A small eBooklet containing exercises I have taught over the past twenty years in my clinic and classes. Sources are traditional, adjusted to suit the individual. They included the Eight Sectioned Brocade, Upon Awakening (simple morning stretches), Aggrievement Exercises, and exercises to promote sound sleep. Diagrams and simple instructions help the reader to regulate the body’s processes, qi and blood, quieten the breath and mind. Also the genius of gentle self-rubbing is explained, as a means to promote health.

About the author

Richard Bertschinger is a translator from the classical Chinese of the The Golden Needle, (Churchill Livingstone 1991) also The Secret of Everlasting Life, (Element 1994), early alchemical and medical texts. He taught ten years at Yeovil College - Tai-chi, massage and relaxation. He has been in acupuncture practice twenty-five years with Jane Robinson and Lesley Jenkins in Yeovil. He studied Tai-chi, meditation and translation with Mr Gia-fu Feng, American-Chinese Taoist teacher until his death in 1986, also learning his acupuncture from Jack Worsley at Leamington Spa, and working as a primary school teacher in the UK and in Gestalt Therapy in the USA. A first degree in philosophy, he also worked ten years at Musgrove Park Hospital Taunton, in the NHS Pain Clinic promoting Traditional Acupuncture.