The Healing Promise of Qi: Creating Extraordinary Wellness Through Qigong and Tai Chi

Roger Jahnke

McGraw Hill Professional, Mar 22, 2002 - Health & Fitness - 316 pages

Unlocks the secrets of one of the most powerful of Chinese healing arts

Developed over millennia in China, qigong (literally, life force + mastery, or refinement) is a set of techniques used to increase your vitality, longevity, and sexual potency as well as achieve and maintain optimal health and inner peace. In the groundbreaking The Healing Promise of Qi, Dr. Roger Jahnke, internationally respected doctor of Chinese medicine and author of the bestselling The Healer Within, clearly and simply explains the concepts of qigong in practical terms.

With the help of 125 superbly rendered illustrations, he describes a multitude of simple qigong tools, practices, and techniques for accessing and utilizing the incredible power of qi. Rather than focus on a particular form of qigong, Dr. Jahnke presents concise, easy-to-follow techniques from among the more than 25 traditional and modern forms that he has mastered and taught to thousands of people across the United States and Canada.

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User Review  - thehatinthecat - LibraryThing

The Healing Promise of Qi is a wonderful book that provides dedicated and insightful information on Qigong, and how to start a Qigong practices of your own. Roger Jahnke is a great writer and a ...

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User Review  - Self Help Specialist - Overstock.com

This book is more of a reference manual for teachers than entry level. It has the information you are looking for you just might have to be a qi jong master to know to look under flying clouds or some ...

Contents

• The Ten Phases of Cultivating and Mastering Qi: 79
• Discover Qi: 95
• Gather Qi: 103

About the author

Roger Jahnke, O.M.D., has been practicing traditional Chinese medicine for more than a quarter century. He has traveled and studied extensively throughout China and the Far East, and he was among the first to introduce the ancient Chinese healing arts to the West. He directs the Integral Institute of Tai Chi and Qigong and is the chair of the Qi cultivation department at the Santa Barbara College of Oriental Medicine. Dr. Jahnke teaches at such venues as the Esalen Institute and the Omega Institute and is the cofounder and chair of the National Qigong Association. He leads training sessions at hospitals, corporations, and community organizations and speaks internationally on self-healing, stress mastery, and the positive transformation of health care. Dr. Jahnke is a key Chinese medicine authority for numerous websites including the popular HealthWorld.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Healing Promise of Qi: Creating Extraordinary Wellness Through Qigong and Tai Chi; All Other Health
• Author: Roger Jahnke
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional, 2002
• ISBN: 0809295288, 9780809295289
• Length: 316 pages
• Subjects: Health & Fitness / Acupressure & Acupuncture; Health & Fitness / Alternative Therapies; Health & Fitness / General