Article: Blow-hard solution from the 'Ministry of Enlightenment'

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 ...

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