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• Actors: Dr. Chen
• Region: All Regions
• Run Time: 22 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000UQVUIU
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #133,720 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Who designed this exercise? This exercise was concisely designed by David Chen, Ph.D. in Exercise Science. Dr. Chen received his bachelor and master degrees in physical education from Beijing Institute of Physical Education, and his doctor degree from the University of North Caroline at Greensboro. Dr. Chen has been studying and working on teaching and teacher education in Eastern and Western exercise and fitness fields for over 20 years. Thousands of students have benefited from his instructions. Dr. Chen fully understands the difficulties and frustrations that Western students have had in learning Eastern exercise styles like Tai Chi and Qigong systerms. To help more Western people who are interested in Chinese style exercises fully enjoy the beauty and benefits of Tai Chi and Qigong practice IMMEDIATELY, Dr. Chen has been developing viewer-friendly, easy, safe, enjoyable and effective exercise routines for various populations. All of these exercise routines were carefully designed by following safety rules, professional teaching guidelines, human learning characteristics, and principles in traditional Chinese medicine and modern exercise science. These exercises also reflect the harmony of the combination of Eastern and Western exercise philosophies and techniques. What is special in this video? This video is the easy, concise version of Dr. Chen's Tai Chi workout routines. With the beautiful music Morning Sunlight Melody, Dr. Chen will lead you through the safe, easy and effective warm-up and stretching, and six easy, beautiful Tai Chi and Qigong forms with emphasis on breathing. The breathing cues are provided. With a fully balanced, mirror-imaged demonstration, you will never get lost. There is no learning curve involved, no interruption, no balancing challenge, and no memory is needed. Just follow Dr. Chen's moves and cues, you will have a complete body-mind workout. It is designed for home practice and does not require much space (about 4 x 4 square feet).

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Too basic, January 21, 2008

By	A Customer - See all my reviews

The web site do not state that this is the 2nd of a 5 DVD series. This DVD has a handful of few basic moves repeated over and over. I bought this DVD seeing a five star review. Only after buying I realized that the review was created by the makers of the DVD themselves.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Additional infomation from the producer, August 3, 2007

By	Crystal Tai Chi (USA) - See all my reviews

A Uniquely Viewer-friendly Gentle, Safe and Effective Workout System
Focusing on Cultivating Root of Life and Improving Fundamental Human Body Functions.
What benefits can I get?
1. Enhanced body-mind harmony.
2. Obtained coordination between breathing and movements.
3. Improved flexibility around whole body.
4. Improved joint health.
5. Improved internal energy level.
6. Improved posture.
7. Reduced back pain.
8. Reduced daily stress.
9. Reduced hypertension
10. Improved cardio-respiratory system function.
11. Improved muscle strength.
12. Improved serenity, emotion, and attitude.
13. Built foundation for learning Tai Chi and Qigong systems.

Whom is this for?
This video is designed for people who have regularly practiced Dr. Chen's Tai Chi GongFa 101 for over three months to move up, or for those who want to maintain a regular 22-minute easy, gentle, safe and effective daily workout, especially in the mornings. It will specially benefit seniors and people who are currently weak and want to be involved in a daily routine of safe and gentle body-mind exercise to gradually strengthen their internal energy and improve general health and fitness, as well as release daily stress. It is also good for people, who want to start leaning Tai Chi or Qigong but do not have time to take the class, to get a first taste of Tai Chi Qigong workout.

When should I practice it?
It is recommended that you practice it in the mornings to best prepare yourself physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually for your daily activity. It is certainly good to practice this exercise at anytime during the day.

Contents
(1) Joint warm-ups
(2) Stretching
(3) Wave the Curtain
(4) Unite Yin and Yang
(5) Two mountains strike down
(6) Support the sky
(7) Push the mountain
(8) Push the Boat with wind
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What is Dr. Chen's Tai Chi GongFa?
Tai Chi is the slow style of martial arts in Chinese martial art system. Today most people practice Tai Chi because of its soft nature and health benefits. However, originally it was never designed for this purpose, it is still one of martial art styles, and some elements are even dangerous, also the learning process has never been people friendly.
Qigong is the Chinese exercise system that focuses more on internal attributes (e.g. energy) development through movement and breathing.
GongFa means the method of doing Tai Chi and Qigong exercises with special long-term purpose.

Dr. Chen's Tai Chi GongFa is an exercise system for health using selected, the best, safe, gentle, beautiful, and most effective Tai Chi and Qigong movements or forms with strong focus on BREATHING, which is considered the fundamental way of cultivating internal energy, the root of life. Remember: no breathing, no life; poor breathing, poor life; better breathing, better life; strong breathing, strong life!!!
Why this system is the best and unique?
In Dr. Chen's 20 years teaching career, he has been designing and developing many safe, gentle, and effective exercise routines for various populations. Dr. Chen's Tai Chi GongFa video program is the result of effort that put some of the routines in a logical and systematic order and extremely viewer-friendly manner so that almost anyone (regardless their fitness levels) who doesn't have access to his teaching settings can still benefit from his instruction very easily.

What are the philosophy and main characteristics behind this system?
(1). Minimum time, maximum result on the root of life and fundamental physical functions.
(2) Using each person's own resource, rather then relying on external equipment, to reproduce his or
her own energy, and enhance his or her own life force, and improve fundamental physical
functions like cardio-respiratory function, muscle tones, leg strength, flexibility, balance,
agility, coordination, joint health, and immune system.
(3). All those exercise routines are beautiful and enjoyable, and easy to do, so they can be maintained as
a life-long exercise style.
(4). Extremely simple and viewer friendly, fully mirror-imaged leading demonstration, no learning
curves involved. You can start right at the first time you view them and receive the benefits
immediately.
(5). Breathing is fully integrated into each routine, and breathing cues are provided during the full length
of each routine, so viewers have no chance to get lost or confused.
(6). No big space required. Only 4x4 square feet in front of TV is enough.

What are the major considerations and principles in designing this system
that can not be found in other exercise systems?
(1) People's health conditions and fitness levels.
(2) Safety rules of doing exercises in modern exercise science..
(3) Professional teaching guidelines in physical education and fitness instruction.
(4) Teaching and learning psychologies and characteristics.
(5) Physical and physiological nature of human body adaptations.
(6) Principles in traditional Chinese Medicine and philosophies of human life enhancement in Chinese
culture.
(7) Principles and strategies in modern exercise science.
(8) Principles in human movement design and physical skill learning and teaching.
(9) Balance of Yin and Yang.
(10) Balance of Left and Right.
Testimonials for Dr.Chen's Tai Chi GongFa video prgrams:
"I have been a student of Tai-Chi for five years attending classes and using a variety of videos. I recently had an accident and find myself in a wheelchair. After trying to alter my past forms, I found the tape by Dr. Chen for people on Wheelchair (001). It has been wonderful and such a plus for my emotional, mental and physical well being and healing. I practiced with the tape three days in a row and can feel the movement of the chi throughout my body. This is one video that will get many hours of play. It is very difficult to find exercise videos for the handicapped let alone one that presents itself in alternative modalities. In time, I hope I can advance to tapes not needing the wheelchair. Dr. Chen's tapes and DVDs are ones that I will use faithfully."

-- Gerry Marangoni, Homerville, Ohio.

"I use a wheelchair and was looking for an exercise program I could do in the chair. That is how I found Dr. Chen's Tai Chi on a chair vidoes. This is the only program I have found that is not boring. It is also easy to learn because all I have to do is follow Dr. Chen's movements and breathing cues. I really enjoy it and do it every morning. Not only is it fun to do, it gives me energy and has given me great flexibility and tone in my upper body. I also lift weights, which can cause muscle soreness the following day. I find that doing the Tai Chi routine relieves the muscle soreness. In addition to the physical benefits, I also feel more calm throughout the day when I do the Tai Chi every morning. I love doing Tai Chi. I started with 001 and then moved to 002. Now I am looking forward to the Tai Chi GongFa 003. I highly recommend Dr. Chen's Tai Chi on a Chair to anyone who is looking for a fun, beneficial exercise routine they can do sitting down."

-- Aisha Y. Musa, PhD., Miami, FL


"I highly recommend Dr. Chen's Tai Chi video programs to everyone. I use a manual wheelchair and Dr. Chen's Tai Chi on a Chair is the best workout series I have ever used. I started with Level 1, then went to Level 2, and now I am doing Level 3. Doing it consistently every day has improved my upper body flexibility, tone, and strength. It also makes me feel awake and energized, so I do it in the morning rather than the evening. Not only is it great exercise, it is fun and easy to learn. Just follow Dr. Chen's movements and breathing cues. It may take a few days to learn the moves completely, especially for Levels 2 and 3. It did for me. So be patient and just follow Dr. Chen's movements, and then add the breathing. Soon, it will all come very easily. Tai Chi on a Chair is good for anyone who has problems standing, even if you do not use a wheelchair. I cannot say enough good things about doing Tai Chi with Dr. Chen's vidoes. Doing Tai Chi regularly makes me feel so good that I even recommend his regular Tai Chi videos to people I know who do not have problems walking or standing. "

--Aisha Y Musa, PhD. Miami, FL


"I have been studying Tai-Chi for over six years and I am proficient in several forms. I work as a mentor for elderly people looking to improve their fitness, particularly their balance and mobility, which will enable them to stay in their own homes rather than being moved to hospitals or sheltered housing. I myself have found Tai Chi to be an excellent all round form of fitness particularly ChiGong and I am hoping to include the chair exercises in the routines we currently use for the elderly. I have now received the DVD version of Dr. Chen's TaiChiGongFa 001 for people on wheel-chair and I am absolutely delighted with it. It is particularly useful in that it incorporates the breathing which I find stimulates people very quickly. It is great to see how the traditional movements can be adapted and the fact that the entire sequence is flowing gives people something to aim for - which is good for... Read more ›