Cultivating Qi

How can Qi offer you the means, tools and will to live a life of balance? Explaining what Qi is, where it comes from, how we use it, and how we can cultivate it in order to achieve wholeness and balance, this long-awaited book combines knowledge and practice to explore all aspects of Qi, including its modern, everyday implications. The author covers the history of the concept of Qi, and demystifies the philosophies and practices surrounding it. Containing valuable information on how to recognise and cultivate Qi in order to increase your energetic capacity and gain a more efficient physical, emotional, and psychological state, it also illustrates Qi's central importance in meditation, Taiji, Qigong, and other Internal Arts practices that focus upon its vitality.

Foreword by Grandmaster Nick Gracenin. 1. The Will to Qi. 2. Returning to the Source: The History of Energy and Its Uses. 3. Opening the Energy Gates of the Body. 4. Powered by Breath. 5. Cultivating Mind and Heart. 6. The Elements of Daily Practice. Works cited. Acknowledgements.