The Tai Chi Book: Refining and Enjoying a Lifetime of Practice
Language: English
Published by YMAA Publication Center, 1998
- Softcover
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Designed for students who've learned the basic Tai Chi form, this book tells how to reach the next level of practice, gain a better understanding of the art, and achieve remarkable vitality.
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- Title
- The Tai Chi Book: Refining and Enjoying a Lifetime of Practice
- Author
- Robert Chuckrow
- Publisher
- YMAA Publication Center
- Publication year
- 1998
- Condition
- Fair
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1886969647
- ISBN 13
- 9781886969643
How to Get the Most from Your Tai Chi Practice
The Tai Chi Book is a detailed guide for students who've learned a Tai Chi form and want to know more. It also introduces beginners to the principles behind great Tai Chi, and answers common questions that all of us have.
The Tai Chi Book shows you how to use Tai Chi to gain strength in your bones, muscles and vital organs, how to improve your balance and flexibility, and how to achieve remarkable vitality.
The author also introduces complex elements of Tai Chi, including ways to develop the relaxed strength known as sung, how to cultivate and feel Chi, how to train mindfulness, and a helpful chapter on being a student.
In addition, the author explores the debate over Tai Chi breathing patterns, explains in detail proper body alignment, and tells why Pushing Hands is more important than you might think.
The Tai Chi Book is your guide to the fullest health benefits of Tai Chi and to higher levels of skill and ability.
- Like two books in one, basic and advanced Tai Chi training.
- Find out how to choose and relate to a teacher.
- Develop remarkable vitality and longevity.
- Includes the Cheng Man-ch'ing short form.
- More than one hundred photos and illustrations.
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About the Author
Robert Chuckrow has been a Taiji practitioner since 1970 and has studied Taiji under the late Cheng Man-ch'ing, William C. C. Chen, and Harvey I. Sober. He has studied I Liq Ch'uan with Sam Chin Fan-siong, Ninjutsu with Kevin Harrington, Kinetic Awareness with Elaine Summers, and Healing and Re-evaluation with Alice Holtman. He has taught Taiji extensively and has written four other books: The Tai Chi Book, Historical Tuning of Keyboard Instruments, The Intelligent Dieter's Guide, and Tai Chi Walking. The Tai Chi Book was a finalist in the 1999 Independent Publisher Book Awards as "among the three best books in the health/medicine category."
Chuckrow is certified as a master teacher of Kinetic Awareness, has a Ph.D. in experimental physics from New York University, and has taught Physics at New York University, The Cooper Union, and The Fieldston School in Riverdale, New York. He currently teaches Taiji in Westchester, NY.
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