Publisher's Synopsis
Gold Winner - 2011 IP's Living Now Awards
Gold Winner - 2011 eLit Award
Finalist - 2011 Eric Hoffer Award
Finalist - 2011 USA Best Book Award
This book is an in-depth guide for beginners to learn Taijiquan properly. It offers a general plan for practicing Taijiquan, and then goes into great depth to present enough content for proper learning.
You will learn:
- What Taijiquan is
- How to practice
- The history of Taijiquan
- Taijiquan postures
- About Qi and Qigong
- Main Fundamental stances
- Categories of Qigong
- Taiji qigong
- Qigong training theory
- Qigong and Taijiquan
- Taijiquan thirteen postures (eight doors and five stepping)
- The traditional Yang Style Taijiquan Long Form
This REVISED EDITION has a new easy-to-follow layout, each movement presented in a series of large photographs with clear same-page instructions for each Taiji posture. This book is sure to advance your practice and save you much time and energy.