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Wild Goose Qigong: Natural Movement for Healthy Living

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Wild Goose Qigong: Natural Movement For Healthy Living is a compendium showcasing a superb form of physical and mental exercise that will promote good health and emotional well-being. This easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide is enhanced with more than 200 photos, Qigong sets, a complete explanation of the various health and meditative effects of each movement, and a reader-friendly guide to Qigong history. Wild Goose Qigong is the ideal introduction for the novice seeking to achieve integration of body, breath and consciousness, restore the healthy glow of youth; strengthen and relax the body, achieving calm, and focusing the mind.

I have the Bingkun Hu DVD and the Wen Mei Yu VHS, first 64 movements of Wild Goose Qigong. Hong-Chao Zhang may not be a "disciple" but I enjoy the pace and feel of how he performs the form. I have both the DVD and book for Hong-Chao Zhang. The book is a good accompaniment. The only thing I would say that could be improved in the book is to clarify or leave out what I guess are the accupuncture points of the body. As an example on pp, 43 part of the sentence states; point L14 of your left hand presses B23, B52, G26, SP15, S25, and K16. Unless, you have some training on what these points are, the reference is not very helpful.

Not a bad book for beginners, but an even better one covering the 1st 64 movements of the Wild Goose system is Wen Mei Yu's "Chi Kung: Taoist Secrets of Fitness and Longevity." Rumour has it that Master Michael Tse is coming out with his own "Grandmaster Yang Meijun approved" version of the 1st 64 movements as well. Stay tuned. If you don't have a certified teacher nearby, in addition to a book you'll need Wen Mei Yu's 3 videos. Excellent production, lighting, English voice-over and quality.

As I said before, Master Michael Tse was planning to come out with his own version of the 1st 64 movements. It's here folks, so forget about this title. Contact the Tse Qigong Centre online for ordering info. Michael lists Grandmaster Yang Meijun's approved instructors for North America and this guy is not one of them.