You Are How You Move (eBook)

Experiential Chi Kung

Ged Sumner (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2009
176 Seiten
Jessica Kingsley Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-85701-002-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Ged Sumner writes with rich insights into how to begin to think about your body and how to take the steps that will enable you to transform your Chi Kung practice. This modern, accessible approach to Chi Kung by a highly experienced teacher integrates mind and body and shows you how to become sensitive to yourself.

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Chi Kung is the best kept secret on the planet. It is a powerful way of becoming fit, healthy and balanced through opening and mobilising the body and joints, breathing techniques, slow movement exercises, standing postures, special walking methods and meditation. It can be done anywhere, any time, in whatever you are wearing. With consistent practice you can transform your health to a high level of vitality.Ged Sumner writes with rich insights into how to begin to think about your body and how to take the steps that will enable you to transform your practice. Completely accessible to those new to the field, the book will also be transformative for more experienced practitioners, providing many new ways of looking at `old' elements of Chi Kung practice, and exploring the essential parts of the body most affected by Chi Kung. This modern, accessible approach to Chi Kung by a highly experienced teacher integrates mind and body and shows you how to become sensitive to yourself. A free website shows video footage of the forms in the book for easy reference.

Autor

Ged Sumner is a practising craniosacral therapist and Chi Kung teacher. He has also studied shiatsu, healing and attachment based psychoanalytical psychotherapy. He is Director of the College of Elemental Chi Kung offering Chi Kung classes, workshops, retreats and a Chi Kung Teacher Training program in Europe, North America and Australasia. Ged teaches Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy as a senior tutor and course director. He is also a director of the Healthy Living Centre, a multi-disciplinary alternative therapy practice in London.

Inhalt

Acknowledgements. Introduction: What is Exercise? 1. Finding Your Spine. 2. Listening to Your Body. 3. Natural Alignment. 4. Breathe More. 5. A New Pelvis.6. Know Your Feet. 7. Moving in Three Dimensions. 8. The Art of Standing Still. 9. Opening Your Joints. 10. Chi Flow. 11. Fire and Water. 12. Transformations. 13. Be Spontaneous. 14. Chi Meditations. 15. Chi Kung Applications.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.4.2009
• Zusatzinfo: 170 photographs, 8 line drawings
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 140 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Alternative Heilverfahren
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Fitness / Aerobic / Bodybuilding
• Schlagworte: Body • Breathing • Exercises • joints • Meditation • Movement
• ISBN-10: 0-85701-002-6 / 0857010026
• ISBN-13: 978-0-85701-002-5 / 9780857010025