LIVE LONGER, HEALTHIER, HAPPIER! New! Interactive Health and Fitness DVD features powerful, innovative Qigong exercises designed to boost your health, reduce stress and increase your fitness!

COMPASSIONATE WARRIORS, DONALD and CHERYL LYNNE RUBBO, announce the upcoming release of their DVD, Long Life Exercises, Qigong for Health and Longevity." RELEASE DATE: SEPTEMBER 1st, 2004.

(PRWEB) August 9, 2004 -- This beautifully produced interactive DVD features the ancient Chinese system of Qigong, and these powerful, effective, easy-to-follow exercises combine guided intention, movement, meditation and visualization to enhance the mind/body/spirit connection and stimulate your own self-healing qualities.

Donald Rubbo places special emphasis on the proper frame of mind and structural alignment so that you can cultivate the greatest benefits from these exercises.

DESIGNED FOR PEOPLE OF ALL AGES AND FITNESS LEVELS.
The Long Life Exercises are perfect as a stand-alone daily routine, or you can combine them with your regular daily practice of Qigong, yoga or any other exercise program.

Learn time-tested, effective techniques and exercises to stretch, tone, lengthen, circulate and relax::
-Increase flow of energy and blood throughout your entire body
-Calm your mind and focus your intention
-Massage and strengthen your internal organs
-Tonify and build muscles and loosen stiff joints
-Increase your energy and restore your spirit
-Strengthen your immune system
-Balance and center your internal system

This is like a TUNE UP for your WHOLE BODY, every day!

WHO WILL BENEFIT FROM THESE EXERCISES:
-Children, Adults and Elderly
-Yoga & Pilates practitioners
-Martial artists
-Athletes
-Health Care Practitioners
-Dancers and Somatics Trainers

The Rubbos wisdom and compassion come through so clearly on this video. My martial arts practice has really improved since I started doing these exercises!." Robert B.

Shot at the San Francisco Art Institute and in spectacular outdoor settings in Marin County, California, the DVD is presented in three sections:

PART ONE: Detailed explanation of the posture and practice for the WuJi , the foundation for many forms of Qigong. This posture calms the mind, enlivens the spirit and moves the Chi.

PART TWO: Instruction on each of the 23 Long Life Exercises, with modifications for physical and medical limitations.

PART THREE: Full routine practice session with Donald Rubbo.

By developing and fostering a deep understanding that we are not separate from nature, you are bringing a greater awareness of the sacredness of your inner and outer environment, helping to create inner peace for yourself and generating outer peace in the world," says Cheryl Lynne Rubbo.

PRACTICING these PROFOUND EXERCISES for 30 MINUTES a DAY will help you to:
-Maintain your good health
-Recover faster from illnesses and injuries
-Access the natural healing abilities of your mind and body

"When I started using the Long Life video, I realized I'd finally found an exercise program that I could use despite the limitations of lupus. My energy level and balance have improved steadily. I'm able to use the exercises in a meditative way, which helps me manage the stress of my illness and the side effects of steroid medication." Eileen D.

Original flute and guitar music by Greg Patterson. Produced by Paul D. Pickens II Research Foundation. Total running time: 80 minutes.

VHS format available now for the Long Life Exercises, Qigong for Health and Longevity."

For more information, contact:
Cheryl Lynne Rubbo
Executive Director
Paul D. Pickens II Research Foundation - Center for the Healing Arts
A 501 (C) (3) nonprofit healing arts organization
San Anselmo, CA - Telephone: 415.456.9095 Email: info@CultivateChi.com
Website: www.CultivateChi.com

Qigong is a four-thousand-year old health system, one of the four main pillars of Traditional Chinese Medicine along with acupuncture, herbs and massage. Qigong is a scientifically-based practice which holds that the human body, mind, emotions and intuition form a complex, dynamic energy field. This human energy field is governed by pattern and order. In disease or injury the energy is characterized by imbalance and disorder, in good health the field is balanced. The exercises on this DVD will bring balance and order back into your life.

Sales of the Long Life Exercises, Qigong for Health and Longevity" DVD support the research, education and preservation of ancient healing arts at Paul D. Pickens II Research Foundation Center for the Healing Arts. This revenue provides a steady flow of funds for our vital health service programs: free weekly health classes, one-on-one healing sessions, and scholarships and flexible work-exchanges for attendance at ongoing classes, workshops and retreats.

NEW RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS HEALTH BENEFITS
Exciting, groundbreaking research with state-of-the-art methods in the cognitive and brain sciences are being used by neuroscientists on highly experienced meditation practitioners. Early findings are showing significant and highly positive changes in brain function from prolonged meditation practice. For anyone who has an ongoing daily meditation practice, this research confirms that the time spent meditating has great benefits at the brain level, producing lasting changes: more positive emotions and fewer upsets, increased immune function, and highly enhanced sensitivity. Studies also show that people who meditate can quickly achieve such health benefits as slower heart rate, lower blood pressure, reduced oxygen consumption and lower lactic acid levels.

HEALING the WORLD, ONE PERSON at a TIME.

DONALD and CHERYL LYNNE RUBBO were among the first in the country to develop Qigong health programs for hospitals, for Marin General Hospital.
-The Rubbos taught Qigong seminars to doctors and nurses at the San Francisco V.A. Medical Center, CA, and at Kaiser Hospital in Novato, CA
-Donald Rubbo designed and directs in-depth, challenging Teacher Training programs, based on ancient Chinese healing arts, so that others can spread these health benefits to the public worldwide.
-The Rubbos founded and ran Five Tigers Martial Arts Summer Day Camp, for kids 6 to 15, and made learning this disciplined martial art fun for the kids, designing a program that taught development of self, conflict resolution, self-defense techniques and health exercises.
-The Rubbos have been studying martial and internal arts for over 30 years, and bring warmth, humor and compassion to their work. Donald and Cheryl Lynne Rubbo have embraced and embodied the principles of martial arts: humility, respect, righteousness, trust and loyalty. They also live their lives, without wavering, by the precepts of Buddhism: generosity, morality, patience, diligence, concentration and wisdom.