Article: Invisible therapy; Proponents of qigong, sometimes described as acupuncture without needles, say the Chinese technique has the power to heal. Chunyi Lin has taught the technique to thousands in Minnesota and is one of several practitioners discussing qigong at a conference this weekend.(VARIETY)

Outside, it's raining buckets, but 63 people pack the large circular room at Anoka Ramsey Community College for their second Monday night class in qigong (chee-GUNG), an ancient Chinese healing art.

Most students are middle-aged and older, but there's a smattering of twenty-somethings.

Before them stands Chunyi Lin, an unassuming Chinese man, so slight that you wonder how he keeps from slipping through his buttoned-down shirt collar and too-big tie. Despite the crowd and whispers of anticipation, a sense of calm pervades the room.

"He really is a Chinese shaman, a Chinese medicine man," said Patrick Dougherty, a St. Paul psychotherapist and ...

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