Qi Healing: The Way to a New Mind and Body

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Summary: Chi Kung - KiKo
Review: I found this book by searching information about Kenichi Sawai, the master who brought the Taikiken to Japan, after learning it in China with the creator of the Yi Chuan style of Kung Fu. The essence of Taikiken is the same as Yi Chuan (I quan), the main development of Chi by the standing meditation (Ritsu Zen or Zhan Zhuang), and his further use in health as well as in combat.
Yayama's explanations are really good, I recomend this book for those who want to discover the inner energy in them, but a lot of work, pacience and discipline is needed.
The Yayama's method is also used in the Kenji Tokitsu school in France.

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Summary: Yet another one
Review: It is baffling to me that a supposed medical doctor could produce such a book. it is filled with the ridiculous psuedo-science and parlor tricks that plagues the Qigong community. While he admits that he was iterested in psychosomatics, he never even attempts to collaberate with the western paradigm in his explination of qi. The effect is his Qigong book is the same old magic song and dance about how it is efective and and cannot be quatified by western science.

This book does nothing to illuminate an art whos practice has recently been studied in depth and found to have many benefits. none of these scientific studies are mentioned. rather he ends the book with so-called pictures of qi. Embarassing, the fact that even today paople will belive photographic anomolies as ghosts or qi.

Pass this one by and pick up "the Body Electric" for an interesting scientific idea about energy and human regeneration or "Ki in daily life" for a good Practical guide to the practice of Qigong.