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Author: Livia Kohn
Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
Imprint: University of Hawai'i Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.90cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 22.30cm
Weight: 0.450kg
ISBN: 9780824832698
ISBN 10: 0824832698
Pages: 344
Publication Date: 30 September 2008
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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General/trade
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Professional & Vocational
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Livia Kohn is absolutely the source on the origins and great luminaries of Qigong, Tai Chi, and Chinese Healing Exercises, or Chinese Yoga. As the world's appetite for stress mastery, wellness, and complementary medicine grows and the fields of health promotion and personal empowerment explode, there is a need for accurate reflection on the origins of China's ancient power tools for well-being, healing, and longevity. Based on sound scholarship and accessible to a wide audience, this book fulfills that need. -- Roger Jahnke, OMD
Livia Kohn is absolutely the source on the origins and great luminaries of Qigong, Tai Chi, and Chinese Healing Exercises, or Chinese Yoga. As the world's appetite for stress mastery, wellness, and complementary medicine grows and the fields of health promotion and personal empowerment explode, there is a need for accurate reflection on the origins of China's ancient power tools for well-being, healing, and longevity. Based on sound scholarship and accessible to a wide audience, this book fulfills that need. -- Roger Jahnke, OMD Livia Kohn is absolutely the source on the origins and great luminaries of Qigong, Tai Chi, and Chinese healing exercises. As the world's appetite for stress mastery, wellness, and complementary medicine grows and the fields of health promotion and personal empowerment explode, there is a need for accurate reflection on the origins of China's ancient power tools for well-being, healing, and longevity. Based on sound scholarship and accessible to a wide audience, this book fulfills that need.--Roger Jahnke OMD, Institute of Integral Qigong and Tai Chi
Livia Kohn is absolutely the source on the origins and great luminaries of Qigong, Tai Chi, and Chinese healing exercises. As the world s appetite for stress mastery, wellness, and complementary medicine grows and the fields of health promotion and personal empowerment explode, there is a need for accurate reflection on the origins of China s ancient power tools for well-being, healing, and longevity. Based on sound scholarship and accessible to a wide audience, this book fulfills that need.--Roger Jahnke OMD, Institute of Integral Qigong and Tai Chi
Author Information
Livia Kohn is professor emerita of religion and East Asian studies at Boston University.
