"One World . . . One Breath" . . . A Massive Global Public Health & Healing Event

 Two of the world’s most widely read publications, Parade Magazine and USA 

Weekend, began a string of media references in the last few months, to 

a truly unusual coming event.

An unprecedented global health & healing event which is about to expand across 

our planet, educating on natural health solutions, provides a vision of a 

global coming together for personal and global healing, and an urge for 

people to open hearts and minds to wisdom from all corners of humanity for 

the betterment of all.

At 10 am, on the morning of Saturday, April 29th, 2006 (celebrated always on 

the last Saturday of April each year), a mass of people who’ve experienced the 

health & healing benefits of Tai Chi & Qigong (Chi Kung), will hold exhibitions 

and teach-ins on these ancient health tools in the earliest time zones of New 

Zealand. As the planet turns, tens of thousands across hundreds of events in 

sixty nations will join in as 10 am rolls across the planet time zone by 

time zone.

A Harvard, Yale, MIT study just revealed that “meditation increases brain size”

 especially in creative centers of the mind. As the moving meditations of tai 

chi & qigong expand throughout cities worldwide in public places, they expose 

tens of thousands to the gentle flowing motions of moving meditation, and with 

the help of global media, this moment of mind expansion is carried into millions 

of homes. What effect does this blanketing of the world for one day in images of 

unity, healing, and open heartedness, have on the planet, on humanity? Perhaps 

it expands the global brain size!

And although research hasn’t emerged on this, yet, perhaps it enlarges the planet’s 

heart size. World Tai Chi & Qigong Day has received moving testimonials from such 

diverse senders as an American Vietnam War Veteran, to a young woman recovering 

from burns caused by a bombing run in the latest war, to a housewife in Belgium 

. . . all explaining what being able to participate each year in a global wave 

of healing intent has meant to them.

"By doing extra T'ai Chi and Qigong forms and exercises during this year's World 

Tai Chi & Qigong Day I was able to positively transform that melancholic anger 

into a peaceful and positive mindset, enhanced by knowing that people world wide 

were also in a peaceful connected state of mind." -- Paul Claroni, American 

Vietnam Veteran

"Dear Mr Bill, thankyou for your interesting in me and for your help. I enjoy 

that day with all the taichi people, my firiends and Elaine. I am feelng not well 

for now but I will hopfully be better soon, I like Tai chi and find it very nice 

to praktis my relaxation. Keep in touch with me and I will to. good job. Best 

wishes." -- Hannan Shihab, Iraq

"I also send you a picture of me that has been taken on WTCQD 30-4-2005. It's a 

picture of a happy woman who couldn't stand for more than ten minutes on two feet 

eight years ago because her whole body was aching ! I work now as a counsellor for 

the health of body and soul ! With all my love !" -- Hilda Cardinaels, Belgium

The event is moving and emotional, yet also offers very practical possibilities for 

global health & healing. For example, about seven years ago a local television news 

station was interviewing a World Tai Chi & Qigong Day (WTCQD) event organizer, the 

morning before the event. A woman was watching the interview and learning about 

medical research on tai chi & qigong’s ability to possibly help with chronic pain 

and limited mobility. The woman told her daughter, who was recovering from being 

hit by a car and experiencing chronic pain and limited mobility, that she should 

go to this “world tai chi day” event and learn about tai chi.

She and her daughter did end up attending, and from there, not only learned tai 

chi & qigong by joining local classes, but the daughter, Linda Bowers, became a 

tai chi teacher. Linda now teaches tai chi at various locations including one for 

the Kansas State women’s prison, where she has taught fifty women the tai chi long 

form, and five of these women have received teaching certificates that Linda presented 

to the Governor of Kansas last year. These women’s lives are changed for the better 

forever. I remember when I taught tai chi & qigong for the court drug rehabilitation 

program in Kansas City, and addicts in the program would thank me after classes for 

giving them a chance to feel well-being rather than gnawing need. Their lives were 

changed forever, because now they had life tools that no one had ever told them 

existed.

Multiply Linda’s story by the tens of thousands participating worldwide in sixty 

nations on the last Saturday of April each year, and you have a world-changing event 

in every sense of the word.

Who can participate in World Tai Chi & Qigong Day? Everyone in the world. By visiting 

worldtaichiday.org, and clicking on “Everyone’s Resources” you’ll see a “World TC & QG

 Day Events Locater,” that will guide you to your country and state where you can find

 WTCQD events in your area. For those groups already doing tai chi or qigong, you’ll 

find a “Schools Resources” menu at worldtaichiday.org with many Event Organizing resources 

to use to create a successful event, and a free listing for your classes / event.

Where are events held? Generally in public places, and in hundreds of cities in sixty 

nations on six continents. There is likely an event near where you live. Just go to 

worldtaichiday.org to find one near you.

Free teach-ins are part of most events, so you will be able to learn a little tai chi or 

qigong, and follow along a little bit with the mass exhibition that will be held to join 

in with the hundreds of other events rolling across the planet toward and after yours.

World Tai Chi & Qigong Day is a unique blend of fun, serious health education, and life

altering movement for a global audience hungry for simple natural solutions to the growing 

complex problems of our world. Emerging medical research indicates that tai chi & qigong may

profoundly improve the lives of millions suffering from common chronic health challenges, 

if they only knew about tai chi & qigong. Given some of the staggering findings,

such as tai 

chi’s ability to boost immune system function (UCLA), or dramatically reduce Attention Deficit 

and Hyperactivity Disorder symptoms in high school students (University of Miami School of 

Medicine), lower high blood pressure, heal heart disease (BBC), build bone mass, improve 

breathing, etc. etc. one would think that there would be billions of dollars poured into 

developing and spreading these tools farther and faster to the millions who’d benefit from 

them.

However, that is not happening. Our health establishment and media seem incapable of exploring 

and promoting non-surgery, non-drug, solutions to our global health challenges, in a way that 

would be appropriate for such highly effective therapy according to preliminary tai chi & qigong 

research. Therefore, World Tai Chi & Qigong Day is also designed to provide popular culture 

media with an “opportunity” to do a great service to the millions worldwide who remain ignorant 

of natural health therapies that could do their lives much good. World Tai Chi & Qigong Day hopes 

to work in partnership with media, government, business, etc. worldwide to improve personal and 

global health through information.

Governors of over sixteen US states, senates and mayors of many countries have officially 

proclaimed World Tai Chi & Qigong Day for their states, cities, or country. The United Nations

 World Health Organization has recognized the work of World Tai Chi & Qigong Day. However there 

is much more to do. Until everyone is aware of the benefits to their lives tai chi & qigong may 

offer, and simple natural solutions are given the attention they deserve in our media . . . the 

work of World Tai Chi & Qigong Day will go on.

Actually, even if all that happens, it’ll still go on, because its just “FUN” to play tai chi & 

qigong with the world each year, and it just “FEELS GOOD.” Join us for World Tai Chi & Qigong Day 

the world, and have some fun !

Copyright 2022 Sameer shaikh