Product Details

• Actors: Ph.D., M.D., Cindy Mason, Ph.D., C.M.T., Cheryl Gasner, R.N., R.C.F. N.P. Earl Mason
• Directors: Dr. Earl Mason
• Format: Animated, Color, Digital Sound, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1000
• Studio: Health Media Productions
• DVD Release Date: July 4, 2004
• Run Time: 50 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0002TJHBW
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #87,468 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

From the Actor
Instructor/Actor Cindy Mason says "This video is really about gorilla medicine...taking care of your health, even if the system collapses, or you live in a place that there just isn't any healthcare. Its been going on for a long time in other places. We're just trying help make it easier for folks to find out about it. If this video doesn't suit your fancy for any reason...keep looking, because the answers are out there.... We tried to design the material so even if you only had a little time, you can do SOMETHING. Notice what it is you like, this is what you will be most able to remember and take with you. The great thing about this kind of Self Care, is that you don't need insurance, electricity, or prescriptions, to benefit. The other great thing about Self Care is that it is blind to economic status, ethnicity, or location. The most important thing, is your willingness to try. Don't give up."

Product Description
Tai Chi in the Chair was 3 years in the making. Available in both DVD and VHS. Soon to be released overseas. Soundtrack from Indian Canyons where most filming took place, and indie music originating in Iceland. Extra chapter is live classroom footage. Material for the video was developed over a period of approximately 5 years, with instructor Kathleen Davis,and in courses held at cultural and community centers, corporations, day health centers and nursing homes, as well as from interactions with patients at hospitals in the San Francisco Bay Area. Content includes basics on tai chi chi kung, integrates self care acupressure into a 20 minute set for the chair, a 5 minute body tune up with anatomical illustration and research, plus an animated bonus chapter, totally 50 minutes in 7 chapters. The acupressure methods in this video were reported in scientific literature in 2003, as having shaved 3 weeks from expected hospital stays on patients at Stanford University Hospital. We are pleased to include this material in a bonus chapter.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars If you sit in a chair too much, you could use this!, October 10, 2004

By	Fb Ingram Jr. - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I am in good shape and excercise. When I complained about back, hip pain and general malaise from sitting at my desk too much I watched this DVD at the suggestion of a friend. I must say that after watching this DVD, in some time, I found myself doing the exersices at my desk and that it helps me keep my body and mind better adjusted. I feel better. The moves really become a subconscious act as your body wants what you do here. Beats the **** out of a chiroprator.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Horrible...still pictures and limited-to-no narration, December 20, 2006

By	Buyer Beware "BuyerBeware" (SanJose, California, USA) - See all my reviews

Simply horrible. The instructor doesn't bother to instruct. Most
of the DVD looks like a SLIDE show of still pictures and text,
limited "movie" (visual or audio instruction)
This is by far the worst DVD of any kind I had the misfortune to own.
I can't believe the high reviews other people gave this...

15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars (Almost) the most fun you can have in a chair, October 6, 2004

By	Henry A. Lieberman (Cambridge, MA, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

You know those stretch-in-your-seat videos on long airline flights? This is the grown-up version. If you can't do a full-sweat workout for whatever reason -- age, injury, lack of time, or the NBA Playoffs on TV, that doesn't mean you can't do exercise that'll help keep you healthy and make you feel better. This simple, relaxing video shows how to adapt traditional Tai Chi and other Eastern techniques for stretching and breathing exercises while you're sitting down. You don't have to dress in black and join that intensely-focused group in the park every morning. But there's also background material that explains more about the techniques and principles should you want to learn more.

Hey, 40 million Chinese can't be wrong!