Books on Qi

[Dan]

Hi Everybody,

 

I am a relative beginner in Qigong, using a particular set of instructionals online from a highly experienced and long time teacher and with downloadable materials. I believe it is of high quality - good pedigree and painstaking texts and illustrations.

 

BUT: I want a well-known, recommended text----that is accessible for an intelligent layperson, a beginning practitioner----on qi, its various forms, the abstract and theoretical, its relationship to the breath, and how it works in practice, phenomenologically.

 

I have seen books - Yang Jwing Ming, Damo Mitchell among others - but it gets rough, confusing, for me, a beginner.

 

The issue is both that of correct theory, in TCM and internal arts, and good presentation - for a modern, educated readership. Rather than arcane points of detail.

 

Any suggestions or advice from any instructors / practitioners with many years experience?

 

Thank you in advance.

 

Dan

[ilumairen]

Welcome Dan, and best of luck in your quest.

[Dan]

Thank you. 

[Cobie]

Hi Dan. Welcome to the forum. 

[Dan]

Hi Cobie, thanks for the welcome. 

[Dainin]

Hi Dan, two books that I think meet your criteria and would recommend are The Way of Qigong by Kenneth S. Cohen and The Healing Promise of Qi by Roger Jahnke.

[Dan]

Thanks very much, Dainin.