Guigen Qigong: Easy to learn self-healing exercises for health and vitality.
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View Official Website	Release Date: 2005-07-06 Running Time: 0:35 Content Rating: GA (General Audience)	DVD Region: All Regions Media Format: DVD-R Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Audio Language(s): English
Genres: Exercise & Fitness >> Tai Chi/Qigong :: Instructional >> Self-Improvement :: Special Interests >> Outdoor Recreation Influences: Tai Chi, Yijing, Daoism, Chinese Medicine, Acupuncture, Meditation.

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Guigen Qigong presented by Suzanne Friedman, L.Ac., MMQ

Easy to learn self-healing exercises for health and vitality.

The exercises in this video were designed to promote and maintain health, restore energy levels, and calm the mind. Qigong practice combines the use of breathwork, physical movement, and intention. Affirmation, visualization, and imagination are all utilized to enhance qi flow to particular target areas in the body. As the Chinese say, "Where the mind goes, the qi follows."

Guigen Qigong is a medical qigong exercise regimen designed by Dr. Xu Hongtao of Beijing, China. "Guigen" means a return to one's primordial home, or a return to the Tao. The practice is divided into sections according to the creation cycle of the five elements: earth, metal, water, wood, and fire. Each section focuses on the particular energetic channels (meridians) and internal organs associated with that element.

Release date: 2005-06-06
Running Time: 0:35
Content Rating GA (General Audience)
DVD Region: All Regions
Media Format: NTSC-DVD
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Audio Language(s): English

Genres: Health, Instructional, Exercise & Fitness, Documentary, New Age, Special Interests.

Influences: Tai Chi, Yijing, Daoism, Chinese Medicine, Acupuncture, Meditation.

Cast: Dr. Suzanne Friedman
Voice Over Narrator: Dr. Suzanne Friedman http://www.daoclinic.org/index.html

Producer: Rebecca A. Blumen http://www.blumensculpture.com/pages/bio.html
Disc Remaster: Calvin Fahey

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Guigen Qigong Program Director: Dr. Suzanne Friedman | bio
The Director of the program, Dr. Suzanne Friedman, is a licensed acupuncturist, nationally certified herbalist, and a doctor of medical qigong therapy. She received her doctorate degree (D.M.Q.) in Medical Qigong Oncology from the Beijing Western District Medical Qigong Science and TCM Research Institute in Beijing, China.

Dr. Friedman has master's degrees in Traditional Chinese Medicine and Medical Qigong Therapy. She completed a post-graduate medical qigong program in Beijing, China under Dr. Xu Hongtao at the Xiyuan hospital, and is one of the few Americans certified by Dr. Xu to teach his form of medical qigong (called Guigen Qigong). Dr. Friedman founded the San Francisco Branch of the International Institute of Medical Qigong, now a division of Breath of the Dao, after intensive training with Dr. Jerry Alan Johnson, one of the few internationally recognized non-Chinese grandmasters of Medical Qigong Therapy.

Dr. Friedman practices Shen/Hammer Chinese pulse diagnosis and Dr. Richard Tan's Balance Method for the treatment of pain. Dr. Friedman is a trained Cancer Guide, having received a scholarship to participate in the Center for Mind-Body Medicine's comprehensive Cancer Guide course in integrative oncology.

Dr. Friedman is the Chair of the Medical Qigong Science Department and Dean of the Medical Qigong Clinic at the Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine College in Berkeley, California.

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Production Company: Lejla Sestic, CEO hqone2one | bio
My Goal: To be the best producer catering to all my client’s marketing needs right from conceptualization, creation, marketing, promotion & distribution by showcasing commercials, corporate films, documentary films & feature films on an international platform in my drive to make it in the Entertainment industry. http://www.hqone2one.com/
Director of Photography: Frazer Bradshaw
Production Designer: Christina Ray
Sound Editor: Chris Forrest
Composer: Patrick Krouchian
Producer: Rebecca A. Blumen | bio
Rebecca A. Blumen is a stone and glass sculptor living in San Francisco, California. To complement her stone carving, Becca also blows glass and creates glass sculptures. She has a degree in Visual Arts from Hampshire College and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Becca entered the art world at age 17 as a black & white photographer. Her portfolio earned her a scholarship to college based on artistic and academic promise. Becca's background in photography trained her eyes and taught her composition. Her experience in film added movement to her photography. Stone sculpting has taken her art from 2-D to 3-D, adding touch and texture, which allow the viewer to have a more intimate interaction with her art. Becca has studied stone sculpting with Karen Ryer, Robert Milhollin, and Matt Auvinen.

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Dr. Xu Hongtao | show/hide snippet
Guigen Qigong or Guigen Gong is created by Dr. Xu Hongtao, which is based on his decades of clinical practice, teaching and researches. It is composed of one set of exercises for holistic adjustment and several sets of specialized exercises for different chronic diseases in different systems. Its theory and practicing methods is mainly originating from TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) and the regimen philosophy of Taoist.

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