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Summary: Breathing as the secret to better health.
Review: HEALTHY BREATHING Ken Cohen The secret to better health is something you are doing right now: breathing. But are you breathing effectively? Many centuries ago, the qigong masters of China taught that the practice of breathing is the foundation of health and awareness. On Healthy Breathing, Ken Cohen teaches how you can master this natural way to instantly breathe energy and healing qi(life force) into your body every minute of the day. Now, with each breath you take, you can bring more oxygen into your body, stimulate your vital organs, and create a joyful calm that penetrates throughout your body. You will learn: an easy self-test to evaluate your breathing habits; the five qualities of perfect breathing - and how to gain them; a way to free yourself from inefficient "chest breathing"; the Taoist bliss state attainable by anyone through breath work; four step-by-step breathing exercises you can practice anywhere. The air you breathe costs nothing. Yet it holds the priceless gift of better health, a gift waiting to be discovered on Healthy Breathing. LEARN MORE ABOUT: The three levels of qigong breathing When and how to practice How to let your body breathe for you Shen hu xi breathing Dan tianbreathing The four phases of the breathing cycle Massaging and "recharging" your vital organs with the breath Opening guanyuan,the Primal Gate How to "unfreeze" a rigid diaphragm Becoming qi "Reversed breathing" exercise, and much more. Ken Cohen is a renowned Taoist initiate, China scholar, and qigong master. In 1973, he was one of six students chosen by Alan Watts for private study of Taoism. Ken is the author of the internationally acclaimed book The Way of Qigong: The Art and Science of Chinese Energy Healing and more than 150 journal articles. He co-authored, with Tu Xin-Shi, China's gold medal artist, Autumn Leaves: The Wisdom and Art of Chinese Calligraphy. Ken is an adjunct professor at Union Graduate School and presents at universities and conferences throughout the world. For information on his programs, you may write to him at: Qigong Research and Practice Center PO Box 1727 Nederland, CO 80466 or phone him at: 1-303-258-0971
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Summary: Proper breathing has a major impact on your health
Review: I have been suffering with a fatiguing illness for several years and have tried just about everything. I picked up Ken Cohen's Healthy Breathing on a lark and was so glad I did. This very easy to follow audio tape enables you to determine if you are breathing properly, and offers quick and easy exercises that will help you to make the most out of every breath you take! I won't say it has been a "cure" but it sure has helped!! Happy Breathing!
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Summary: Conscious breathing WITHOUT interferring with Nature
Review: My "practice" was stalled and what to do? At first, HEALTHY BREATHING, did not apppear to be the answer, in spite of my having great respect for Ken Cohen (I own CHI KUNG MEDIATIONS and am familar with several other of his materials. Fortunately I did not come up with any better ideas and so purchased it. It is Ken Cohen's thesis that: "We all have room for improvement". The tape starts with an awareness study to determine YOUR natural breathing, proceeds gently to shun hu xi--natural, freely flowing, breath or in Western terms--abdominal or diaphragmatic breathing, then proceeds to more advanced Dan tien breathing and finally is taken to the most advanced form of natural breathing--embryonic breath. Some ancillary exercises are included to help develop techniques and the tape ends with a free-form exploration of breath in order to learn to appy conscious breathing to various situations. How to work these exercises into daily activites is discussed, important points repeated, and the material is reviewed. But everything is presented in such a way, that the tape can be listened to profitably many times. HEALTHY BREATHING is not only an excellent instruction on breathing; but also is a concrete illustration of wu-wei: effort, without excess.
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Summary: Conscious breathing WITHOUT interferring with Nature
Review: My "practice" was stalled and what to do? At first, HEALTHY BREATHING, did not apppear to be the answer, in spite of my having great respect for Ken Cohen (I own CHI KUNG MEDIATIONS and am familar with several other of his materials. Fortunately I did not come up with any better ideas and so purchased it. It is Ken Cohen's thesis that: "We all have room for improvement". The tape starts with an awareness study to determine YOUR natural breathing, proceeds gently to shun hu xi--natural, freely flowing, breath or in Western terms--abdominal or diaphragmatic breathing, then proceeds to more advanced Dan tien breathing and finally is taken to the most advanced form of natural breathing--embryonic breath. Some ancillary exercises are included to help develop techniques and the tape ends with a free-form exploration of breath in order to learn to appy conscious breathing to various situations. How to work these exercises into daily activites is discussed, important points repeated, and the material is reviewed. But everything is presented in such a way, that the tape can be listened to profitably many times. HEALTHY BREATHING is not only an excellent instruction on breathing; but also is a concrete illustration of wu-wei: effort, without excess.
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Summary: Conscious breathing WITHOUT interferring with Nature
Review: My "practice" was stalled and what to do? At first, HEALTHY BREATHING, did not apppear to be the answer, in spite of my having great respect for Ken Cohen (I own CHI KUNG MEDIATIONS and am familar with several other of his materials. Fortunately I did not come up with any better ideas and so purchased it. It is Ken Cohen's thesis that: "We all have room for improvement". The tape starts with an awareness study to determine YOUR natural breathing, proceeds gently to shun hu xi--natural, freely flowing, breath or in Western terms--abdominal or diaphragmatic breathing, then proceeds to more advanced Dan tien breathing and finally is taken to the most advanced form of natural breathing--embryonic breath. Some ancillary exercises are included to help develop techniques and the tape ends with a free-form exploration of breath in order to learn to appy conscious breathing to various situations. How to work these exercises into daily activites is discussed, important points repeated, and the material is reviewed. But everything is presented in such a way, that the tape can be listened to profitably many times. HEALTHY BREATHING is not only an excellent instruction on breathing; but also is a concrete illustration of wu-wei: effort, without excess.
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Summary: Learn how to breathe
Review: While I thought this was going to be a ver extensive method with a lot of excercises, the 90 minute tape proves to be the contrary. It works as a basic reminder of how we are supposed to breath. This tape is about doing nothing but letting your body remember what nature has thought it. With a soothing voice, Ken leads you through the method filled with nice chinese-flute music and extensive advice. There's no breathing olympics here, just a tranquil, quiet system to regain consciuosness, peace and calmness.
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