Qigong for Staying Young: A Simple Twenty-Minute Workout to Cultivate Your Vital Energy

by Shoshanna Katzman

Book Overview

Gentle movements from the ancient Chinese art of self-healing and fitness to maintain youthful health and vitality. Shoshanna Katzman introduces readers to the practice of qigong through her graceful twenty-minute program that incorporates postures, breath, sound, visualization, and self-massage. This revitalizing workout will help women of all ages maintain youthful skin, eyes, and hair; improve fitness; and renew energy. Readers can then customize...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1583331735
• ISBN13: 9781583331736
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Avery Publishing Group
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.5" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

Customer Reviews

Excellent book

Since I am pretty much a newbie to Qigong I bought a couple of DVDs and this book on the subject to learn more about it. I am pretty satisfied with the instruction in this book. The routine is well explained and the instructions about Qigong massage and insights on specific problems are excellent and very helpful.

Simply Wonderful

Qigong (Chi Kung) is a Chinese art and science that means working with and cultivating the vitality of life.This book is an outstanding method to learn this ancient and modern tradition for staying young, healthy, and in harmony with all and everything. This book's many exercises are simple and easy to understand--no unneeded verbal baggage here. Everything is clear and to the point. Yet paradoxically the book is encyclopedic in its coverage of what was previously hidden and secret. Shoshanna has studied for many years with masters and has made a vast wealth of practical knowledge available to the student. There is a DVD--same author and same title--that shows Shoshanna doing the movements, again it is magnificent.

A Must Have

"Qigong for Staying Young" has a permanent place on my night table. Shoshanna teaches us how to achieve wellness through the mindful practice of this unique form of gentle exercise. Beautifully written, this book artfully interweaves ancient Chinese medical philosophy into a modern model for understanding what health actually is. Shoshanna's own voice of wisdom and experience guides us through the chapters, providing the inspiration to achieve and maintain balance and wholeness in our lives. Over time I have studied each chapter in depth as I learned each of the exercise sets individually. Shoshanna's clear, user-friendly language enables the reader to work their way through each set with clarity and ease. Although I have read it from cover to cover, re-read it in sections and referred to it numerous times to address specific health topics, I am amazed to discover that every time I pick it up I learn something new, or deepen my understanding of a previously learned subject. Shoshanna's book is a gift from her heart and soul, rich beyond words. Those who read it will find it is a resource to be treasured.

What are you waiting for?

This book is unique among the ever growing catalogue of Qi Gong books now available. It is written by a woman who is a practitioner of of Oriental Medicine. Rarely do we see this type of book written by a medical professional with the practical experience to support what she teaches. It is written specifically for women. It was recognized early on that women have different health needs from men. Therefore treatment, including Qi gong exercises should be different. It teaches a full workout plan. Many books merely show exercises, leaving it up to you how to use them. And it includes the treatment of various disease to take your practice further and utilize Qi Gong as a personal tool. Everything one needs to get started is here. Warm up exercises, explanation of theory, a detailed 20 minute workout and enough information to last a lifetime. The treatment of symptoms spans from anxiety to weightloss with everything in between specific for women's needs. This is a great book for any woman curious about learning the ancient exercise of Qi Gong. It is perfect for any practitioner to better understand the healing process and share exercises with others. And it is perfect for anyone who wants to take their health and healing process into their own hands.

Important Contribution

This new book is an important contribution to the rapidly emerging literature on Qigong, Tai Chi, Chinese medicine, complementary and alternative medicine, etc. I found it easy to access, well written and thorough. Along with the books of Roger Jahnke and Ken Cohen, this book will help to inspire millions of people to use the simple self-healing tools developed and refined so carefully and poetically by the Chinese over thousands of years.Also check out these helpful websites:http://www.qigong4everyone.com,http://www.FeeltheQi.com,http://www.NQA.org, andhttp://www.QigongInstitute.orgQigong, it appears will play a strong role in transforming our culture of heart disease and diabetes to one of health, vitality and longevity.I am so grateful to those ancient masters of inner wisdom and nature's gifts -- and to these contemporary teachers for making these methods for Qi cultivation accessible to our society.