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Qigong: Traditional Chinese Exercises for Healing Body, Mind, and Spirit [VHS]

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I am always looking to gain knowledege in qigong healing. At present not much literature is out to be seen. I have quite a collection in this field and find this video as one of the best, at present. All basic exercises are demonstrated in detail which are hard to follow from any other book. Very good for gaining Qigong knowledge.

Very clear and easy to follow instuctions, gentle reminders of important things to remember. Doing just one exercise, including the visualization brought healing. The exercises are gentle and a little does a great deal to bring one back to a natural alive feeling. Personally, relieved all symptoms of fibromyalgia. The feeling of fresh energy that flows thru upon following the video, affected not only the physical, but mental energy feels fresh also. Good clear instruction.

The techniques and exercises in this video are simple to follow and easy on your body. I recommend it to anyone who is trying to increase their vitality and energy jumping from a sedentary lifestyle. You can actually feel the energy flow after just a few complete sessions with the video. Video is worth every penny and more!

Qigong is not for people accustomed to the fast-paced life in modern America.In this video, Cohen gives a complete Qigong workout as he carefully describes and illustrates the movements, postures, and breathing techniques which are of utmost importance if it is to be learned properly. Watching this video is like having the instructor in the living room with you, and one can learn to imitate even the slightest hand and finger movements.This tape is especially valuable for me as there are no teachers in my area.Chi-Kung, like Tai-Chi is an art that is learned and preformed with no hurry, and Cohen demonstrates the basic workout as well as it can possibly be done. Very beneficial

I liked the overall content of the video, and the benefits of qigong will certainly come through from watching and participating in the video. I guess that it was a little tedious for me being new to both qigong and learning by video.

This feedback is probably best for the creator, but I found that following each excercise and learning them was tedious in that so much information was given while performing the excercises. It would be nice to have it divided into details and nature of each excercise, and then actually taking you through the excercises "real-time", like a work out video, or have some sort of accompanying one page sheet that shows you the brief need-to-know aspects on each excercise (e.g. repetitions, sounds, movement), without all of the detail. Then I could follow it daily and refer to the details when need be.

I ended up writing my own "brief" to run through when I did my daily excercise. Hey, maybe I can sell it to Ken! :-)

Nonetheless, pretty good stuff and worth buying as an introduction to qigong.

In Qigong: Traditional Chinese Exercises For Healing Body, Mind, And Spirit, Ken Cohen takes the viewers through a 90 minute, full color, video presentation of the Ancient Chinese system of gentle movements and breathing techniques designed to access and harness the basic energy of the university abiding in the human body and called "qi". Easy-to-follow instruction and dozens of demonstrations hallmark a four-part Qigong workout that is simple to learn and perform. Qigong is strongly recommended viewing for students of applied eastern philosophies, as well as ordinary men and women in search of a peaceful spirit and healthy body.

The scenery was wonderful but he spent to much time talking about the exercises and did not have a practice session at the end to let you go through all the movements without all of the confusing talking and taking forever to explain it. I do not use it after I purchased it. I bought another QiGong video that has instructions at the first and then the practice session. It was much more satisfactory. Too bad, as I think Ken is very knowledgeable, but I could not get through all the verbage.

Carole in Seattle

This is a good video. It teaches some mild ChiGung. The real novelty here is the instruction about the healing sounds coupled to the exercises. I respectfully disagree with another reviewer that this video is too wordy. One can learn from the video and then going "inside" and doing the real training.
The video "the five animal frolics" by the same author is by far the best instructional tool he made public. It's a shame that the author didn't re-record the "frolics" with the same high quality as this one.

A wonderful way to learn the essence of healthy breathing. Ken takes his time to give the ultimate details to optimize posture and benefits from the practice. I have viewed the video over 50 times in the past few years and I still learn from viewing it again.

This video was less than wonderful. It had too much chatting,
and not enough exercises. Then the exercises it did have
were the ordinary run of the mill kind.Definately not worth the money I paid for it