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6: Simple Chi Kung Exercises

1. For a complete description of the jade egg exercises, see Mantak Chia’s Healing Love through the Tao (Rochester, Vt.: Destiny Books, 2005).

7: Guidelines for Simple Chi Kung

1. For more information on cultivating sexual energy, see Mantak Chia’s books Healing Love through the Tao (Rochester, Vt.: Destiny Books, 2005) and Sexual Reflexology (Rochester, Vt.: Destiny Books, 2003).

About the Authors

MANTAK CHIA

Mantak Chia has been studying the Taoist approach to life since childhood. His mastery of this ancient knowledge, enhanced by his study of other disciplines, has resulted in the development of the Universal Healing Tao system, which is now being taught throughout the world.

Mantak Chia was born in Thailand to Chinese parents in 1944. When he was six years old, he learned from Buddhist monks how to sit and “still the mind.” While in grammar school he learned traditional Thai boxing, and he soon went on to acquire considerable skill in aikido, yoga, and Tai Chi. His studies of the Taoist way of life began in earnest when he was a student in Hong Kong, ultimately leading to his mastery of a wide variety of esoteric disciplines, with the guidance of several masters, including Master I Yun, Master Meugi, Master Cheng Yao Lun, and Master Pan Yu. To better understand the mechanisms behind healing energy, he also studied Western anatomy and medical sciences.

Master Chia has taught his system of healing and energizing practices to tens of thousands of students and trained more than two thousand instructors and practitioners throughout the world. He has established centers for Taoist study and training in many countries around the globe. In June of 1990, he was honored by the International Congress of Chinese Medicine and Qi Gong (Chi Kung), which named him the Qi Gong Master of the Year.

LEE HOLDEN

Lee Holden is a senior instructor of the Universal Tao and of Master Mantak Chia’s teachings. He has been studying with Master Chia since he was eighteen years old. Lee first discovered the healing power of Chi Kung after experiencing injuries that nearly sidelined his varsity soccer career at UC Berkeley. Impressed at how these ancient practices healed his body and allowed him to return to playing, he made their study a priority. Today, he is an internationally known instructor in meditation, tai chi, and Chi Kung, as well as a licensed acupuncturist, herbalist, and author (7 Minutes of Magic: The Ultimate Energy Workout, Penguin 2007).

Lee has been on staff with Mantak Chia and Deepak Chopra, teaching, writing, and facilitating seminars and workshops around the world. In addition, his popular library of Chi Kung DVDs have made him a regular fixture on PBS stations throughout the United States and Canada. Holden is a graduate of UC, Berkeley, with a B.A. in Psychology and is a licensed acupuncturist in the state of California. He is the owner of the Santa Cruz Integrative Medicine and Chi Center in northern California.

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