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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1999   -  METRO SECTION

Ruyi Zen Class

Followers of qigong perform the "Ruyi Zen" exercise at a midtown Qigong Center.

     

By VIVIAN S. TOY

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Yi Wu and his wife, Rong-Er Shen, run classes and see dozens of patients each week at their qigong center in midtown Manhattan.
At a recent healing session, Wu gathered his qi by going through the deliberate movements of his own style of qigong. Then, from across the room, he projected his qi out of his forehead towards his patient, Carl Peterson, a retired physicist who suffers from abdominal cancer.
Wu never laid hands on Peterson, but he said his qi had created "a very strong energy field that allowed the patient to feel restful so that his body could then slowly repair itself." When Wu was done, Peterson said he felt as though the tension had been drained out of him and been replaced by "a sense of well being." He added that he didn't go to Wu "looking for a cure for cancer. I came to build up my energy and the energy is definitely coming back."
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