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Practitioners of T'ai Chi, led by Ken Ryan, center, participate in World T’ai Chi and Qigong Day activities Saturday morning on the Bowdoin College Quad. Starting at 10 a.m. in New Zealand and progressing from time zone to time zone around the globe, T’ai Chi proponents took part in public demonstrations of the martial arts-based exercise routine. About 100 people took part in Brunswick. “World T’ai Chi and Qigong Day started in 1998 in Kansas City as a local, grassroots effort to bring attention to rapidly growing evidence supporting the practice of T’ai Chi and Qigong as a means of promoting health and healing,” according to a release from local organizers. “In 1999 it went global, spreading to 70 nations on six continents. The primary goal of this global effort is twofold: to generate greater community awareness that T’ai Chi and Qigong are a user-friendly means of preventative health care that all ages can practice, and to dramatically connect people worldwide in a unified effort to promote health and celebrate life.” (Darren Fishell / The Times Record)
Practitioners of T’ai Chi, led by Ken Ryan, center, participate in World T’ai Chi and Qigong Day activities Saturday morning on the Bowdoin College Quad. Starting at 10 a.m. in New Zealand and progressing from time zone to time zone around the globe, T’ai Chi proponents took part in public demonstrations of the martial arts-based exercise routine. About 100 people took part in Brunswick. “World T’ai Chi and Qigong Day started in 1998 in Kansas City as a local, grassroots effort to bring attention to rapidly growing evidence supporting the practice of T’ai Chi and Qigong as a means of promoting health and healing,” according to a release from local organizers. “In 1999 it went global, spreading to 70 nations on six continents. The primary goal of this global effort is twofold: to generate greater community awareness that T’ai Chi and Qigong are a user-friendly means of preventative health care that all ages can practice, and to dramatically connect people worldwide in a unified effort to promote health and celebrate life.” (Darren Fishell / The Times Record)






(Darren Fishell / The Times Record)
(Darren Fishell / The Times Record)
(Donald Jamison / The Times Record)
(Donald Jamison / The Times Record)

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