Zhan Zhuang: The Art of Nourishing Life

by Yong Nian Yu, Karim Nimri (Prologue by), Brittany Leotaud (Translator)

Overview

Zhan Zhuang, the Art of Nourishing Life is the exploration of an ancestral practice: Zhan Zhuang, the practice of physical and meditative postures. Through this practice, a continual process of adjustment, learning, and purification takes place; it is a process by which the mind and body mutually integrate, triggering the unification of the self and its surroundings.

It is through this form, which in ancient China was named symbiosis--a process by which the mind and body merge together with the Tao--that an infinite field of possibilities opens to us, both in the treatment and prevention of diseases, and at the level of development of latent potential within us.

In Zhan Zhuang, The Art of Nourishing Life, Dr. Yu Yongnian not only unveils the heritage of martial and purifying arts--previously available only in an unintelligible language--but also translates them into an accessible form that reveals the laws governing the body and the mind.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9787807091981
Publisher:	Discovery Publisher
Publication date:	07/27/2018
Edition description:	Eco ed.
Pages:	182
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.42(d)

Table of Contents

Prologue

Interview with Dr. Yu Yongnian

Chapter I : Introduction

1. Medical effects of Standing Like a Tree

2. Reactions after Standing Like a Tree

3. Precautions to take during the training

Chapter II : Upright Position

1. Different positions in Standing Like a Tree

2. Main positions in Standing like a Tree ; standing

Chapter III : How does one master the intensity of the Zhan Zhuang movement ?

1. The choice between the practice of the hand or the foot

2. Classification of the different intensities of movement

3. Movement Intensity Factors

4. Calculation of the Intensity of Movement

5. The principle of adjustment and distribution on Yi (purpose) and Xing (posture)

6. Coordination or Xing (posture), YI (Intention), Li (strength), Qi (energy) and Shen (vigour)

7. Relationship between the degree of flexion and the intensity of movement

Chapter IV : The Work of Intention in Zhan Zhuang

1. The Action of Relaxation

2. The Action of Imagination

3. Flexible muscle movement

4. Action of connecting

5. The action of pulling the tendon

Chapter V : The Theory of Zhan Zhuang

1. The relation Between Medicine and Physical Activities

2. Diagram explaining how Zhan Zhuang works and its evolution of work

3. Discussion on the definition of stability and movement in stability

4. Application of flexible movement to “ contraction and relaxation ” exercises of the bottom of the foot

Chapter VI : A Study on Qi (Energy)

1. What is Qi ?

3. Test of External Qi

Chapter VII : A Study on the “ Object ”

1. What is the “ Object ” ?

2. The object described by Laozi

3. Relations between Qi (Energy), Strength, Object and Tao

4. To forget while in a seated position and to create in Tao

5. The most important use of the “ Object ”

6. The “ Object ” of Yi Quan

Chapter VIII : The Quest for the “ Object ” Through Standing Like a Tree

1. Categorizing of the “ Object ”

2. Tao method

3. Method of medicine

4. The Confucius method

5. Taoism and Buddhism Methods

6. Difference between Standing Like a Tree and Qi Gong (Qi practice)

7. The Development of Standing Like a Tree in Modern Times

Chapter IX : The “ Object ”, or The Second Voluntary Movement

1. Categories of Movement

2. Primary Voluntary Movement

3. Secondary Voluntary Movement

4. Change in heartbeat in secondary voluntary movement

5. Series of training in Standing Like a Tree

6. Application of Standing Like a Tree

7. Conclusion