Bruce Kumar Frantzis has written this book as an introduction for martial arts practitioners to the internal arts of Tai Chi, Hsing-I and Ba Gua, which are not usually seen as fighting arts. The book is organized around chapter-by-chapter profiles of Oriental masters who taught Frantzis - including Cheng Man-ch'ing ad Morihei Ueshiba. Frantzis ...
AWAKENING INTO YOUR BEING provides new insights into how people can rediscover deeper levels of their inner being and reconnect and integrate themselves, both internally and within their environment. Energy practices and breathing exercises help release stress, calm the mind, heal diseases and dissolve obstacles to inner peace. The exercises are ...
THE GREAT STILLNESS is Volume 2 in The Water Method of Taoist Mediation series. The big challenge in the preparatory phase of Taoist meditation is learning to concentrate on what you are doing for an extended time without becoming distracted. One of the best ways to achieve relaxed concentration is through Taoist breathing exercises. These form ...
According to Time Magazine, tai chi is "the perfect exercise." Tai chi's incredible powers are reflected in its popularity. Over 200 million practitioners worldwide--young, old, athletic, sedentary, chronically ill, overweight--are using tai chi's slow, graceful movements as a potent preventative health care practice to regain control of their ...
Frantzis spent over 40 years studying internal martial arts and is the first Westerner to be recognized as a Master of Tai Chi in China. In this book he shares his knowledge of this powerful energy art and shows how it works on the health of the body and mind. Tai Chi was originally developed as an effective martial art, but now people all over ...
This is the first volume of a two-book series that peels away the metaphors and explains the living tradition of Taoist meditation, which is little known or taught in the West. Most of what people know about Taoism comes from philosophical texts such as the I-Ching or the Tao Te Ching by Lao Tse. However, outside China virtually nothing is known ...
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