Here is a detailed, easy-to-use guidebook for women forty and older on how to use gentle but powerful traditional Chinese exercises, breathing techniques, massage, meditation, and vocalizations to promote health, fitness, relaxation, and mental clarity; improve stamina; and even treat specific health concerns. Acupuncturist and longtime qigong practitioner Deborah Davis explains the traditional Chinese approach to health and the various components of qigong practice; gives general health routines for women in specific age groups; and offers do-it-yourself practices and routines for specific health issues including insomnia, hypertension and heart disease, menopause, sexual vitality, breast health, breast cancer, osteoporosis, and depression.

"This book is loaded with practical, effective and transformational information and practices to help all midlife women maintain vibrant health." Christiane Northrup, MDWomen's Qigong for Health & Longevity is an easy-to-use guidebook for women featuring gentle Chinese qigong movements, breathing techniques, self-massage, meditation, and Daoist sound healing to promote health, reduce stress, slow aging, and increase well-being. By following the effective healing programs in this book, women can prevent and even cure many common imbalances such as insomnia, menopause, osteoporosis, PMS, breast cancer, depression, heart health and low libido. In only 20 minutes a day, women will cultivate their own energy to heal themselves and live with vitality. Deborah Davis, acupuncturist and authority on women's medical qigong, has first-hand clinical knowledge of the healing benefits of Qigong. She'll share remarkable stories such as Anne, who couldn't get pregnant after spending thousands on medical procedures and came to Deborah's Qigong clinic as a last resort. Detecting suppressed anger as the root cause of Anne's infertility, Deborah prescribed a Qigong program to balance Anne's emotions- she got pregnant within 3 months! Deborah's 75-year-old mother had dangerously high blood pressure which wasn't responding to medication. Deborah designed a Qigong protocol to lower the pressure and regulate her mother's heart. Within a month, she had the lowest pressure since her twenties. Women's Qigong is the first women's Qigong book to share coveted Qigong exercises passed down exclusively to Deborah from her teacher Dr. Wang, a Qigong master, and surgeon from China. She introduces the unique energy center of women specifically used to nourish the reproductive organs. Detailed descriptions illustrated by clear photographs create qigong programs for the different stages of a women's life: ? Dynamic Woman (late 30's into forties): maintain strength, resolve PMS and nourish the reproductive organs. ? Graceful Passage (mid-forties to early fifties): balance those wayward hormones, increase energy, calm the emotions.? Wise Woman (fifty to sixty-five): build energy, relieve insomnia, prevent incontinence and keep joints flexible. ? Sage Woman (sixty-five and beyond): strengthen the heart and bones, and maintain balance and agility.Visit www.deborahdavis.com

Master Liu He recognizes that through Qigong practice, every woman has the potential to awaken her self-healing power. This book provides the philosophy and practical exercises on how to achieve wholeness in your life.

Learn traditional Chinese Qigong with this illustrated guide. The urgent pace of modern life has led to a quest for ways to relieve stress. One of the best methods for doing so is Qigong—an ancient Chinese system of breathing techniques and exercises that strengthen the mind, body, and spirit as they balance and augment Qi, or “life force.” This thorough volume presents many different forms of Qigong in detail and through fully illustrated exercises. Included are an explanation of the principles of Qigong, warming–up exercises, breathing exercises, and a guide to massaging the inner organs. The authors have also provided a table that describes the various exercises, listing their physical benefits and classifying them according to level of difficulty, so that readers can practice their own routines.

Gentle movements from the ancient Chinese art of self-healing and fitness to maintain youthful health and vitality. Shoshanna Katzman introduces readers to the practice of qigong through her graceful twenty-minute program that incorporates postures, breath, sound, visualization, and self-massage. This revitalizing workout will help women of all ages maintain youthful skin, eyes, and hair; improve fitness; and renew energy. Readers can then customize their routine, as the author explains how to apply the healing powers of qigong-along with herbal and dietary remedies-to specific age-related concerns such as arthritis, osteoporosis, menopause, weight gain, and decreased sexual vitality.

The special medical Qi Gong described in this book was developed and perfected over the course of 1,700 years by Taoists, traditional Chinese medical doctors, and Qi Gong experts in China to meet the needs of a woman’s unique anatomy. Author Tina Zhang leads readers through a variety of pleasurable postures and easy exercises that address specific areas of the body. In turn, these exercises, which work progressively to strengthen the spirit-mind-body connection, enhance natural female energy to help prevent or alleviate health issues and conditions from puberty to post-menopause, including high blood pressure, stress, fatigue, endometriosis, age-related problems, and more. Emphasizing a balance between hormones and emotions, the book includes concise descriptions of selected acupuncture points, meridians, and orbits that promote long-range anti-aging and long-term optimal health. Women empowered by these benefits can take control of their bodies and better direct and assist their physicians in maintaining their health without the cost, risk, and side effects of pills, hormones, and supplements. Qi Gong for Women also contains useful information on addressing women’s physical and spiritual health for physicians, acupuncturists, and doctors of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).

Reduce Pain and Enhance Your Well-being With Simple Chinese Healing Exercises Improve your health and longevity with 88 easy-to-learn exercises. Gentle enough to be practiced by anyone—regardless of age, gender, or state of health—these exercises can be done for as little as one or two minutes each day to help you: Increase fitness levels Minimize and even reverse many of the signs of aging Extend the healthy years of your life Work on specific health challenges Improve athletic performance Reduce the likelihood of injury Get through the day with more energy and vitality Based on the principles of acupressure, taiji, qigong, and Daoist yoga, each exercise includes illustrations, easy-to-follow instructions, and its physical and energetic benefits. This book also includes an index, so you can look up exercises for specific aches and pains, allergies, digestive disorders, insomnia, stress, and other common health concerns. "A real find . . . A book to refer to again and again!" —Angela Hicks, author of The Principles of Chinese Medicine "An important book for anyone interested in helping him or herself be and stay well . . . I highly recommend the book." —Fritz Frederick Smith, MD, author of The Alchemy of Touch