Opening the Energy Gates of Your Body [Book]

Energy Gates Qigongⁱ enables you to work on mastery of the alignments and exercises will give you a solid foundation to pursue other internal arts such as tai chi.

Completely revised and expanded, this seminal book has new chapters on breathing, sinking the chi and the 16-part neigongⁱ system.  Learn the fundamental principles of qigoing theory as it is taught in China and experience its practical applications for health, longevity, stress reduction and improving the mind/body connection. 

Core exercises of Opening the Energy Gates Qigong include fundamental standing techniques, Cloud Hands, Three Swings and the Spine Stretch.  Guidelines for practice are also included, along with advice on what to look for in a good teacher.

A Complete System of Personal Development

Opening the Energy Gates Qigong exercises are uniquely designed to:

• Make your mind as quiet and stable as possible
• Open your spine and joints to increase flexibility, agility and speed
• Raise the efficiency of your internal organs
• Bring all internal connections among various body parts and your mind into unison
• Promote healing and prevent injuries by increasing your awareness of your body's limitations on any given day

Detailed illustrations throughout the book make it easy to acquire the correct alignments for each exercise in the comfort of your own home.  When the core exercises of  Energy Gates Qigong are practiced for an extended length of time, you will develop a relaxed power and flexibility that is unobtainable in the average person.

Excerpt from Opening the Energy Gates of Your Body Qigong:

Most people think that aerobic exercise is necessary to strengthen the heart and lungs.  While aerobic exercise does accomplish this, so does qigong.  Slow, deep, regular breathing and energy movement combine to work oxygen deeper into the tissues than regular exercise. 

One case in point:  a qigong student who holds a normal, sedentary office job and engages in almost no aerobic activity has a brother who is a well-known mountaineer.  Invited to climb a mountain in Colorado with his brother, he imagined himself gasping for air as his brother marched ahead, but, much to his surprise, he found that his capacity for physical activity, in terms of breath, had actually come to surpass that of his brother, who engaged in aerobic activity continuously.