Chi Kung: Training for Life, Health, and Energy

Chi Kung: Training for Life, Health, and Energy, Essential Instruction from Wu Style Tai Chi Chuan, by Gerald A. Sharp and Patricia Kessler

Wirebound, Chipboard Cover, 130 pp. Over 300 illustrations.

This book covers the entire Chi Kung practice of the Wu Style T'ai Chi system as founded and developed by Wu Chuan You and Wu Jianquan. It's ideally best joined with the 3-Part Video Series "Chi Kung of the Wu Style: Eight Methods & Five Elements, and is available on our Specials page as a book and video combo at a discount.

However, this book can, literally, stand on its own, the unique design allows it to do just that, as it can be folded back and stood up, thereby allowing a practitioner to follow along with the individual postures. We kind of think of it as an "easel book."

The Table of Contents are as follows:

Part I: About this Book

About the Authors

Introduction to Chi Kung

Guidelines for Practice

A Few Basics

Stances, Hand Positions

Preparation, Opening, Closing

Principal Meridians and Acupoints

Part II: The Eight Methods

Gathering

Circulating

Guiding

Balancing

Spiraling

Blending

Synthesizing

Storing

Part III: The Five Elements

Metal

Wood

Water

Fire

Earth

Part IV: Easy Practice Guide

The Eight Methods

The Five Elements

Part V: Chi Flow

Five Elements Chi Kung

Chi Flow in Five Elements

Concluding Remarks