Sifu Peter Newton is a registered senior instructor and honorary vice president of the Tai Chi Union for Great Britain. An expert in his field, he specializes in medical tai chi, applying tai chi and qigong as a remedial therapy to alleviate ailments. With more than forty years of experience and training directly with Chinese masters, Peter lives in Llandudno, Wales.

“As a retired doctor of psychotherapy I am particularly interested in the psychological and physical impact this book will offer, ensuring good health and longevity. In addition to psychology, much of my professional career has been as a singer and singing teacher. The breathing techniques Peter teaches in this book are first-class for people who may suffer from a weakness in their breathing, typically caused by being physically blocked through poor deportment. These techniques will unlock, repair, and regulate the whole respiratory function. I suffer from osteoarthritis and myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), an incurable chronic disease, and Peter’s teachings have enabled me to function far more positively and productively than otherwise would have been possible.In summary, I recommend this book for any age or state of health, as one that provides gentle and easy movements, very clearly explained, to maintain good health and a sense of well-being; to aid healing or to restore good health after illness; to improve living where full physical restoration may not be possible; or merely to work toward a long and healthy life.”

• Foreword by Mary Davies Turner, Ph.D.PrefaceIntroductionStep 1—Illumination of YangshengStep 2—Zhang Luanli: The Long PrincipleStep 3—Shen Huxi: Profound BreathingStep 4—Secrets of the Longevity IconsStep 5—Yin and Yang Rhythms of LifeStep 6—Jing Zuo: How to Sit QuietlyStep 7—Stirring the Shen: The Hidden Taoist SecretStep 8—Eight Daoyin Longevity ExercisesAsk Sifu—Q & A on Life and LongevityFinal Comment of Ancestor Lu DongbinNotesGlossaryBibliographyIllustration CreditsAcknowledgementsAbout the AuthorIndex

Sifu Peter Newton is a registered senior instructor and honorary vice president of the Tai Chi Union for Great Britain. An expert in his field, he specializes in medical tai chi, applying tai chi and qigong as a remedial therapy to alleviate ailments. With more than forty years of experience and training directly with Chinese masters, Peter lives in Llandudno, Wales.

“As a retired doctor of psychotherapy I am particularly interested in the psychological and physical impact this book will offer, ensuring good health and longevity. In addition to psychology, much of my professional career has been as a singer and singing teacher. The breathing techniques Peter teaches in this book are first-class for people who may suffer from a weakness in their breathing, typically caused by being physically blocked through poor deportment. These techniques will unlock, repair, and regulate the whole respiratory function. I suffer from osteoarthritis and myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), an incurable chronic disease, and Peter’s teachings have enabled me to function far more positively and productively than otherwise would have been possible.In summary, I recommend this book for any age or state of health, as one that provides gentle and easy movements, very clearly explained, to maintain good health and a sense of well-being; to aid healing or to restore good health after illness; to improve living where full physical restoration may not be possible; or merely to work toward a long and healthy life.”

• Foreword by Mary Davies Turner, Ph.D.PrefaceIntroductionStep 1—Illumination of YangshengStep 2—Zhang Luanli: The Long PrincipleStep 3—Shen Huxi: Profound BreathingStep 4—Secrets of the Longevity IconsStep 5—Yin and Yang Rhythms of LifeStep 6—Jing Zuo: How to Sit QuietlyStep 7—Stirring the Shen: The Hidden Taoist SecretStep 8—Eight Daoyin Longevity ExercisesAsk Sifu—Q & A on Life and LongevityFinal Comment of Ancestor Lu DongbinNotesGlossaryBibliographyIllustration CreditsAcknowledgementsAbout the AuthorIndex

Sifu Peter Newton is a registered senior instructor and honorary vice president of the Tai Chi Union for Great Britain. An expert in his field, he specializes in medical tai chi, applying tai chi and qigong as a remedial therapy to alleviate ailments. With more than forty years of experience and training directly with Chinese masters, Peter lives in Llandudno, Wales.

“As a retired doctor of psychotherapy I am particularly interested in the psychological and physical impact this book will offer, ensuring good health and longevity. In addition to psychology, much of my professional career has been as a singer and singing teacher. The breathing techniques Peter teaches in this book are first-class for people who may suffer from a weakness in their breathing, typically caused by being physically blocked through poor deportment. These techniques will unlock, repair, and regulate the whole respiratory function. I suffer from osteoarthritis and myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), an incurable chronic disease, and Peter’s teachings have enabled me to function far more positively and productively than otherwise would have been possible.In summary, I recommend this book for any age or state of health, as one that provides gentle and easy movements, very clearly explained, to maintain good health and a sense of well-being; to aid healing or to restore good health after illness; to improve living where full physical restoration may not be possible; or merely to work toward a long and healthy life.”

• Foreword by Mary Davies Turner, Ph.D.PrefaceIntroductionStep 1—Illumination of YangshengStep 2—Zhang Luanli: The Long PrincipleStep 3—Shen Huxi: Profound BreathingStep 4—Secrets of the Longevity IconsStep 5—Yin and Yang Rhythms of LifeStep 6—Jing Zuo: How to Sit QuietlyStep 7—Stirring the Shen: The Hidden Taoist SecretStep 8—Eight Daoyin Longevity ExercisesAsk Sifu—Q & A on Life and LongevityFinal Comment of Ancestor Lu DongbinNotesGlossaryBibliographyIllustration CreditsAcknowledgementsAbout the AuthorIndex