{"id":632,"date":"2023-04-17T18:11:08","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T18:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abship.ca\/?page_id=632"},"modified":"2023-04-17T18:11:08","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T18:11:08","slug":"baduanjin-qigong","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.abship.ca\/index.php\/home\/baduanjin-qigong\/","title":{"rendered":"Baduanjin Qigong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull is-light has-large-font-size\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-20 has-background-dim\"><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1709\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-628\" alt=\"Baduanjin Qigong\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abship.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/pexels-hebert-santos-8461244-scaled.jpg\" style=\"object-position:47% 37%\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" data-object-position=\"47% 37%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.abship.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/pexels-hebert-santos-8461244-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.abship.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/pexels-hebert-santos-8461244-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.abship.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/pexels-hebert-santos-8461244-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.abship.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/pexels-hebert-santos-8461244-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.abship.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/pexels-hebert-santos-8461244-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.abship.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/pexels-hebert-santos-8461244-2048x1367.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-white-color has-text-color has-x-large-font-size\"><strong>Baduanjin Qigong<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-container uagb-block-74609926 alignfull uagb-is-root-container\"><div class=\"uagb-container-inner-blocks-wrap\">\n<p>Baduanjin Qigong is one of the oldest mindfulness-based exercises for health and wellbeing. Developed in China about 1000 years ago, this exercise has been well established as a safe and easy to learn, yet highly effective adjunct intervention.<br><br>Baduanjin\u00a0Qiong\u00a0has been found to be beneficial in improving quality of life, balance, handgrip strength, trunk flexibility, and diastolic blood pressure. It alleviates musculoskeletal pain, improves sleep quality for patients with chronic illnesses, improves clinical outcomes for knee osteoarthritis patients, enhances cognitive function and memory for patients with mild cognitive impairments, improves exercise capability and pulmonary function of COPD patients, improves blood pressure in hypertension patients, and alleviates anxiety, depression, distress, and fatigue in cancer patients.\u00a0\u00a0<br><br>Please watch the following video on how to start practising Baduanjin by Master Shanji<br><br><strong>Please enable subtitles\/closed captions (bottom right of video screen \u201cCC\u201d logo ) so that English Subtitles are displayed.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u9054\u6469\u6613\u7b4b\u7d93 \u4e4b\u516b\u6bb5\u9326(\u4e2d\u6587\u5b57\u5e55)+\u5169\u500b\u8981\u8a23HD \uff20\u6167\u65e5\u5584\u6fdf\u6cd5\u5e2b\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j1MlUrmPwMk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baduanjin Qigong is one of the oldest mindfulness-based exercises for health and wellbeing. Developed in China about 1000 years ago, this exercise has been well established as a safe and easy to learn, yet highly effective adjunct intervention. Baduanjin\u00a0Qiong\u00a0has been found to be beneficial in improving quality of life, balance, handgrip strength, trunk flexibility, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":49,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"content-type":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Jamie Lo","author_link":"https:\/\/www.abship.ca\/index.php\/author\/jamie\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Baduanjin Qigong is one of the oldest mindfulness-based exercises for health and wellbeing. 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