to life! Throughout many parts of the book you will be directed to video links, enabling you to see the text explanations in action. You will happily discover that this book’s triangular approach of illustrated graphics, and text explanations, coupled with video support, offers an unequaled, easygoing user-friendly approach to T’ai Chi instruction. Some video nodes include special effects enabling you to see “inside the body,” giving this book an unequaled and profound “internal” approach to the internal-energy arts of T’ai Chi and QiGong.