A great mix of people came to the Tao Brothers Wellness Walk in Philadelphia, black, white, young, old, Muslim, Christian, Taoist, plump, skinny, advanced qigong practitioners and beginners. Once again, Accem and Michael stirred up the melting pot, breaking stereotypes and getting people relaxing, breathing and moving! Each stop on our journey along the stream in Valley Green brought folks into deeper levels of awareness of their bodies and their surroundings in Nature.
One woman said, “I come here every day to run, but I never really pay attention to what’s around me because I’m so busy with myself. Today I actually saw the trees and the stream.” Others said they were more aware of the light and colors playing around them, or the sounds of the birds. Many said people often told them that they were breathing wrong, but nobody ever told them the right way to breathe. They were very enthusiastic to learn our simple deep breathing methods.
One highlight of the walk was doing movements from the Five Treasures form, produced by the National Qigong Association (www.nqa.org), on a stone bridge over running water. This gave us a concrete example of “being in the flow” with Nature. When it was over, a woman named Rahima said, “I feel like a river of liquids and energy is running through my body!”
Tao Brothers are an affiliate of the National Qigong Association and are advancing the goal of the NQA’s Healing Wave Project by spreading Qigong across America.
Check out a short video of the walk and the powerful testimonials of first-time practitioners at
http://vimeo.com/1555533
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