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2022-01-18T15:26:00.065Z


THE FIGARO SELECTION - Detox cures have become obsolete. Today, we recharge our batteries in a playful way. From hip-hop to rock climbing, we've tested the new practices that bring back the punch.


Qigong near Montparnasse

Energy from heaven, earth and, let's be crazy, the universe. Does that remind you of something? In a fairly remote urban corner of the 14th arrondissement hides the Institut du quimétao. One practices there in particular the qi gong (to include/understand “accomplishment or control of the breath”). A discipline that has its source in Taoism. In this very simple place in the basement, master Jian Liujun manages to create a most peaceful atmosphere. It must be said that this character combines specialties: a graduate of the University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Guangzhou (southern China), cardiologist in Western medicine and founder of the Quimetao Institute. To the liking of soft music, through a series of postures, static and dynamic, he invites us to feel, first through our hands, the breath of the elements that surround us.Then he teaches us to use this universal energy as an extension of our being, in all circumstances. The virtues (or

dao

) engendered by practice…

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Source: lefigaro

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