Is everyone here familiar with "World Tai Chi & Qigong Day" ?

World Tai Chi & Qigong Day is a global event held in 60 nations, and
all 50 US States, the last Saturday of April each year.  Its purpose is
both to educate the world of the profound health benefits of Tai Chi &
Qigong, as well as provide a powerful example of global cooperation for
the purpose of health & healing.

This unprecedented worldwide event has been officially recognized by
the United Nations World Health Organization, governors of 16 US
states, and mayors and senates worldwide.  It has been covered by The
New York Times, Reader's Digest, Parade Magazine, CNN, FOX News, The
South China Morning Post, Russia's Omsk Weekly News, and by hundreds of
media worldwide.

You can learn more about it at: http://www.worldtaichiday.org

It offers hundreds of pages of free content educational information, as
wells as resources for individuals, schools, and teachers to help
educate their communities and the world about the emerging medical
research on Tai Chi & Qigong.  www.worldtaichiday.org is the internet's
#1 site for "Tai Chi medical research."

The event also has a mailing list so that you can be alerted as new
medical research and event information is released once a week.

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William wrote:

> Is everyone here familiar with "World Tai Chi & Qigong Day" ?

No, not everyone. If I were interested, I'd go read the Tai Chi
newsgroups, if any exist. If I were interested in Tai Chi, I would
probably subscribe to magazines dealing with Tai Chi issues, regularly
visit web sites with Tai Chi content, be a member of some club for Tai
Chi practitioners or something. Through all these means I'd probably get
to know about the "World Tai Chi & Qigong Day", but since I'm not
interested, I have, until this very day, managed to avoid cluttering my
brain with this information, which is useless to me.

> World Tai Chi & Qigong Day is a global event held in 60 nations, and
> all 50 US States, the last Saturday of April each year.  Its purpose is
> both to educate the world of the profound health benefits of Tai Chi &
> Qigong, as well as provide a powerful example of global cooperation for
> the purpose of health & healing.
>
> This unprecedented worldwide event has been officially recognized by
> the United Nations World Health Organization, governors of 16 US
> states, and mayors and senates worldwide.  It has been covered by The
> New York Times, Reader's Digest, Parade Magazine, CNN, FOX News, The
> South China Morning Post, Russia's Omsk Weekly News, and by hundreds of
> media worldwide.
>
> You can learn more about it at: http://www.worldtaichiday.org
>
> It offers hundreds of pages of free content educational information, as
> wells as resources for individuals, schools, and teachers to help
> educate their communities and the world about the emerging medical
> research on Tai Chi & Qigong.  www.worldtaichiday.org is the internet's
> #1 site for "Tai Chi medical research."
>
> The event also has a mailing list so that you can be alerted as new
> medical research and event information is released once a week.

Where did you get the idea to advertise this on alt.yoga instead of some
Tai Chi-related forum, newspaper, website or organization? I'm really
curious, because we have recently had a sudden influx of non-yoga
advertisors, political pamphletteers, religious zealots promoting their
cult and so on, to the point of making our normal discussions about yoga
(which is the raison d'etre of this newsgroup) almost impossible.

I can only surmise that, somewhere, there is a source of erroneous
information, leading spammers et al to believe that the newsgroup
alt.yoga is here for some other purpose than discussing yoga.

That is a grave error, since there is no goodwill to get from disturbing
the normal discussions on the newsgroups. Spamming here will only damage
the spammers cause, his sales-figures or whatever.

Now, to be a bit more specific: Tai Chi is not yoga. While it may be
true that many yogis also are interested in Tai Chi, Buddhism, politics,
environmental issues, New Age, world poverty, magic, UFOs, golf, rock
music and so on, we prefer to discuss these things in other fora than
this. I hope you understand why this is so.

Merry Christmas

S.

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I've just finished one of Bill Douglas's videos actually.  It's cool.  I
highly recommend it.

I think Chi-Kung is the only thing that's missing from Hatha Yoga.  I do a
few minutes of the 'bounce and shake excercise' to initiate my hatha yoga
sessions.

It gets the energy flowing.

I thought this particular excercise was "good" and the best single excercise
anyone can do for their health.  So I brought one of Bills videos to find
out a bit more about QiGong and learn a bit of Tai Chi.  And I have to say,
I was really impressed.

To stay healthy I follow Richard Hittleman's three day plan of practice
routine- thing.  And now I slip a day of Tai Chi into the equation.  It's
great stuff.  It complements yoga.  It also creates a bit of variety.  I'm
going to be sure to check out the website.  Thanks.  Good Work!




"William" <Wtcqd2000@aol.com> wrote in message
news:1135277411.955390.193760@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com..
> Is everyone here familiar with "World Tai Chi & Qigong Day" ?
>
> World Tai Chi & Qigong Day is a global event held in 60 nations, and
> all 50 US States, the last Saturday of April each year.  Its purpose is
> both to educate the world of the profound health benefits of Tai Chi &
> Qigong, as well as provide a powerful example of global cooperation for
> the purpose of health & healing.
>
> This unprecedented worldwide event has been officially recognized by
> the United Nations World Health Organization, governors of 16 US
> states, and mayors and senates worldwide.  It has been covered by The
> New York Times, Reader's Digest, Parade Magazine, CNN, FOX News, The
> South China Morning Post, Russia's Omsk Weekly News, and by hundreds of
> media worldwide.
>
> You can learn more about it at: http://www.worldtaichiday.org
>
> It offers hundreds of pages of free content educational information, as
> wells as resources for individuals, schools, and teachers to help
> educate their communities and the world about the emerging medical
> research on Tai Chi & Qigong.  www.worldtaichiday.org is the internet's
> #1 site for "Tai Chi medical research."
>
> The event also has a mailing list so that you can be alerted as new
> medical research and event information is released once a week.
>

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Round about way to say you think this post is off-topic spam :-)
Perhaps someone will accuse you of being a "self-appointed" alt.yoga
policeman. I could use a little asssist :-)  Thanks!

BTW, chi chung is very closely related to pranayama and kundilini; the
study of which is basically a chinese flavor of yoga.

o
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omjaroo wrote:

> Round about way to say you think this post is off-topic spam :-)
> Perhaps someone will accuse you of being a "self-appointed" alt.yoga
> policeman. I could use a little asssist :-)  Thanks!
>
> BTW, chi chung is very closely related to pranayama and kundilini; the
> study of which is basically a chinese flavor of yoga.
>
> o
> ^

You know, ordinarily I'd have no objection to the post, and I'm sure it
is of interest to many here, but the amount of spamming cross-posts we
have had here recently makes me more irritable, I guess. I wish the
spammers would read the FAQ, wherein it is written that spammers should
take care not to flood the group, but be satisfied with soliciting at
most three times a month, or preferably only twice a month, if I
remember cxorrectly.

The Rama dude is an extreme case, posting the same stuff over and over
again, almost daily, thus making Rama's thoughts extremely impopular.
I've heard some theorizing that this may be his real intent.

S.

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>I've heard some theorizing that this may be his real intent.

Then that would raise to the level of spamming "troll" :-)

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On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 10:50:12 -0800, William <Wtcqd2000@aol.com> wrote:

> Is everyone here familiar with "World Tai Chi & Qigong Day" ?
>
Yes, probably; it doesn't seem to be a yoga group anymore.

--Don
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/yogabare

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My understanding is that chinese arts and healings are a product of ancient
yogis anyway.  Yogis and sidhi's from India used to go for walks, and some
of them used to get lost.

Some of them found themselves in China and started teaching and spreading
ancient knowledge around.

I read that somewhere in a book.  Anyone want to elaberate on that or tell
me I'm wrong?


"omjaroo" <omjaroo@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Round about way to say you think this post is off-topic spam :-)
> Perhaps someone will accuse you of being a "self-appointed" alt.yoga
> policeman. I could use a little asssist :-)  Thanks!
>
> BTW, chi chung is very closely related to pranayama and kundilini; the
> study of which is basically a chinese flavor of yoga.
>
> o
> ^
>

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