Product Description
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. This video is the extended version of Dr. Chen's Tai Chi GongFa 401 with more beautiful and challenging moves added and presented in a combined manner. With the beautiful music Morning Sunlight Melody and beautiful morning sunny background, Dr. Chen will lead you through the complete warm-up and stretching, and 23 easy-to-difficult Tai Chi and Qigong forms. Breathing has been fully integrated into the moves. The breathing cues are provided. With a fully face-to-face, mirror-imaged leading demonstration, you will never get lost. There is no learning curve involved, and no memory is needed. Just follow Dr. Chen's moves and cues, you will have a complete body-mind workout. It is specially designed for home practice and does not require much space (about 4 x 5 square feet).