For Researchers

A Powerful New T’ai Chi (Taiji) and Qigong Research Platform 

Dr. Yang Yang’s weekly online live classes in t’ai chi (taiji) and qigong fundamentals — a system now known as WaQi — offers an ideal platform for researchers to study the health benefits and mechanisms of these healing arts. Participants learn simple exercises and meditation practices, selected carefully from traditional Chinese t’ai chi and qigong training, that address fundamental health issues, such as sleep, stress, mood, balance, fall prevention, fatigue, bone density and so forth. The online WaQi curriculum is affordable and allows the participants to experience a group class in the comfort of their own home.

We have just completed one study, led by Dr. Judi Fouladbakhsh of Oakland University and her team, on the effects of t’ai chi and qigong on self-management of pain, stress and sleep in breast cancer survivors. We have an ongoing randomized, controlled trial, led by Dr. Lin Yang, a cancer epidemiologist at Cancer Care Alberta, testing the efficacy of our WaQi program in reducing anxiety in prostate cancer patients before prostate removal surgery, and reducing treatment-related side effects afterwards. In January, we will be launching a new study with researchers at Northwell Health, New York’s largest healthcare provider evaluating uterine cancer survivors who practice our WaQi program.

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