Techniques and practices for skin renewal and ageless vitality
• Explores ancient Taoist wisdom and Chi Kung methods to restore the skin’s ability to renew itself by regenerating your skin’s chi, or vital energy
• Presents easy step-by-step instructions for detoxifying techniques, circulation-enhancing activities, and energy cultivation for a radiant complexion
• Shares Taoist secrets for beautiful hair and looks at the connections between beauty and emotions
Presenting a holistic approach to skin health, Taoist Master Mantak Chia and skin care expert Anna Margolina, Ph.D., share ancient Taoist wisdom and Chi Kung practices for a radiant complexion and ageless beauty.
The authors explain how Beauty Chi Kung exercises restore the skin’s ability to renew itself by regenerating your skin’s chi, or vital energy. They offer Taoist energy-cultivation practices that work with the body’s major systems to promote optimum circulation, relax muscular tension, reduce inflammation, restore immune system balance, and recharge your batteries to ensure the vitality of your body’s outermost layer. Looking at common challenges to skin health, the authors reveal the key role of the skin in detoxification and what needs to be done to ensure the toxins your body is expelling do not stagnate at the skin level.
Exploring skin renewal, the authors detail the practice of Stem Cell Chi Kung, showing how hydration and vibration can activate stem cells to support deep and extensive renewal of the skin’s surface. They also look at several of Master Chia’s classic Universal Healing Tao breathing and circulation practices that can help support inner and outer beauty.
Revealing how to cultivate not only physical but also spiritual beauty, this Taoist guide to energetic skin care presents powerful and effective methods for achieving youthful radiance and glowing health at any age.
Table of Contents:
Foreword: Improving Skin from the Inside Out
by Jutta Kellenberger-Reichert
Acknowledgments
Putting Beauty Chi Kung into Practice
Introduction: Why Beauty Products Don’t Work
1 • Beauty Is More than Skin-Deep
2 • Taoist Secrets of Vitality and Vibrancy
3 • The Yin and Yang of Skin Renewal
4 • The Five Elements and Inner Smile for Radiant Skin
5 • Breathing Life into Skin
6 • Vibrating the Body to Support Skin Stem Cells
7 • Beauty and Emotions
8 • Preserving Youthful Beauty with the Microcosmic Orbit
9 • Sexual Energy Cultivation for Beauty
10 • Iron Shirt Chi Kung to Maintain Strength and Beauty
11 • Common Skin Problems
12 • Five Elements Nutrition for Skin Beauty
13 • Chi Kung for Beautiful Hair
14 • Beauty Chi Kung for Youthful Skin at Any Age
Notes
Recommended Reading
About the Authors
The Universal Healing Tao System and Training Center
Index
