qigong
Sign in to saveQigong () is a system of coordinated body-posture and movement, breathing, and meditation said to be useful for the purposes of health, spirituality, and martial arts training. With roots in Chinese medicine, philosophy, and martial arts, qigong is traditionally viewed by the Chinese and throughout Asia as a practice to cultivate and balance the mystical life-force qi.
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35 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History and origins
- Roots and traditions
- From 1949 to 1999: the qigong boom
- Control and crackdown
- Overview
- Practices
- Forms
- Techniques
- Traditional and classical theory
- Chinese medicine and qigong
- Daoist Qigong
- Buddhism
- Confucianism
- Contemporary qigong
- Contemporary Chinese medical qigong
- Integrative, complementary, and alternative medicine
- Practitioners, uses and cautions
- Recreation and popular use
- Meditation and self-cultivation
- Martial arts applications
- Tai chi and qigong
- Therapeutic use
- Safety and cost
- Clinical research
- Overview
- Conventional medicine
- Systematic reviews
- Mental health
- China
- Challenges
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
Qigong () is a system of coordinated body-posture and movement, breathing, and meditation said to be useful for the purposes of health, spirituality, and martial arts training. With roots in Chinese medicine, philosophy, and martial arts, qigong is traditionally viewed by the Chinese and throughout Asia as a practice to cultivate and balance the mystical life-force qi.
Qigong practice typically involves moving meditation, coordinating slow-flowing movement, deep rhythmic breathing, and a calm meditative state of mind. People practice qigong throughout China and worldwide for recreation, exercise, relaxation, preventive medicine, self-healing, alternative medicine, meditation, self-cultivation, and training for martial arts.