Taijiquan: The Art of Nurturing, The Science of Power (HARD COVER BOOK)

Taijiquan: The Art of Nurturing, The Science of Power represents the think-ing, experience, and straightforward confidences of an acknowledged master of Taijiquan. This is a book replete with life-wisdom. For Master Yang, Taiji is a spiritual practice as well as martial discipline.

The cornerstone of Taiji development lies in effectively training in ways that promote health, relaxed strength, balance, integrity, and spiritual well-being as the necessary foundations for and accompaniments of real martial advancement. To build upon this foundation and take these gains to their highest level, Yang explains, requires in students the presence and continued development of solid moral character, what some have called martial virtue. This book should be the central volume in any Taijiquan practitioner's library.

Testimonials:

• Good information, clearly organized.

• Deep research, carefully explained.

• Chinese and Western thought, skillfully blended.

• Traditional ideas, well preserved.

• Contemporary views, insightfully shared.

  This is a valuable book for every beginner and for all us long-timers."

  —Pat Rice, Director, A Taste of China

“Congratulations on a beautiful book . . . we produce between 20 to 30 titles per day and for some reason this book jumped out at me and I had to learn more . . . The book is well designed with an excellent selection of materials, fonts and illustrations that really compliment the subject. This is the way a book should be "packaged."

—Myron Marsh, President-CEO, Thomson-Shore, Inc.

Yang Yang has produced an important and masterful contribution to our knowledge of taijiquan. It is great for both beginners and advanced practitioners and demonstrates again what the West can learn from the East."

—Ted Kaptchuk, author of The Web That Has No Weaver: Understanding Chinese Medicine.

Master Yang is clear and precise in his declarations of both the fundamentals and advanced theories and principles of the internal arts. This book presents a wealth of information that will help students, regardless of their current level, to learn the true theory and essence of Taijiquan and establish a solid foundation in the internal arts."

—Grandmaster Henry Look, Founder and Honorary Chairman, Guang Ping Yang Tai Chi Association, Founder and President, I- Chuan Association, U.S.A.