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Article: Blow-hard solution from the 'Ministry of Enlightenment'
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- Sunday Star-Times
- Article date:
- May 18, 2003
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TAKE A deep breath before you read this--Work and Income is
teaching sickness beneficiaries yogic breathing to help them get a
job. Doctors are alarmed: one described the alternative medical
treatment workshops as "bullshit".
Auckland case worker Tribhu Dod arranged the first workshop and
provided beneficiaries with Indian newspaper articles about the
physical and emotional benefits of yogic breathing in treating
ailments such as depression.
Yogic breathing is a religious meditation technique involving
rapid breathing, and its proponents believe it is more effective than
the drugs of western medicine.
Act deputy leader Ken Shirley said he had spoken to beneficiaries
who had been offered ...