Tai chi : the perfect exercise : finding health, happiness, balance, and strength

The host of PBS's Longevity Tai Chi and leading Western Tai Chi master Arthur Rosenfeld offers a groundbreaking guide to the myriad mental and physical benefits of this ancient martial art, including easing chronic pain and illness, dealing with stress, and resolving conflicts more easily. Are you looking to develop your mind as well as your body? look no further than tai chi. Time magazine has called tai chi “the perfect exercise,” while the Harvard Health Review dubbed this martial art form “medication in motion.” Like yoga before it, Tai Chi’s popularity has increased dramatically in recent years, with classes popping up everywhere. But it is still often stereotyped as slow and only for elderly people. Now, this indispensible guide offers an accessible, user-friendly approach to this dynamic, rich, ancient tradition, grounding the beginner in tradition and basic technique while offering the more experienced practitioner insights, history, and inspiration. Tai Chi—The Perfect Exercise shares the myriad mental and physical benefits of the practice, including easing chronic pain and illness, dealing with stress, and resolving conflicts more easily. Tai Chi is the answer for anyone—regardless of level of fitness or strength—looking for an exercise program that develops the mind as well... Details the art, practice, and health benefits of tai chi, explaining how the martial art can help ease chronic pain and illness, deal with stress, and resolve conflicts, as well as increase mindfulness and improve breathing From one of the few Western Tai Chi masters, host of "Longevity Tai Chi" on PBS and author of The Truth about Chronic Pain (Basic, 60k in 2 eds): a guidebook to this ancient martial art- "the perfect exercise." From the host of PBS's Longevity Tai Chi: a guide to the art, practice, and health benefits of Tai Chi