Qigong for Beginners
by Michael Badertscher
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Actor: GarripoliDirector: Michael Badertscher
Brand: GT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 152 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-04-01
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: 05-52884
Studio: Gaiam
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- TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR HEALTH AND WELL BEING AT ANY AGE OR FITNESS LEVEL These easy-to-learn moving meditations will help you boost your immunity and live healthier and longer. Qigong s gentle, flowing poses, deep breathing rhythms and visualization techniques enhance the flow of Qi (energy) that fuels your movements, thoughts and emotions. Used to prevent and cure diseases from hypertension to c
DVD Reviews of Qigong for Beginners
DVD Review: Not just for beginners!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of the best Qigong videos available, for the practices as well as the production quality. And the price is great too, seeing as you're basically getting 2 DVD's worth of material for the price of one. The instructors, Francesco and Daisy Lee Garripoli, are very pleasant and peaceful to watch and follow along with. Francesco's sincerity is apparent in every movement.
Disc 1 consists of the practices. The first part is the Wuji Short Form and consists of three exercises (totaling about 15 minutes): Wuji Swimming Dragon to loosen the joints, Dragon Pearl to increase lung capacity and develop core strength, and Bagua Xun Dao Gong to stretch and strengthen the legs (that's how they're described on the back cover). These three exercise alone are a nice workout by themselves.
Next follows the Wuji Long Form, which is about 40 minutes. There are 18 exercises in this routine - an opening and closing movement and 16 inner movements (all with Chinese names like Rou, Chai, Jian, Tuoa, etc.). Once learnt, you're instructed to do the inner 16 in a random order each time you practice. Of course, you don't have to do the entire set every time, you can choose whatever exercises you want (I certainly have my favorites). As another reviewer noted, there are a lot of detailed arms-out-in-front movements and a lot of upper body focus and emphasis on stretching with the arms (more so than most Qigong I've seen or done), and a few movements are a bit complicated, which turned me off a little at first, but I have grown to love these practices anyway. They are great for the spine, and especially if you carry a lot of tension in the neck, arms or back. It's also been helpful with digestive issues and tension in the lower abdomen (there are a lot of waist twisting movements). I feel stronger every time I practice. It is truly a whole body workout and you will feel it in the best possible way.
The practices conclude with the Shaolin Self-Massage techniques, which are typically done at the end of a session, although they can be done by themselves as well: Face Washing, Scalp Massage, Ear Massage, Eye Energizing, Sinus Energizing, TMJ Relaxing, Leg Stimulation, Kidney Energizing, Rag Doll Shaking, and Toss Off Stagnant Chi.
There is also an inspiring 13-minute interview with Francesco Garripoli on Disc 1. The entirety of Disc 2 is an hour-long Qigong documentary produced by him. It's been a while since I've watched it but I thought it was excellent. In one part, you can see the 90-something year old Chinese master that taught Francesco the Wuji form doing a few of the movements. Then there is another interview with Francesco talking about the making of the doc.
The only drawback to this DVD set is that Disc 1 does not have a menu where you can go right to a certain exercise; instead you have to manually skip through each chapter, but considering how otherwise fantastic the DVD is, that's not a big deal to me. I can't understand giving it a low rating for that alone; you'd have to push as many buttons to navigate a menu anyway. I do think a practice matrix (like on a few yoga videos I've seen) would have made it absolutely perfect. Or even better, a function that automatically scrambled the inner 16 Wuji exercises so you get a different order each time you play it (since you're encouraged to do them randomly). But that's a small complaint overall. Also, although this DVD is titled as if for beginners, it's really not. It's for any level. In fact, some absolute beginners might be turned off by the relative complexity of some of the movements as well as the number of practices. If you want simpler, shorter practices check out the Garripoli's other 2 DVD's ("Qigong For Cleansing"and "Qigong For Stress Relief"), also quite good.
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