Tai Chi for Health: Yang Long Form

One of the essential principles of t’ai chi is complete relaxation, letting the lower body sink as if rooted into the ground while the upper body floats above. The movements are slow, circular, fluid, and balanced. In T’ai Chi for Health: Yang Long For

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Tai Chi for Health: Yang Long Form

Tai Chi For Health Yang Short Form

TAI CHI FOR HEALTH, YANG SHORT FORM with Terry Dunn. This beautiful two-hour program provides complete and detailed instruction in the 37-posture Yang style Short Form of Tai Chi Chuan created by Professor Cheng Man-Ching, one of the greatest Tai Chi masters of the 20th century. The Short Form was adapted from the classical 108-posture Yang Family Long Form specifically to allow western students to learn Tai Chi more easily and requires approximately 10 minutes to perform once it is learned. It is one of the most popular Tai Chi routines, widely practiced throughout North America, Europe, China, Taiwan, S.E. Asia. This DVD is one of the most complete and comprehensive instructional references on Tai Chi and students of all levels use this video for years and years. In the program s core instructional segment running 65 minutes, veteran Tai Chi instructor Terry Dunn offers clear and precise verbal instructions in each Tai Chi movement and posture as he is performing them slowly, bringing to light numerous details and nuances with training anecdotes, and allusions to the Tai Chi Classics and ancient Taoist writings. A running second camera angle window (picture within picture) throughout the instruction gives complete viewing of expert Terry Dunn s movements. Music by Tom Canning and Vangelis. This 2-hour program contains: 1) Historical and philosophical introduction to Tai Chi Chuan. (4 min.) 2) Warm-up Exercises: breathing, basic Tai Chi postures (wu-chi or Universal Post , the the cat stance or sit stance, and the bow stance), and “circling pattern”, also known as Wave Hands Like Clouds done in the bow stance. (40 minutes) 3) Step-by-step instruction in the 37-posture Yang Short Form (65 minutes) 4) Demonstration Flow of entire Short Formby Terry Dunn (10 minutes). Tai Chi for Health Yang Short Form is without doubt the most popular instructional Tai Chi video in North America. According to Nielsen-Videoscan, from 1998 to 2004, Terry Dunn s two Tai Chi for Health DVD s by accounted for 35% of all DVD programs sold in America with the word Chi in their titles (Short Form accounting for 19%; Long Form accounting for 16%). With more than 9 million sold since their release in 1990, Terry Dunn s Tai Chi for Health programs have done more to popularize Tai Chi practice in the West than any other media publication. Originally released on VHS cassette, the latest Tai Chi For Health Short Form DVD features the convenient and user-friendly Select Lessons mode, whereby the viewer can select any Tai Chi posture or exercise in the program and that section is played continuously in a loop until one presses the “next” button–thus affording convenient, hands-free repetitive Form practice.

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New Form of Club Drug 'Poppers' May Pose Risks for Gay Men

By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter

FRIDAY, Jan. 16, 2015 (HealthDay News) — New types of inhaled recreational drugs called “poppers” can contain harmful solvents and propellants that are extremely dangerous, researchers warn.

Traditional poppers became popular decades ago among gay men because they enhance sex by giving a mild high and relaxing smooth muscle. These poppers are based on alkyl nitrites and are related to the medication amyl nitrite.

However, some new products being sold as poppers are actually more dangerous “huffing” solvents that pose serious health risks. Those risks include a potentially deadly heart rhythm disorder called “sudden sniffing death,” experts report in an article published recently in the Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health.

Other potential risks from the new poppers include short-term delirium, memory and thinking problems, and nerve damage, the study authors said in a journal news release.

Despite the increasing use of, and risks posed by, these huffing solvents being marketed as poppers, they have received little attention in the gay or mainstream media or in addiction textbooks, according to a research team led by Dr. Timothy Hall of the University of California, Los Angeles.

Gay men can easily be introduced to these products by sexual partners without being aware of the dangers, Hall and his colleagues said.

Physicians also need to understand the dangers and alert their patients, the study authors added.

Doctors “are taught almost nothing about regular nitrite poppers. They’re little more than a footnote at the back of most addiction textbooks, lumped in with sniffing glue and huffing aerosols, even though the physiologic effects are quite different,” Hall said in the news release.

“Gay and bisexual men, on the other hand, have little exposure to huffing but tend to think of nitrite poppers as fairly benign,” he added. “There’s a real risk here for [gay men] to be taking a much more harmful substance than they’re expecting, and for clinicians not to recognize the difference.”

More information

For more about inhalants, including poppers, go to the Foundation for a Drug-Free World.

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New Form of Club Drug "Poppers" May Pose Risks for Gay Men