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The practice of qigong spread from an institutional setting to a popular movement led by charismatic promoters. Guo Lin (郭林), a Beijing artist who claimed to have cured herself of uterine cancer in the 1960s, was one of the first qigong masters to teach qigong openly to the general public outside an institutional setting. [26]
Qigong is commonly classified into two foundational categories: 1) dynamic or active qigong (dong gong), with slow flowing movement; and 2) meditative or passive qigong (jing gong), with still positions and inner movement of the breath.
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The Baduanjin qigong (八段錦) is one of the most common forms of Chinese qigong used as exercise. [1] Variously translated as Eight Pieces of Brocade, Eight-Section Brocade, Eight Silken Movements or Eight Silk Weaving, the name of the form generally refers to how the eight individual movements of the form characterize and impart a silken quality (like that of a piece of brocade) to the ...
Universal Document Converter is a virtual printer and PDF creator for Microsoft Windows developed by fCoder Group. It can create PDF documents (as raster images or searchable text) and files in graphic formats JPEG, TIFF, PNG, GIF, PCX, DCX and BMP. [3] It can create graphic or PDF files from any document that can be printed.
Unarmed silambam (kai silambam) is based on animal movements such as the snake, eagle, tiger and elephant. Other Martial Arts of Tamil Nadu are Varma Kalai , Adi Thadi, Malyutham , [ 73 ] Valariveechu , Vaalveechu, Gusthi (Boxing form of Tamil Nadu, not to be confused with North Indian Kushti which is a Wrestling art).
Tai chi is an ancient Chinese martial art.Initially developed for combat and self-defense, [1] for most practitioners it has evolved into a sport and form of exercise.As an exercise, tai chi is performed as gentle, low-impact movement in which practitioners perform a series of deliberate, flowing motions while focusing on deep, slow breaths.
Pandoc is a free-software document converter, widely used as a writing tool (especially by scholars) [2] and as a basis for publishing workflows. [3] It was created by John MacFarlane , a philosophy professor at the University of California, Berkeley .