Yiquan - Chinese art for health and internal strength

Yiquan is an internal Chinese art for healing and strengthening the body-mind. Even though the style was born as a martial art, its founder Wang Xiangzhai placed a special emphasis on health aspects from the beginning and later in life concentrated mainly on developing the art as a health-enhancing exercise.

In Yiquan, body and mind are seen as constituting a whole where these two aspects - substantial and insubstantial - are in a state of constant interaction and interdependence. The state of the mind affects the state of the body and vice versa.

Zhang Changwang has 50 years of experience in Chinese martial arts, including 30 years of experience in Yiquan. In this book, he introduces the health side of Yiquan in detail and also discusses the art and the way it approaches training the entirety of the human being from a philosophical viewpoint.