Taoist Energy Arts [DVD]

Warrior-Healer-Priest

Bruce Frantzis embodies the Warrior-Healer-Priest tradition. In Taoist Energy Arts, Bruce describes and demonstrates the key principles of tai chi, qigong, hsing-i, bagua, and tui na bodywork, covering the health, self-defense and meditation aspects of all the energy arts.

Chi Practices for Health

People with various health problems including chronic fatigue and Parkinson's disease, explain how practicing qigong and tai chi benefits them even though they struggle with illness. 

Fa Jin

Bruce Frantzis demonstrates 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

Frantzis demonstrates Eight Drunken Immortals, as seen in the Jackie Chan movie, Drunken Master.  Reeling, falling and other drunken movements are used to repel several opponents at a time.

Life Transformation for Prisoners

Prisoners with life sentences tell how Bruce's teaching of qigong practices have transformed their lives and kept them healthier and calmer than other prisoners.  In a moving testimony, a prisoner confesses that if he had learned these energy arts techniques earlier, he would not have ended up in prison.

Archival Footage of Liu Hung Chieh

In rare, archival footage from Beijing, Bruce's main teacher, Taoist Lineageⁱ Master Liu Hung Chieh, demonstrates bagua, Wu style tai chi and Push Handsⁱ.

Produced and directed by Emmy-award-winning videographer Matthew Sneddon, this overview of Bruce Frantzis' life and teaching as a martial artist, chi master, Taoist priest and energetic healer is a fascinating portrait.

Duration:  57 min.