Sweden: Practitioners Invited to Demonstrate the Exercises at a Health Seminar in Lerum

Between the 31st of August and the 3rd of September were special days for a healthier and happier Lerum. On Wednesday the 31st of August a seminar by the famous Swedish personal trainer Blossom Tainton was held in the Lerum Derg Theatre. Ms. Tainton is famous for television appearances and is the author of books about healthy living and keeping fit. Many people went to her seminar.

Falun Gong practitioners were invited to demonstrate the five sets of exercises and inform the participants about the practice of Falun Gong outside the theatre during the time when participants walked to the seminars and the breaks. Falun Gong is an ancient form of Qigong for body and mind. It consists of five sets of peaceful exercises that are easy to learn and suit all ages. Four of the exercises are standing and the other is a sitting meditation. The practice has received many citations and accolades in the west for positive effects on spiritual and physical health and has spread to more that sixty countries around the whole world.

There were about three hundred and fifty people attending the seminar. Almost everybody was given a pamphlet introducing the practice of Falun Gong and explaining why this peaceful method is so brutally persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party. There were many people who stopped to watch when Falun Gong practitioners demonstrated the exercises, which are an essential part of this cultivation method.