The Inner Structure of Tai Chi or Accepting Your Power to Heal

The Inner Structure of Tai Chi: Mastering the Classic Forms of Tai Chi Chi Kung

Author: Mantak Chia

TAI CHI / MARTIAL ARTS

Taoist adepts developed tai chi as both a martial art and a way to cultivate the physical body, energy body, and spirit body. Like all Taoist exercises, its main purpose is to form a connection to the basic energy that is the foundation of all life: chi. Until the beginning of the twentieth century, tai chi was considered a secret practice that was passed down only within a closely knit structure of family and loyal disciples. Despite its widespread growth in popularity as a martial art and health exercise, many of its underlying internal practices remain unknown.

The Inner Structure of Tai Chi explores the deep, internal work necessary for the effective practice of tai chi. Designed for practitioners at every level, the book contains step-by-step illustrated instructions for mastering the 13 forms of early Yang-style tai chi, also known as Tai Chi Chi Kung. The authors demonstrate the relationship of the inner structure of tai chi to the absorption, transformation, and circulation of the three forces that animate all life--the Universal force, the Cosmic force, and the Earth force--revealing the principles and practices necessary to receive the full spectrum of physical, psychological, and spiritual benefits that tai chi can bring.

A student of several Taoist masters, MANTAK CHIA founded the Universal Healing Tao System in 1979 and has taught tens of thousands of students from all over the world. He tours the United States annually, giving workshops and lectures. He is the director of the Tai Garden Integrative Medicine Health Spa and Resort training center and the Universal Healing Tao training center in northernThailand and is the author of twenty-five books, including the bestselling The Multi-Orgasmic Man.

JUAN LI is a senior Universal Tao instructor who began his studies with Mantak Chia in 1982 and now presents these teachings throughout Western Europr. He lives in Spain.

A student of several Taoist masters, Mantak Chia founded the Healing Tao System in North America in 1979 and developed it worldwide as European Tao Yoga and Universal Healing Tao. He has taught and certified tens of thousands of students and instructors from all over the world and tours the United States annually, giving workshops and lectures. He is the director of the Tao Garden Health Spa and the Universal Healing Tao training center in northern Thailand and is the author of thirty-one books, including Inner Smile, Cosmic Fusion, Sexual Reflexology, and the bestselling The Multi-Orgasmic Man.

Juan Li is a senior Universal Tao instructor who began his studies with Mantak Chia in 1982 and now presents these teachings throughout Western Europe. He lives in Spain.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments

Putting Tai Chi Chi Kung into Practice

Foreword

Preface

Introduction

1   The Origins of Tai Chi Chi Kung

2   Why Practice Tai Chi Chi Kung?

3   Basic Principles of Tai Chi Chi Kung

4   Warm-Up Exercises and Preparation

5   Tai Chi Chi Kung Thirteen Movement Form

6   Sequence for Home Practice

7   Yin/Yang and Inner Smile Form

8   Rooting and Grounding: Connecting with the Earth

9   Transferring Chi Through the Body

10  Activating the Tendons

11  Tan Tien Form

12  Healing Form: Connecting the Organs with the Five Directions

13  Skin- and Bone-Breathing Form

14  Integrated Structure Form

15  Steel Wrapped in Cotton: Martial Arts Applications

16  Dance of the Tao

Appendix 1   Energetic Preparations for Tai Chi Chi Kung

Appendix 2   Tai Chi Physiology

Bibliography

About the Authors

The Universal Tao System and Training Center

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Accepting Your Power to Heal: The Personal Practice of Therapeutic Touch

Author: Dolores K Krieger

Since 1972, Dolores Krieger has taught Therapeutic Touch to thousands of health professionals around the world. In Accepting Your Power to Heal, she now shows all of us how to master this powerful energetic healing practice. Krieger points out that while this is not a "miracle cure," Therapeutic Touch has proven to be safe and helpful in the treatment of a variety of conditions from PMS, headaches, burns, and bone fractures to asthma, reproductive problems, cancer, and AIDS. She encourages us to acknowledge our own innate healing abilities and provides experiential exercises to teach us the basic Therapeutic Touch techniques. The miracle, if there is one, is that we can all participate in the healing process and help our friends, partners, families, and even pets to feel better.