Movies Similar to Tai Chi & Qi Gong Basics

Discover Tai Chi for Balance and Mobility(2010)

Discover improved balance, strength, flexibility, and mobility AT ANY AGE with gentle therapeutic Tai Chi-inspired exercise from America's premier Tai Chi and fitness expert, Scott Cole. Guiding you through a delectable continuum of breath, movement, Tai Chi, Chi Kung, Stretching, and Chair Exercise, Discover Tai Chi for Balance and Mobility delivers easy-to-follow effective exercises to help prevent falling, while improving overall balance, strength, flexibility, and mobility. Great for beginners, older adults, and physically challenged, this workout is both fun and effective! The latest release in the top-selling Discover Tai Chi series (Back Care, AM/PM, Weight Loss, and Beginners), Discover Tai Chi for Balance and Mobility features Claire Karstadt, an older adult, whose inspiring story and glorious movement and energy will uplift anyone who has "lost hope" of finding better balance.

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Pushing Hands(1991)

Mr. Chu is an elderly widower who teaches tai chi chuan in Beijing. He moves to America to live with his son's family, but finds the cultural adjustment difficult. Since his daughter-in-law is a white woman who does not speak Chinese, Mr. Chu's son, Alex, must mediate.

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A Journey(2017)

A cinematic journey through the world. Non-verbal.

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Tai Chi - The 24 Forms(2004)

Based on Yang style, this gentle and graceful set contains all essential principles of tai chi and is suitable for students of almost all levels of ability, age and physical fitness.

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Tai Chi For Beginners(2002)

For many years Dr Lam has worked with thousand of instructors and students toward an ideal Tai Chi Program for beginners. He and his team have come up with a fun, easy to remember and still containing the essence of Tai Chi. It is safe, suitable for anyone to improve health, relaxation and fitness. "A journey of a thousand miles starts with the first step."? A Chinese proverb. Let Dr. Lam help

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Eight Simple Qigong Exercises for Health: The Eight Pieces of Brocade(1988)

Dr. Yang Jwing-Ming explains, demonstrates, and discusses the Eight Pieces of Brocade (jian shen ba duan jin), a qigong practice for health and wellbeing. The Eight Pieces of Brocade is a sequence of eight movements intended to build qi, promote blood circulation, assist the immune system, strengthen the internal organs, and energize the body. Dr. Yang teaches both sitting and standing variations of the practice.

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Lift Up by James Lu(1991)

James Lu teaches a qigong breathing method.

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Spring Forest Qigong, Level 1: For Health(2000)

Chunyi Lin teaches introduces viewers to his Spring Forest Qigong system, with a focus on practices for health and wellness.

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Sunrise Tai Chi(2005)

Let the sun shine in! Ramel Rones gently guides you through the morning with a series of powerful mind/body exercises that awaken the senses, stimulate the mind, and fill your body and spirit with abundant energy. This simplified, short t'ai chi ch'uan sequence is practiced to both the left and right for balance. This video is intended to be a comprehensive introduction to tai chi. Rones also offers suggestions to intermediate and advanced students.

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Qigong: Ancient Chinese Healing for the 21st Century(1999)

This documentary introduces viewers to qigong, a 5,000-year-old method of cultivating and circulating the life energy called qi. It relates some of the history of qigong, as well as scientific evidence of efficacy. We also see qigong used in various contexts in modern China, and hear from Chinese doctors and qigong practitioners. The film was originally produced for the Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.

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Qigong: Energy Workouts for Body and Mind (Wuji Short Form)(1999)

Francesco Garripoli and Daisy Lee-Garripoli guide viewers through a moving meditation of gentle, flowing qigong poses; deep breathing; and visualization techniques to enhance the flow of qi. The style of qigong is called wuji qigong or primordial qigong.

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Tai Chi II(1996)

A young Tai Chi master fights Opium smugglers with the aid of his powerful braid while wooing a girl.

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The De-Stress Plan(2001)

This program is a comprehensive routine using tried and tested practices to relax, de-stress and revitalize your body in the fast-paced, modern-day world. Yoga will help you tone and stretch tired and aching muscles, while calming your mind and spirit. Tai Chi will help prepare you to cope with a hectic world. Tai Chi helps you to relax through breath and movement. Meditation will calm and relax your whole body and help distance yourself from stressful situations. Head Massage can be practiced on yourself or a partner - an easy, yet wonderfully effective routine to relax and de-stress.

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Shaolin(2011)

China is plunged into strife as feuding warlords try to expand their power by warring over neighboring lands. Fuelled by his success on the battlefield, young and arrogant Hao Jie sneers at Shaolin's masters when he beats one of them in a duel. But the pride comes before a fall. When his own family is wiped out by a rival warlord, Hao is forced to take refuge with the monks. As the civil unrest spreads and the people suffer, Hao and the Shaolin masters are forced to take a fiery stand against the evil warlords. They launch a daring plan or rescue and escape.

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Man of Tai Chi(2013)

In Beijing, a young martial artist's skill places him in position to experience opportunities and sacrifices.

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Totally Nude Tai Chi(2002)

Five women perform nude tai chi.

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Tai Chi - 6 Forms, 6 Easy Lessons(2000)

Tai Chi: 6 Forms, 6 Easy Lessons moves at a steady and fluid pace that is accessible to all levels of fitness. The instructor, Dr. Paul Lam, condenses this practice into six lessons, taught with meticulous explanation and repetition. The constant recap of each form aids in creating an approachable and easy-to-follow learning environment. Each routine is added piece by piece, which makes comprehending the overall continuity easy. Although effective in practice, video instruction may not be ideal in theory because Tai Chi lacks the same calming effects when performed in front of the television set. But this method offers such practical and basic instruction that all levels will soon be doing Tai Chi in the atmosphere of their choice. Each of the segments can be put together to form a cohesive and continuous workout or performed separately if participants want to zero in on specific forms.

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Aftersun(2022)

Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories fill the gaps between camcorder footages as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the troubled man she didn't.

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Tai Chi Hero(2012)

Chinese steampunk martial arts blockbuster about the early years of Tai chi master Yang Luchan, the man who founded in the 19th century what has now become the most popular Tai Chi style in the world. The second instalment of the "Tai Chi" trilogy continues the journey of Yang Luchan, a gifted child with a fleshy growth on his forehead who helped save a village from a frightening army of steampunk soldiers bearing strange machines with the knowledge of Tai Chi that they entrusted him with.

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Nude Tai Chi(1996)

Three women perform nude tai chi.

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