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Bagua Daoyin: A Unique Branch of Daoist Learning-a Secret Skill of the Palace | 
 enlarge | Author: He Jinghan
Creator: David Alexander
Publisher: Singing Dragon
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 423418
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 159
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 7 x 0.5
ISBN: 1848190093
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.815
EAN: 9781848190092
ASIN: 1848190093
Publication Date: June 15, 2008
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Book Description
Bagua Daoyin emphasizes the perception and training of muscles (jin), bones (gu) and skin (pi), and combines elements of fitness, martial arts and medical science in order to promote harmony and balance in the body and mind.
Master He, a fifth generation practitioner of the BaguaQuan line, sets out a programme of study underpinned by theory. He explains the development of Bagua Daoyin from a refinement of Daoist studies into a method of training the body and mind in which every external movement is echoed in the inner tissue of the body. Bagua Daoyin opens up the joints of the body and relaxes the muscles, encouraging an awareness of the body and posture at all times. With simple body movements, one can channel the hidden flow of Qi, or energy, and blood, giving a new lease of life to zones of the body that have lost their vitality and promoting a sense of tranquillity.
This fully illustrated guide to Bagua Daoyin will be essential reading for Bagua and Tai Chi practitioners at all levels, students of martial arts and anyone interested in Chinese culture.
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 enjoyed it August 15, 2008
Having studeied bagua and trained in China with Bagua teacher, i was able to link the positons together and enjoy this form.
 Deceptive and misleading July 29, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book will not teach anyone Dao yin, of any kind. The majority of the book is a collection of essays translated from a book in Chinese by He Jinghan. The translator is the father of a student of master He, who had "little experience of Chinese martial arts(pg 9)" before attempting the translation. This shows.
If you are involved in neijia chuan, neigong, qigong etc then this part of the book may well be helpful as an aid to your studies, or might not.
However the actual set of exercises is shown only through photo's with little or no description, let alone ANY explanation of HOW to perform these movements. Quite often you just have three photos on a page and NO text of any kind, or simply "Hug the body, it needs to be very relaxed(pg 125)". As such i find it highly doubtful anyone would be able to learn anything of actual value from attempts to use it as a learning tool (i don't even think the photo sequence would be great as a reminder for those studying this 'dao yin' set).
Granted the photo's are well shot, but the sequencing of them with no markers for changes of direction or 'the movement in between' simply leaves them as nothing other than a pretty presentation of someone going through a Chinese set of exercises. The description of "sequences of photographs set out a programme of study, showing the beauty of the movements, and the positions and transitions the practitioner is aiming for (Backcover)" is highly deceptive and misleading.
If you already know qigong, neigong, etc then maybe you could use that knowledge and understanding to piece together this sequence of movements, but then why bother you would be better off sticking to what you have already learned. I have no doubt that this 'daoyin' would be good to learn from Master He jinghan, but you won't do it through this book.
As such i find this book, which advertises itself as introducing and teaching ba gua dao yin, as deceptive and misleading as it does nothing of the sort. I am not even sure why the authors use the term 'dao yin' except to capitalize upon the rarity of the term these days. It at most discusses concepts commonly found in qigong and neigong, which can also be found in many other books.
This book, while nicely presented is style over substance, there is FAR better out there.
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