GUIYANG — With sunlight glinting on the leaves of trees and the running water in a brook at the world heritage site of Mount Fanjingshan, 62-year-old Yves Perrin sat beside the water wearing tai chi clothes, practicing traditional qigong breathing exercises. Between April 7 and 19, a group of 50 French martial arts enthusiasts visited Guizhou province to practice tai …
Celebrities like David Beckham, Manisha Koirala and Nargis Fakhri have embraced a 5,000-year-old Chinese practise for preserving mental and physical health – it’s called Qigong. By bringing our bodies back into harmony with Nature, Qigong practises activate the body’s internal self-healing mechanism,” says Sifu Shiv. It is a coordinated system of body posture and movement, breathing,and meditation used for health, …