John Bright-Fey

Achieve a healthy, balanced bodymind with these simple exercises that help reduce stress, improve focus and concentration, and boost your overall strength and circulation.

'I've tried to learn other styles of tai chi but it was too confusing for me. I can do new forest tai chi and it has really helped my balance.'-Sara Clark, age 83.

'Innovative...exciting...anone can do it. The benefits are healing as well as preventative.'-Cecil Long, MD

'I see many people searching for tools to help them manage the stress in their lives and achieve some sense of internal balance. Bright-Fey's approach is easy to learn and easily fits into even the busiest schedule. No prior experience is necessary-I highly recommend it!'-Alesia B. Adams, Licensed Professional Counselor

Includes 15-minute audio CD personal 'training' session and 'Routine at a Glance' reference sheet.

Contents

Foreword
The beauty of tai chi
What is tai chi?
New forest tai chi-Tai chi breath; simple tai chi breathing; The inner landscape of tai chi
The new forest '1 through 10' game
Drawing the tai chi diagram
The secret of teh new forest
The routine
Intermediate tai chi breating
Traditional Chinese medicine and tai chi
An extra sip: Tai chi philosophy-Selected chapters from the Tao Te Ching
Tai chi and Chinese calligraphy
About the author
The routine at a glance… (plus d'informations)

Achieve a healthy, balanced bodymind with these simple exercises that help reduce stress, improve focus and concentration, and boost your overall strength and circulation.

'I've tried to learn other styles of tai chi but it was too confusing for me. I can do new forest tai chi and it has really helped my balance.'-Sara Clark, age 83.

'Innovative...exciting...anone can do it. The benefits are healing as well as preventative.'-Cecil Long, MD

'I see many people searching for tools to help them manage the stress in their lives and achieve some sense of internal balance. Bright-Fey's approach is easy to learn and easily fits into even the busiest schedule. No prior experience is necessary-I highly recommend it!'-Alesia B. Adams, Licensed Professional Counselor

Includes 15-minute audio CD personal 'training' session and 'Routine at a Glance' reference sheet.

Contents

Foreword
The beauty of tai chi
What is tai chi?
New forest tai chi-Tai chi breath; simple tai chi breathing; The inner landscape of tai chi
The new forest '1 through 10' game
Drawing the tai chi diagram
The secret of teh new forest
The routine
Intermediate tai chi breating
Traditional Chinese medicine and tai chi
An extra sip: Tai chi philosophy-Selected chapters from the Tao Te Ching
Tai chi and Chinese calligraphy
About the author
The routine at a glance… (plus d'informations)

Of the two dozen or so translations of the Tao Te Ching that I've read, John Bright-Fey's is the worst. It's so weirdly overwrought and off the point that it seems to lack any meaningful value whatsoever. It purports to clarify, but only obscures with overuse of self-important phrasing and far too much explanation. It calls to mind several phrases, borrowed from my memory of several different translations (but not John Bright-Fey's): He who speaks does not know; he who knows does not speak. The tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao.

It reads like someone who has been steeped in some kind of dogma, and never really understood what the original text meant, but imposed some wishes for what it should mean upon it and assumed correctness. Needless to say, I am not a fan.

This is a bad book, and a bad translation. Avoid it. I couldn't even force myself to finish it. Read Stephen Mitchell's instead.… (plus d'informations)

Modernization of Patanjali's nearly 200 aphorisms of his Yoga Sutras to be comprehended by asanas, mudras, colors, mandalic shapes, etc. Patanjali's audience is the Indian musician of his day--what we think of today as yoga (poses) are only a part of a comprehensive experience by body, mind, soul, spirit, chakric system, ear, eye, body movement, all illuminating, each in its way the sparse sentences of an aphorism. This system of uniting the art of music to spiritual development (think the Music Master of Hesse's "Magister Ludi", but of other arts.… (plus d'informations)