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Article: Cultivating Qi: more and more Westerners are discovering Qigong, an ancient amalgam of dance and meditation with a range of physical benefits. (includes related article on alternative medicine)
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- Newsweek
- Article date:
- July 28, 1997
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It's a noisy, fume-choked July afternoon in midtown Manhattan. Tempers are flaring in the crushing traffic and stifling heat of West 34th Street. But inside the Source of Life Center, half a block from the Empire State Building, Terry Costiga and seven other refugees are enjoying the physiological equivalent of a cool ocean breeze. They're practicing Qigong (pronounced chee-GONG). the ancient Chinese healing art that combines gentle movements with deep breathing, self-massage and meditation. At the instructor's gentle urging, the students raise their hands above their heads, pause and then push them down,7n past their stomachs while breathing deeply and rhythmically. ...
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