Product Details

• Actors: Shoshanna Katzman
• Directors: Eli Kabillio
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Studio: Swing Pictures/Maddog Films
• DVD Release Date: November 26, 2003
• Run Time: 36 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00018J9VW
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #48,407 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Could have been great..., September 2, 2007

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Cikk "cikk" (Malta) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Qigong for Staying Young (DVD)

I bought this dvd along with the book - I like a visual aid to exercise with, as it keeps a flow, and helps ensure you're doing things properly - and a text sometimes gives you deeper info. I found the book good, lots of info there. The DVD could have been good, but it is too difficult to follow along for a total beginner. There is no commentary whatsoever. Which means that even when you should be looking another way, you have to watch the screen constantly to know if it's time to do something else. I have an enormous collection of workout DVDs, and this has one of the laziest productions I have ever seen. With the technology available on DVD, there should have been an option to have a voiceover or not. Thus, one could learn with the voiceover, and later practice without it for a more zen session. I though at the very least there would be titles on the screen each time a new movement was introduced, but no, nothing..... pity. I shall have to stick with my Garripoli DVDs.

18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful, October 20, 2006

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John Voigt "John Voigt" (Cambridge, MA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Qigong for Staying Young (DVD)

Qigong (Chi Kung) is a Chinese art and science that means working with and cultivating the vitality of life. This DVD is an outstanding method to learn this ancient and modern tradition for staying young, healthy, and in harmony with yourself and the world around you.

This DVD's many exercises are simple and easy to do--everything is clear and to the point. An added feature is that Shoshanna Katzman (both author and person doing the movements) does not talk as she does them. Any discussion comes after.

Yet paradoxically the DVD is encyclopedic in its coverage. Shoshanna has studied for many years with masters and has made a vast wealth of practical knowledge easily available to anyone who wants to learn.

The DVD may be used alone, but there is a book, Qigong for Staying Young by Shoshanna Katzman that is a wonderful addition. I strongly suggest getting them both. It could be the best purchase you ever make.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not a Stand-Alone Product, December 11, 2008

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Derby "Whosiwa" (WEST NEWTON, MA, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Qigong for Staying Young (DVD)

I first bought the book Qigong for Staying Young and then felt that I needed to see the exercises being done to get them exactly right, so I ordered the DVD. On the DVD, the author demonstrates the session, but without any instruction at all, no explanation of how the breathing should coordinate with the movement, or of the visualizations mentioned in the book. The viewer is left to guess at what the healing sounds are if it's not entirely clear from Katzman's pronunciation. It would have been ideal as a previous reviewer mentioned, if there was a soundtrack guiding you through the first times that could then be shut off, but as it is, it is inadequate by itself to understand the exercises, and in light of this, $25 is far too much to pay for the DVD. It should have been packaged together with the book. That all being said, I do like the workout very much....