Yan Lei Press Instant Health: The Shaolin Qigong Workout for Longevity

Très bon guide pour passer a un autre niveau.

Una gran oportunidad poder tener este conocimiento al alcance

Très beau livre

Book is beautiful! The explanations are perfect. But you certainly need a teacher or at least a dvd to complement this. Nevertheless you can try learning a few stances from the book. Worth the buy!

This book contains the Eight Treasures - the 8 best moves for energy restoration and clearing the mind. It also contains the basic stances for Shaolin Kung Fu which can help increase leg strength and balance, and a few of them are used in the Eight Treasures.The book also contains some basic Buddhist philosophy surrounding Qi Gong and Kung Fu, and an introduction to Shifu Yan Lei and his road to the Shaolin Temple. It made for a more interesting read than I had expected, and I say this because I purchased it purely for the fitness side of it.The pictures and instructions complement eachother perfectly and it's very easy to follow. I did, however, purchase his Qi Gong Volume 1 DVD first, so I did know my way vaguely around the moves.I was a little disappointed that it didn't include anything from the 2nd and 3rd DVDs, but the book has proven to be more valuable than I had initially thought when I discovered the lack of extra content, believe it or not.The pictures themselves are wonderful and the layout of the book is clear, concise, tidy but also quite pretty. I have a number of fitness and exercise books but the only one I've ever found to be actually usable was Cassey Ho's 'Hot Body Year Round' - this book, its subject matter somewhat different, is only the second fitness book that I've found usable.I take it away with me when I won't be able to use the DVD - the movements of the Eight Treasures are not complicated, but I have a tendancy to muddle them up or forget them, so having a visual representation that I can break out in a park or hotel room helps a lot. I like to try to do things correctly, and the sequence of movements have surely been put together as they have for a reason, and I don't wish to deviate. Call me highly strung, but we all have our own ways of doing things.But, while this book is brilliant for me, I think many people would benefit more from the DVD. Seeing the movements in motion can be easier to follow than pictures. Seeing how heavily or softly to land, seeing how slowly to turn, even getting an idea of how deeply to breathe, it helps to see the movements performed. In short, while the book may not be for everyone, it IS easy to follow, it's also quite relaxing to read, and the pictures are full-colour and beautifully shot.