Cosmic Detox: A Taoist Approach to Internal Cleansing

Cosmic Detox: A Taoist Approach to Internal Cleansing, by Mantak Chia and William U. Wei. Long known by Taoist masters, the body has an innate ability to heal itself, an ability that is hampered by toxins in the food we ingest and energy blockages that arise from illnesses and obstacles in our lives. These blockages transform the body’s energy rivers into a polluted and stagnant swamp--the root of degenerative disease as well as premature aging.

Revealing the detoxification and rejuvenation practices of the Taoist sages, Master Mantak Chia and William U. Wei show how to reactivate your body’s self-healing abilities by gradually and safely expelling accumulated toxins through fasting, mono diets, and cleansing the nine openings of the body. Using the practices of chi self-massage and healing sounds along with natural recipes for herbal tonics and cleansing flushes for each of the openings and their related organs, the authors explain how to balance and purify the body’s internal environment through colonic cleanses, acid and alkaline foods, urine therapy, dry skin brushing, ear candling, and energized water. Concluding with a 14-day total-body cleansing program, Cosmic Detox offers tools to keep the energy rivers clean and flowing, preparing the body for higher-level Taoist practices as well as enabling healing of our emotional and spiritual bodies.

Mantak Chia, world-famous Inner Alchemy and Qi Gong master, founded the Universal Healing Tao System in 1979. He has taught and certified tens of thousands of students and instructors from all over the world. The director of the Tao Garden Health Spa and Resort in northern Thailand, he is the author of 40 books, including Chi Self-Massage and Taoist Cosmic Healing. William U. Wei is a senior instructor of the Universal Healing Tao who began his studies with Master Chia in the early 1980s and has taught with him in more than 30 countries. The coauthor of Living in the Tao and Sexual Reflexology, he lives in Milwaukie, Oregon. Click here for more information or to order.

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The Tao of Natural Breathing

The Tao of Natural Breathing: For Health, Well-Being, and Inner Growth, by Dennis Lewis. Dennis Lewis draws on his many years of study in the Gurdjieff work, Advaita Vedanta, and Taoism to show how natural, whole-body breathing can improve health, increase energy, and support the quest for inner growth. Along with breathing practices designed to open the three primal energy centers, the book defines natural breathing; provides a clear, illustrated description of the physiology of breathing; and offers suggestions on how to use spacious breathing both in times of stress and in everyday life. In addition to its success in the United States, The Tao of Natural Breathing has gained enormous interest from publishers around the world. Foreign language rights have already been sold for the following languages: German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Bulgarian, Portuguese, Croation, Russian, Hindi, and a special English language edition in India.

Vegetable Roots Discourse: Wisdom from Ming China on Life and Living

Vegetable Roots Discourse: Wisdom from Ming China on Life and Living, by Robert Aitken and Daniel W.Y. Kwok. Written 400 years ago, by a scholar in the Ming Dynasty, The Caigentan or Vegetable Roots has been a fundamental literary guide for hundreds of years, outlining Asian philosophy. This edition, translated by Robert Aitken and Daniel W.Y. Kwok, contains 360 observations of life: its exaggerations, absurdities, grotesqueries, and falsities. Terse, humorous, witty, and timely, these Taoist, Buddhist, and Confucianist epigrams provide fundamental principles of life. Though often strict, puritan, and tough to live by, they provide the foundation for the art of living. Pocket-sized and agreeing seamlessly with the impulses of all ages, this discourse is read as a set of philosophical notions on personal development for all types.