page_title: Qigong
hierarchical_section_title: Qigong
caption_attribution_description: English: World Tai Chi &amp; Qigong Day archive - New York City, Manhattan event http://worldtaichiday.org/WTCQDPHOTO2005.htmlFrançais&#160;: Archives du World Tai Chi &amp; Qigong Day - Evénement à New York, Manhattan
context_page_description: Qigong, qi gong, chi kung, or chi gung is a centuries-old system of coordinated body-posture and movement, breathing, and meditation used 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 qi, translated as "life energy".
  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.
  Clinical research on qigong for its potential benefit in treating disease has been inconclusive. There is no evidence that qigong has any therapeutic effect.
context_section_description: Qigong (/ˈtʃiːˈɡɒŋ/), qi gong, chi kung, or chi gung (simplified Chinese: 气功; traditional Chinese: 氣功; pinyin: qìgōng; Wade–Giles: ch‘i kung; lit.: 'life-energy cultivation') is a centuries-old system of coordinated body-posture and movement, breathing, and meditation used 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 qi (pronounced approximately as "chi"), translated as "life energy".
  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.
  Clinical research on qigong for its potential benefit in treating disease has been inconclusive. There is no evidence that qigong has any therapeutic effect.
caption: Qigong practitioners at World Tai Chi and Qigong Day event in Manhattan.
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