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Summary: Excellent warm-up
Comment: After many video tapes and "in-person" training, the warm-up from this video is, for me, the best exercise. The warm up covers all the major chakras (body parts) in an easy to follow format. Recommended for anyone who wants to improved his, or her, inner experience.
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Summary: Is there something wrong with my video??
Comment: I just watched this video for the first time. The first half hour shows the demonstrator doing the chi exercises to soft music. You have no clue what she is doing, or why.
The second half shows instructions on the warm up exercises and movements. The instructor is standing in front of a small class of participants and explaining the warm up movements. Her mouth is moving, but there is ABSOLUTELY NO VERBAL SOUND on my video. So, you still have no clue what you are doing or why. Is my video defective or are all of yours the same? You can hear the nice music, but absolutely no talking. Ok, I was totally lost and don't think I will ever use this video.
I would appreciate hearing from others who own this video. Is there and talking/ audible verbal instructions on yours???
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Summary: Rewind Learning Curve
Comment: A key point to remember is that Qigong takes practice and perseverance, but it is fun doing something new and deriving the benefits of this ancient healing art form. Cohen's book (mentioned in another review) is good and filled with more information than one might ever need, but it is very comprehensive...like a small encyclopedia of Qigong. There are thousands of forms that have been created over the thousands of years Qigong has been practiced. Linda's program is very gentle and excellent for beginners. There are other, more martial arts oriented Qigong forms. I've heard it said that the root of all martial arts is Qigong. If you have a background in martial arts, or want to focus your program contiguous with martial arts then Discovering Chi will disappoint. But for a beginner to get started and then move into a more martial arts orientation, you can't go wrong with Discovering Chi.
Some folks have complained about the formatting of the video tape (and dvd too) in that there are no markers to easily locate segments of the tape. While this is a bit irritating I found that after one becomes moderately proficient with each movement and the warm-up one can simply follow the program from the beginning of the tape. It took me about ten times. Now I have the warm-ups well in hand (not difficult at all) and I can simply rewind back to the beginning and follow the routine. If additional practice is needed on any one movement then I can practice it several times and the rewind time is insignificant. I very much enjoy the relaxed nature of Linda's program and teaching. I feel fortunate and blessed to have found this program as my first experience with Qigong Ta'i Chi.
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Summary: Qigong beginner
Comment: I wanted to start off saying I thought this was an excellent video. Great music, clear explanations of what needed done along with the ability to see exactly what was going on. I was confused as to why the warm up was 26 minutes into the tape when you are to always do warm up prior to starting but I felt that was a minor issue. I do have a word of caution based on my experience. I am totally new to qigong. This video I picked up at a library as it has always been something I wanted to try. Each time after I practiced this video I became very sad. I couldn't even say why. This happened the first couple of times and on the next session (this was all in a two week timespan) I became very depressed. A problem at work that couldn't get resolved and I went downhill. As this has never happened to me before, it scared me. I picked up a book on qigong to find out what happened and one paragraph stood out - "Proceed gradually, step by step. Don't overload your qi by trying to do too much too soon." It went on to mention that latent problems could surface if you overload your qi circuits. My feeling is that if you are a basic beginner like me - check out Kenneth Cohen's book "The Way of Qigong" and start from there - then work your way up to this video. He gives a week by week qigong practice plan in his book. Obviously, not everyone will have this problem based upon other reviews but it did happen to me.
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Summary: Not Ninja Material.
Comment: If your into martial arts, and think this video is going to turn you into a Ninja with the death touch, your gonna be disappointed. It shows some exercises you do to improve your health and well being. It was the only video that I could find on the subject so I bought it. I tried a few of the exercises, and you can feel your chi flowing because of them, otherwise my video sits and gathers dust until I get more time to practice what's on it.
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