Ai Chi - Balance Harmony and Healing. This item is unavailable.Ai Chi - Balance Harmony and Healing

This is a second book on Ai Chi. Ai Chi is a water exercise and relaxation program that has been created to help aquatic practitioners and students decrease stress and increase energy by using the water in a flowing yet powerful progression. This comprehensive, in-depth book takes experienced practitioners to a new level of Ai Chi practice, yet will be useful to the novice as well. Aquatic exercise instructors, personal trainers, and aquatic therapy and rehabilitation practitioners will find the Ai Chi workout versatile. For aquatic exercise instructors it is an efficient exercise program that increases oxygen and caloric consumption simply with correct form and positioning in the water. Personal trainers will find it a perfect relaxation technique for their highly stressed, over-challenged clients. Aquatic therapy and rehabilitation practitioners will see improved range of motion and mobility in their patients. Ai Chi, created by combining Tai-Chi concepts with Shiatsu and Watsu techniques, is performed standing in shoulder depth water using a combination of deep breathing and slow, broad movements of the arms, legs, and torso. The book compares the traditional Ai Chi program for an average healthy adult with modifications for special populations. Ai Chi Ne (partner stretching) and Cultivating the Chi (advanced Ai Chi positions) are defined and illustrated. New offerings in this book include Ai Chi Ne (partner stretching), Ai Chi in-depth, Cultivating the Chi (new Ai Chi positions), practical teaching information, pool teaching scripts for a varied learning focus, Ai Chi for special populations, the autonomic nervous system, the para-sympathetic and sympathetic systems, breathing techniques and benefits, and physical positioning. The program and progression was created by Jun Konno, president of Aqua Dynamics, Inc., Yokohama, JAPAN. Mr