Customer Reviews

Gentle Tai Chi - Meditation in Motion [VHS]

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I HAVE WATCHED A DOZEN OR MORE VIDEOS ON THIS SUBJECT AND LIKED THIS ONE THE BEST FOR MY PHYSICAL BEING. IT WAS EASY TO FOLLOW, DOWN TO EART AND HAD MANY OF THE BEGINNING TAI CHI MOVES I ALREADY KNEW. I DID NOT GET THE FEELING THAT I NEEDED TO BE AN EXPERT IN ORDER TO DO THESE MOVES AS I HAVE FELT WATCHING AND USING OTHER TAI CHI VIDEOS.

I can only rave about this wonderful guide to tranquility/excercise. I have enjoyed learning Tai Chi with my partner and we have actually woke early during the warm months just to do our Tai Chi as the sun rose. What a great way to start the day! Had a stressful day? Just pop in the video and stretch your strss away!

I have severe spine and hip problems, and Tai Chi was recommended by my physician. After some research, I decided this sounded like the best introduction -- especially considering my physical limitations. It is perfect in every way, with gentle routines, easy to understand and I'm already feeling the benefits in my flexibility, endurance, balance. It also provides a general all-around good feeling.

It's particularly nice that there are two routines offered on the tape, one for standing and one for sitting. Due to my physical problems with my hip, I can't stand but all the benefits are coming to me with just the sitting down routine. There isn't anything on the tape I can't do sitting down.

My husband is also doing the routines -- he does the standing ones while I do the sitting ones. He has a problem with neck pain and limitation of movement in that area and has seen chiropractors for this for some time. The chiropractic has helped some, but this tape has provided so much more flexibility and help with his pain that he now is only doing the Tai Chi.

My husband was quite sceptical of Tai Chi and reluctant to try it, but he's amazed and now it's a part of our daily routine and nice to share together.

I highly recommend this tape for anyone who is either a beginner or who has any type of physical limitations. We plan to move on to more advanced techniques at some point; but, without this tape as a foundation, we probably would never have realized how beneficial Tai Chi could be for us.

This video is gentle on my joints. I get to exercise without hurting myself. I also have had back pain off and on for years. This is helping my pain. I was told by my doctor to exercise but I don't like to sweat. I recommend this video for anyone who hasn't exercised in a long time. Its easy to follow.

I have seen some tai chi videos that are hard to follow but this one is easy to understand and follow. I get all the benefits of Tai chi without having to study it for years. If you want a tai chi workout but don't have the time to spend hours on learning it in depth, this is the video for you. It has a seated version of the workout at the end of the tape but I can still stand when I exercise.

For a beginner in Tai Chi, this was exceptionally good beause the instructions, examples and terminology were easy to understand and follow. The setting for the "class" was appropriate and the music was soothing. The two assistants (or students, I don't know which) were a man who was not especially graceful and an older woman. This showed the viewer that one does not have to be a dancer to perform Tai Chi.

As the fitness director for a group of retirement communities, I've based a whole class series on this video. In the last year many of our residents have seen tremendous improvement in strength, balance and endurance. I recently increased the length of the class to keep them challenged. The instructions are clear, concise and easy to follow, and the forms flow from one to the next seamlessly. The moves can be modified by people of any fitness level, standing or seated. I have participants who can do this standing but will take a chair occasionally to strengthen and stretch the abdominals and lower back. I wish there was a second video with slightly more challenging forms for progression. It's wonderful!

Excellent Tai Chi tape for those just learning Tai Chi, or for those who want to increase their flexibility in an enjoyable and meditative way.

This is my first dvd showing Tai Chi, I have books that I am now starting to read, but this dvd makes me want to have more dvd's.This is an excellant dvd as far as I'm concerned, clear concise, not rushed, and easy to follow and do, and quite enjoyable.It is around 45 minutes long and it won't leave you tired or sore.I picked this style(gentle)as I am an older person as is my wife.I wanted her to be able to do it also, sitting down as well as I doing the exercises standing up.To me (60) some of these exercises are quite simple, but to my wife, who has quite a few problems this may be what she needs for sitting down exercise.This is one of the beauties of this dvd,it can be done sitting or standing,although if you are going to do it standing you'll need a little room as there is a bit of movement to your whole body after you get into the swing of things.all in all, I'm very pleased with this and the instructor is very good and easy to follow.I highly recommend this if you are just starting out as I, and you don't want to exhaust yourself, try it, it's fun and somewhat exhilerating!I also think it may be a bit better than a book,as the actual doing and watching with the instructors seems to make it all easier to understand and follow.

I was forced to give a rating of one star, since there is no place to indicate that no stars are warranted. The copy of Gentle Tai Chi Meditation in Motion that I received was defective. It stopped mid-exercise and rewound. Repeated attempts to advance the tape or fast forward were unsuccessful. Needless to say, i'm not a satisfied customer.