After reading about all the benefits of qigong, i’m now hooked. Though, i cant find a reliable instructor where i live, so that leaves me with two options that i can think of: books and videos.
i’ve been looking into different qigong exercies and the ones that intrigued me the most is yijinjing and baduanjin. as for yijinjing, i’ve found two videos at martialartsmart.com : Shaolin Muscle-Tendon Change Classic by shi de qian and shaolin bodhidharma yi jing jing. which one is better, and how so? can one learn it simply from a video or do i need supplementary book with it? i’ve found one book so far that covers partly on yijinjing; qigong the secret of youth. is this any good?
as far as baduanjin goes, i’ve found a book and video by Jwing-Ming Yang. the name of the book is Eight Simple Qigong Exercises for Health: The Eight Pieces of Brocade, and i think the video is called something akin. would either the book or video be sufficient enough by itself to learn it?
if someone could help me out with the answer to these questions, i’d appriciate it.
one more thing i thought of, does anyone know if yijinjing contributs to any hard qigong skills? if so that’d give me another reason to learn it.
Before you get into any of that, you need a base to work off of, check out dr. yangs “The root of chinese qigong”
Im just now reading it myself, and plan on reading “muscle/tendon changing classics”, da mo’s original work translated by Dr. Yang.
Though, i cant find a reliable instructor where i live
What about the UNreliable instructors?
Ok, just a joke.
Have you considered Yoga? You can usually find decent instruction in any community, sometimes quite inexpensively. Even if you don’t stick with it, the basic training is so similar that it’ll help you loads with understanding whats the deallio with qiqong.
since no one of you answered any of my question… i might as well reply u.
yoga–im not into all of those goofy positions. all i want to learn is qigong, nothing more for now.
internal arts like the one mention just aint my bag. id do it if i had the time. i might start doing tai chi or something similiar when i get older, but i got a long time till then. im more about external arts now–stuff that actually works without spending ten years learning it.
id really appriciate it if anyone could give me a reply to my initial questions. and shaolin do, ill check out that book too. thanks for the tip.
