Taoist Energy Arts [DVD]

This multidimensional overview of Bruce Frantzis' life and teaching as a martial artist, healer and Taoist Lineage Master was produced and directed by Emmy-award-winning videographer Matthew Sneddon.

Warrior-Healer-Priest

The documentary shows how Bruce Frantzis embodies the Warrior-Healer-Priest tradition. Bruce explains and demonstrates the key principles of Tai Chi, Chi Gung, Hsing-I, Ba Gua, and Tui na bodywork, covering the health, self-defense and meditation aspects of these arts.

Chi Practices for Health

People with various health problems, including chronic fatigue and Parkinson disease, describe what practicing chi gung and tai chi did for them.

Fa jin

There is footage of Bruce Frantzis demonstrating the rarely seen Internal martial arts technique of fa jin, which shows how a human being can use chi so that a seemingly light touch moves someone in space as easily as a gust of wind blows dust away.

Eight Drunken Immortals

He also demonstrates Eight Drunken Immortals, as seen in the Jackie Chan movie, Drunken Master. Bruce Frantzis uses reeling, falling, drunken movements to repel several opponents.

Life Transformed for Prisoners

Prisoners sentenced to life tell how Bruce?s teaching of chi gung transformed their lives in prison and kept them healthy and calmer while other prisoners got virus after virus. In a moving testimony, one lifer says that if he had learned these techniques earlier, he would not have ended up in prison.

Archival Footage of Liu Hung Chieh

Rare archival footage from Beijing, China shows Bruce's main teacher, Taoist Lineage Master Liu Hung Chieh, doing ba gua, Wu Style tai chi and Push Hands.

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57 Minutes
Format: DVD Produced by B. K. Frantzis Energy Arts
Copyright B. K. Frantzis, 1996, 2005

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