Title: Poorly organized and illustrated.
Product review: The first thing that struck me about this book was the way it is organized. It attempts to guide the reader through a full year of qigong practice, starting in spring. While this idea is, in itself, not a bad one, the increased intensity of the exercises inhibits the ability to begin practice at any other time. In other words, if your bought this book in January, as I did, you'd be starting at "month 11," which is almost at the end of the book and assumes knowledge of the previous 10 months. So, unless you begin practice in March of April, the book is nearly useless until then.Even if the qigong exercises in this book were accurate and beneficial, you'd never know it. The sparse illustrations only show one of the three to eight steps in each exercise and the written descriptions of each step is often unclear. An introduction to qigong should be more accessible to the beginner.
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