Qi Gong, also known as Chi Kung, is a traditional Chinese exercise that seeks to enhance balance, body awareness, and overall well being through deep breathing akin to pranayama in yoga and relaxation with gentle movements of hands, legs, waist and spine in a specific way so as to exercise all the muscles and joints of the body.

Practicing Qi Gong helps in developing vital energy particularly for health, vitality, mind expansion and spiritual cultivation, promoting youthfulness and longevity, expanding the mind and the intellect, overcoming psychological problems and preventing all kinds of illness, including diseases like asthma, diabetes, hypertension and cancer which are generally considered "incurable" by conventional medicine.