I purchased this book because it had 5 star reviews and I thought it might be worth adding to my collection of books on tai chi. I was sadly disappointed. This is not really a book about tai chi chuan; at least not as it is generally understood, particularly in China. Rather it contains the author's musing about forms of slow meditative movement loosely based on certain tai chi chuan principles. I say "musings" because on the whole what the author has to say is vague and not very coherent.Perhaps the character of the book can best be described as self-consciously "new age". The only reason I can think of for buying it, is as an illustration of one of the directions in which tai chi has developed in the west. If it were the only book one were to read on the subject, what little you would learn from it would be highly misleading.