The Easy Qi Gong Book for Seniors
Gentle 10-Minute Daily Routines for Balance, Energy, and CalmBy Laura Chen
Length5h 26m
About this audiobook
Qi gong is a family of traditional Chinese movement and breath practices. Across schools and centuries, teachers have used standing postures, soft arm patterns, gentle shaking and coordinated breathing as a daily cultivation method.
In older texts, teachers speak of qi as a kind of vital influence moving through the body. This book respects that cultural history without turning it into a medical promise.
Here, qi gong means four things: slow repeated shapes, soft joints, coordinated breath, and short daily sessions you can do standing or in a chair. When the book says gather, shake, swing, open, close or collect, those are plain-English names for practice shapes, not claims that invisible forces are curing disease.
You can treat the traditional vocabulary as poetry sitting beside a modern gentle-movement class. Both readings are allowed, and the book says so directly rather than leaving the reader to guess which one is meant.
Research has studied tai chi and qi gong-style practices for outcomes related to balance, mobility and well-being in older adults. Results vary by study design and population, and the book reports that variation rather than selecting the flattering studies.
The structure is twenty-eight days of ten-minute routines. Week one arrives and softens: settling, waking the small joints, shaking the wrists, a soft whole-body shake, arm swings, opening and closing the chest, and then a linking session that collects the week into one flow. The later weeks build on those shapes without ever requiring anything faster or deeper than the first week asked for.
Before any of it there is a chapter on breath and warm-up, a chapter on safety and pacing, and a chapter about the chair, which is treated as a legitimate place to practise rather than as a fallback for people who have failed at standing.
Every figure is illustrated and described in plain words, with a note on what you should feel and a clear signal for when to stop.
Written for older adults who want ten quiet minutes a day, a practice that does not require a class or a floor, and an author who tells them what is known and what is not.
Audiobook details
GenreHealth and Wellness, Self-Help
Length5 hrs 26 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 15, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Easy Qi Gong Book for Seniors
25Cool-down
2The 10-minute container
26Cool-down
3Small-joint warm-up
27Cool-down
4How to hold the traditional words
28Cool-down
5What progress looks like
29Cool-down
Mostrar todos os capítulosVer menos
6A note on comparison
30Myth vs Fact
7Light Shoulder Tapping (Optional)
31Cool-down
8Chapter 5 — Week 1: Arrive & Soften
32Chapter 8 — Week 4: Flow & Habit
9Myth vs Fact
33Cool-down
10Cool-down
34Cool-down
11Cool-down
35Myth vs Fact
12Cool-down
36Cool-down
13Myth vs Fact
37Cool-down
14Cool-down
38Cool-down
15Myth vs Fact
39Myth vs Fact
16Chapter 6 — Week 2: Circulate & Open
40What to release
17Cool-down
41If pain or swelling is new
18Cool-down
42Quick-Reference Move Index
19Cool-down
43Citations
20Myth vs Fact
44The End
21Cool-down
45About the Author
22Cool-down
46Also by Laura Chen
23Myth vs Fact
47Acknowledgements
24Chapter 7 — Week 3: Legs & Steady Power
48A Note from the Author
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