Simple Qi Gong for Weight Loss
Gentle Daily Movement for Beginners to Support Healthy WeightBy Laura Chen
Length5h 36m
About this audiobook
You might have tried running, group classes, or all-or-nothing resets. Qi gong earns its place in this book for practical reasons, not mystical ones.
It is soft enough to repeat. The traditional pacing is slow, attentive and scalable, which makes it unusually friendly for readers who are joint-sensitive, returning after injury, living in larger bodies, or simply done with exercise that leaves them too sore to continue. A method you can repeat tomorrow beats a method that impresses today and shelves itself by Friday.
Adult activity guidance encourages both aerobic and muscle-strengthening activity. The marches, walking patterns and open-close shapes in this book lean aerobic-gentle. Bow stance, soft punches and soft core awareness lean strength-gentle. Neither side pretends to be a gym session. Both collect real minutes of movement in a living room.
The first chapter is titled *What This Book Can (and Cannot) Do*, and it is not a formality. There is no claim here that a breathing pattern melts belly fat, no claim that qi gong replaces medical care, and no attempt to sell a mechanism the evidence does not support. What the book offers instead is a twenty-eight-day sequence of short daily sessions, a set of core skills you will reuse every week, and a plain account of how stress, sleep and eating patterns sit alongside movement rather than being solved by it.
The days are specific. Arrive and settle. Arm swings to wake the body. Gentle marching in place. Open and close the arms. A soft twist for digestion comfort. Hip circles and soft knees. Then a linking flow at the end of each week that stitches the week's shapes into one continuous ten minutes.
Every movement is illustrated, every session has a chair-based option, and the safety chapter comes before the practice rather than after it.
Traditional vocabulary is used where it helps and explained where it might mislead. When the book says gather, shake, swing, open, close or collect, those are plain names for practice shapes.
Written for beginners who want gentle daily movement that supports a healthy weight, described accurately.
Audiobook details
GenreHealth and Wellness, Self-Help
Length5 hrs 36 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 15, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Simple Qi Gong for Weight Loss
26Make it yours today
2Closing each session, and adjusting it
27Make it yours today
3Posture reset you will meet again
28Make it yours today
4Identity without performance
29Make it yours today
5Building a week you can keep
30Make it yours today
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6Progress you can trust
31Myth vs Fact
7Seated Soft Core Awareness
32Chapter 8 — Week 4: Own Your Ten Minutes
8Chapter 5 — Week 1: Arrive, Wake, Link
33Make it yours today
9Myth vs Fact
34Make it yours today
10Make it yours today
35Make it yours today
11Myth vs Fact
36Make it yours today
12Make it yours today
37Make it yours today
13Make it yours today
38Make it yours today
14Make it yours today
39Myth vs Fact
15Myth vs Fact
40When weight loss is not happening
16Chapter 6 — Week 2: Shake, Strengthen Gently, Walk
41Perfectionism relapse
17Make it yours today
42Before bed
18Make it yours today
4328-Day Checklist
19Make it yours today
44Quick-Reference Move Index
20Make it yours today
45Citations
21Myth vs Fact
46The End
22Make it yours today
47About the Author
23Make it yours today
48Also by Laura Chen
24Chapter 7 — Week 3: Stress, Intervals, Flows
49Acknowledgements
25Make it yours today
50A Note from the Author
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