Distills the many different Chi Kung practices into one simple daily routine for abundant health, calmness, and mental clarity
- Provides step-by-step illustrated instructions for a complete yet easy daily Chi Kung routine
- Perfect for beginners and ideal as a warm-up to more advanced practices
- Clears physical and mental stress, stimulates healing and disease prevention, detoxifies the body, releases tensions, improves circulation, and works to develop flexibility, strength, resiliency, and suppleness
Within every person there is a place full of energy, health, and happiness. Practicing Chi Kung allows us to visit this place of inner vitality and harmony, clearing physical and mental stress, detoxifying the body and mind, and helping us return to our natural state of abundant health, calmness, and mental clarity. An ideal complement to the treatment of chronic pain, asthma, diabetes, high blood pressure, headaches, and even heart disease and cancer, Chi Kung is a way to take control of your physical, mental, and spiritual health and live a long and healthy life.
In "Simple Chi Kung," Taoist master Mantak Chia distills thousands of Chi Kung practices into one simple daily routine perfect for beginners and ideal as a warm-up to more advanced practices. Designed to relax our muscles, loosen the joints, improve circulation, and develop flexibility, strength, resiliency, and suppleness, the gentle, flowing movements of Chi Kung mirror the movements of nature and help practitioners connect to their own inner flow of chi, clearing blockages and stagnation in our life-force energy and tapping in to our natural powers of healing and disease prevention. Walking readers step-by-step through each exercise, from movement work with the knees, hips, and spine to internal energy work through controlled breathing, Master Chia explains how daily practice of Chi Kung cultivates life-force energy, a stronger immune system, emotional balance, and spiritual awareness, transforming the patterns and assumptions that limit our body and mind as well as enhancing our connection to nature and the universe.

A blend of Eastern movements rooted in qi gong and Western fitness, "7 Minutes of Magic" offers the perfect total workout to dramatically change your energy and fitness levels each day. In the morning, the seven-minute sequence wakes up the body with flowing movements and stretches designed to charge the muscles with energy and focus the mind for the rest of the day. In the evening, the exercises clear stress and calm the mind for sound sleep. Author Lee Holden also provides breathing techniques, nutritional tips, and advice on simple lifestyle changes throughout the day to increase vitality.
Complete with more than 125 step-by-step, black-and white photographs, variations for more targeted workouts, and additional routines for more relaxed weekends, with "7 Minutes of Magic" readers will start feeling their best today.
"By skillfully blending the ancient tenets of Eastern disciplines into our Western lifestyle, "7 Minutes of Magic" gives us the key to a long, healthy, happy life through an enjoyable and accessible fitness program."
--Nicholas Perricone, bestselling author of "7 Secrets to Health, Beauty and Longevity"