chee gung (tradition, philosophy, organization, Article, Roman)

[john313]

Salaam,
can anyone recommend and good books or videos on chee gung? i have read Daniel Reid's book on it and a little in different traditional chinese medicine books, but i wanted to learn more.
also, does anyone know of any reliable instructors for chee gung and/or gung fu in the San Diego, California area? i understand it is better to have a good personal instructor to be sure everything is correct for chee gung. thanks for any help

wa salaam

[Jaymes]

I believe you're referring to chi/qigong?

I did a quick Google, and there's a Taoist Sanctuary in San Diego that does Qigong classes... $65 for two classes a week or $50 for one class a week. Tai Chi Healthways also offers classes, but I couldn't find a price and they're once a week.

Sorry I couldn't find any more than that! I'm not really read up on qigong... Wikipedia has a fairly in-depth article on what it is, though, so reading that and avoiding any books that differ from that are probably something to avoid.

Good luck!

[john313]

thanks for the info.
i write it chee since that is how i have heard it pronounced

[Jaymes]

It's cool, since it does sound like that. Romanizing Chinese words can be really hard, and unless you're using a specific system to type them (like pinyin) or you type something like sldgkhj there's not really a 'wrong' way to spell them.

[syoonsh]

Originally Posted by john313

Salaam,
can anyone recommend and good books or videos on chee gung? i have read Daniel Reid's book on it and a little in different traditional chinese medicine books, but i wanted to learn more.
also, does anyone know of any reliable instructors for chee gung and/or gung fu in the San Diego, California area? i understand it is better to have a good personal instructor to be sure everything is correct for chee gung. thanks for any help

wa salaam

John, Perhaps maybe you might be interested seeing this video clip of " Ki-Kong " movement presentation done by "DAHN WORLD". This Ki-Kong is done from Korean,
Dahn World organization. The file is big about 50mb, but I bet for you it will be worth watching.

http://atlas21.linkfile.net/daejeon/...1_20051015.wmv

[Master Vigil]

syoonsh, as a long time chi gong, and traditional korean tang soo do practitioner. The movie was beautiful. Some parts of the form where a little bit impractical from a chi gong standpoint, but still it shows it's korean philosophy in beautiful form.