The political leadership of China is not the only group alarmed by the spread of Falun Gong, a term used to describe both a set of slow, graceful exercises and the banned Chinese spiritual ...

The sitting pose, called the "Way of Strengthening Supernormal Power," is similar to qigong meditation exercises that have been shown to lower blood pressure. The standing poses mainly stretch the ...

Qigong is appearing on exercise class schedules in New York and ... Qigong, despite its outward similarity to sitting or standing meditation, is more intense and exhausting for body and mind.

In the US, some of the most popular mind-body exercises are yoga, Pilates, qigong and tai chi ... can be performed both standing up or sitting down, and there are thousands of different postures ...

In these stances, you adopt a semi-sitting position with slightly ... a person is engaging in various forms of exercise or meditation related to Qi Gong, but their focus is on Christ and their ...