Tai Chi Shan - La Montagna dell'Equilibrio

“A journey into the awareness of going to the mountains, into internal and external balance, into the ability to remain in the "Here and Now" while our body proceeds in union with nature. Walking, climbing... the form doesn't matter and doesn't change the content. Tai Chi Shan, the Mountain of Balance, is just that. Not a simple book, but a distillation to be savored page after page, where the experience and passion of a notable and original mountaineer find a common thread in the principles of Tai Chi and Qi Gong, to recover that ancestral and profound meaning which, often unconsciously, we search in the mountains. With great competence and fluidity, seasoned with episodes of real life and his very pleasant irony, Popi guides us in the knowledge of this magnificent discipline: its principles, its techniques and the exercises that we can use in our activity as climbers, hikers or mountain practitioners. Powerful tools and countless food for thought, which flow like torrents throughout the reading, while the wonderful photos collected over an entire lifetime catapult us beyond the pages of this book. For those who love the mountains and the activities that characterize them, this is a book to read and to have, to learn to go beyond, inside and outside of ourselves." "Tai Chi Shan, however, is not a book of "recipes", but rather a list of ingredients to use - and dare - as desired to cook our personal way of ascending. Tai Chi and Qi Gong work on us in circular manner, acting not only on the physical level but also on the medical and spiritual level without interruption. Over time they become part of the life of those who practice them, influencing their thoughts and behaviors, and therefore also the way of relating to all their other spheres of interest , including the mountains.”