T'ai Chi Beginners' Practice

Winner of the 2005 Best Educational DVD Aegis Award!

Starring David-Dorian Ross

U.S. and World T'ai Chi medalist David-Dorian Ross' clear, masterful instruction is captured live in this unique DVD filmed in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. The result is a candid, thoughtful expression that's in tune with you as you move, with pointers that both sharpen your form and deepen the benefits. This is THE way to learn T'ai Chi.

David-Dorian guides eight essential t'ai chi ch'uan poses, from Parting the Horse's Mane and to the empowering Crane Spreads Wings. A total-body workout that is more physically charged than its sister practice qigong.

Known as "the ultimate workout" in China, T'ai Chi will give you the benefits of weight training, aerobics or sports conditioning while exercising your mental-spiritual strength at the same time. You'll see more balance in the way you move, think and feel every day.

70 minutes - Click Here to view sample of video

T'ai Chi Daily Practice

Added Bonus - Lower Body Chi Included

Starring David-Dorian Ross

Experience the true pace and flow of T'ai Chi practice. In this program you'll learn new moves and progress past learning the finer points of the individual forms, and on toward weaving them into a flowing routine - your own T'ai Chi daily practice. You will trim, tone and strengthen your body, increase your aerobic capacity, improve your balance, and help create a lasting mind/body awareness. Led by David Dorian-Ross, you will build on beginner moves, with an emphasis on segueing smoothly and confidently from one form to the next.

Includes bonus Lower Body Chi workout.

70 minutes - Click Here to view sample of video

T'ai Chi in Paradise

Starring David-Dorian Ross

Staff favorite!

Shot on the beach in beautiful Oahu, Hawaii, this video leads you step by step through the basic positions, principles and patterns of the words most ancient mind/body exercise. The Yang family 24-movement "short-form" is the most widely practiced Tai Chi Chuan routine in the world. David-Dorian explains the principles and philosophy underlying every move. You'll learn the 24-movement short form, taught in easy-to-absorb, 3-5 movement segments. Ends with a follow-along demo of the complete form.

Includes bonus Lower Body Chi workout.

97 minutes - Click Here to view sample of video

Flow Motion: The Simplified T'ai Chi Workout

Starring - CJ McPhee

Imagine yourself standing under the vibrant blue Hawaiian sky; your body slowly swaying with the rhythm of nature's elements while your hands weave the intricate patterns of self-defense.

This workout is designed to emphasize upper body movement, with limited footwork. This simplified, follow-along format is ideal for beginners, seniors, and the less conditioned student.

48 minutes - Click Here to view sample of video

Lower Body Chi for Beginners

Starring David-Dorian Ross

Lower Body Chi for Beginners strengthens and tones the muscles responsible for balance, coordination and control, by carefully aligning the spine, regulating the breath and developing visualization skills. While performing these simple movements, you will be able to enhance the flow of Qi in the natural energy channels of your body.

Practicing the slow careful movements of this holistic workout every day will bring your body into balance, restore vital energy, and improve health. (Ball not included.)

20 minutes

Upper Body Chi for Beginners

Starring David-Dorian Ross

Combining martial arts, meditation and yoga, the newest 2-program collection of traditional chi movements focuses on total body fitness. Created by David-Dorian Ross, Living Arts® Upper Body Chi for Beginners uses the Weighted Exercise Ball to give you resistance through movement. (Ball not included.)

90 minutes

AM / PM Chi

Starring David-Dorian Ross and CJ McPhee

Like oceans, lakes and rivers, the flow of energy in our bodies rises and falls like the tide.

The morning is the perfect time to awaken the energy in our bodies, harmonize your energy and prepare you to meet the challenges of the day. With David-Dorian Ross.

In the evening, practicing qigong can help you clear out energy blockages that accumulate during the day, and realign the flow of qi. With Carole "CJ" McPhee.

Filmed at sunrise and sunset on the beaches of Maui, this program is designed for people of all ages and levels of fitness.

83 minutes - Click Here to view sample of video

Power Freedom and Flow: Your Journey to Health and Happiness

Power, Freedom and Flow has a simple, yet powerful, message. As human beings, we are by nature perfect and complete. Regardless of how we feel or look, there is nothing wrong with us. All our injuries, illnesses, and aches of the body, mind and Spirit are symptoms of the masks that hide our inner perfection. If we could but peel away those masks, the ultimate health and happiness that lives within us at this very moment would be revealed.

This book has four simple goals:

1. To introduce you to a new holistic way of looking at your life and your health;
2. To give you the power to choose between the Holistic approach or the Conventional approach;
3. To help you discover your BodyMind type - the unique combination of psychological and physiological characteristics that make you who you are;
4. To offer you a set of basic tools that will help you begin your journey to health and happiness. Power, Freedom and Flow is the book you've been waiting for - a guide for the journey to health and happiness.

Exercising the Soul: The Inner World of T'ai Chi

Enter the magical world of T'ai Chi Ch'uan with David-Dorian Ross. Occasionally, we have an epiphany or "Aha" moment, and experience the thrill of enlightenment when we leap ahead of our personal evolution to see ourselves as we could be. Whether we know them as "Peak Experiences" or "Flow States", something remarkable happens in these moments - growth, insight, and spiritual bliss. We emerge forever changed, and experience some kind of glory like the heroes in stories we read as young children.

Catapulted by the simple movements of the T'ai Chi routine in his first class, David-Dorian experienced a moment like this, and that experience changed his life forever. Exercising the Soul is about understanding that phenomenon. David-Dorian contemplates existential questions that many of us ask, "What happened to me in that moment?", "What caused it to happen?", "What can I learn from those moments?", and most importantly, "Can I cause those moments to happen again?".

Join David-Dorian as he shares many amazing and entertaining stories learned straight out of mainland China. And you will be forever changed as you learn the secrets of your own "Aha" moments.

Read an Exerpt of Exercising the Soul

The T'ai Chi Companion Workbook plus T'ai Chi Paradise DVD: Vol. I - The Short Form

Enter the magical world of T'ai Chi Ch'uan with David-Dorian Ross. Occasionally, we have an epiphany or "Aha" moment, and experience the thrill of enlightenment when we leap ahead of our personal evolution to see ourselves as we could be. Whether we know them as "Peak Experiences" or "Flow States", something remarkable happens in these moments - growth, insight, and spiritual bliss. We emerge forever changed, and experience some kind of glory like the heroes in stories we read as young children.

Catapulted by the simple movements of the T'ai Chi routine in his first class, David-Dorian experienced a moment like this, and that experience changed his life forever. Exercising the Soul is about understanding that phenomenon. David-Dorian contemplates existential questions that many of us ask, "What happened to me in that moment?", "What caused it to happen?", "What can I learn from those moments?", and most importantly, "Can I cause those moments to happen again?".

Join David-Dorian as he shares many amazing and entertaining stories learned straight out of mainland China. And you will be forever changed as you learn the secrets of your own "Aha" moments.

Read an Exerpt of Exercising the Soul

The Yoga Teacher's Toolkit

This book is a toolkit for yoga teachers. There are hundreds of books about how to practice yoga, or about yoga philosophy - what I might call "the art of doing yoga". But there is a big difference between the art of doing yoga and the art of teaching yoga. This is a book on the Art of Teaching.

Read an Exerpt of Exercising the Soul

Mastering Flow -- The Six T'ai Chi Secrets to Peak Performance

Mastering Flow is the first of a new series of FREE ebooks on T'ai Chi.

To download your copy, Click here: Mastering Flow

15 Ways that Qi Can Change Your Life

Another great ebook by David-Dorian Ross.

To download your copy, Click here: Mastering Flow

Guided Journeys Into Peace

Narrated by David-Dorian Ross

An Essential Stress Management Resource

Take a trip into the realm of Peace and tranquility with this wonderful audio CD. David-Dorian guides you through two different meditations for stress reduction and relaxation -- one a short 10-minute pick-me-up, and the second a 20 minute experience of healing and energy renewal.

Read an Exerpt of Exercising the Soul

T'ai Chi Swivel Disk Workout

Our Gaiam-exclusive T'ai Chi Swivel Disk Kit enhances the natural learning curve of your continuing T'ai Chi practice. By practicing with one foot on each of these ingenious rotating platforms, you'll strengthen your skill in T'ai Chi moves, stabilize the muscles of your body's core, and generate more power from the rotation of your waist. Guided by David-Dorian Ross, the instructional segment guides you step-by-step on how to use the disks to improve your balance, coordination and strength. Then you'll move on to an entire Beginner's Form — an uninterrupted sequence of movements. Includes a pair of artfully crafted, stowable nonslip disks: 10" diameter.

30 minutes

T'ai Chi Beginners' Kit

Ancient chi masters often used a ball to improve their sensitivity to circular motion. Our T'ai Chi Beginners Kit employs the same content. The soft-grip, 1 lb. weighted Chi Ball adds extra resistance to your movements; its sand-filled spherical shape helps you feel your body-weight shift and amplifies spatial transitions, while increasing your strength and muscle tone. ??Comes with our full-length Upper Body Chi for Beginners DVD, led by David Dorian-Ross to show you how to use the ball as you move your body like waves, clouds and other forms of nature, guided by Ross' visualization cues. A 16-page booklet excerpted from Ross' book Exercising the Soul helps you discover the source of "Ah-ha!" moments in your life and describes his journey of discovery into this ancient art.

45 minutes