Seminar on Internal Qi Nourishment of Nhat Nam Martial Arts School

(Baonghean.vn) - On the afternoon of August 17 in Vinh City, the Provincial Association of the Elderly coordinated with the Vo Nhat Nam Representative Board in Nghe An to organize the second workshop on internal Qi health care.

Attending the workshop were Ms. Nguyen Thi Thanh Huong, Deputy Director of the Department of Culture - Sports and Tourism; Mr. Tran Huu Ich, Chairman of the Association of the Elderly in Nghe An province; Mr. Nghiem Thanh Dong, Head of the representative board of Vo Nhat Nam in Nghe An province; representatives of the leaders of the Provincial Fatherland Front Committee, the Provincial Party Committee's Mass Mobilization Committee, the Provincial Women's Union and representatives of the Association of the Elderly in 21 districts, cities and towns...

Conference Scene

According to incomplete statistics, by the end of July 2015, there were 107 wards, communes and towns of 9 urban districts with 14,418 elderly people practicing the Qi Noi Dich - Nhat Nam martial arts exercise. With a dynamic and creative spirit, depending on the circumstances of each locality, the Elderly Association of the districts has had many ways of doing things with many different models to quickly replicate the exercise not only to the communes but also to the hamlets and branches; promptly meeting the requirements of the practitioners...

For example, the Elderly Association of Yen Thanh and Quynh Luu districts has opened a concentrated class for the whole district, by each commune sending 2-3 people who are quick learners and passionate about exercise, these people will directly teach the branches and the elderly in the commune. Or in Hung Nguyen, Nam Dan and Cua Lo districts, a commune with a sports movement was chosen as a model, thereby promoting the exercises and drawing experience as a basis for expansion to the whole district...

Ms. Nguyen Thi Thanh Huong, Deputy Director of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism spoke at the workshop.

Assessing the situation of the training movement and the effectiveness of the Nhat Nam internal Qi exercise over the past 5 years (2010-2015), at the workshop, there were 13 opinions from participating groups and individuals. In addition to the opinions that the exercise is good, bringing both health and spirit to the practitioners, the elderly also had recommendations and proposals such as: needing to strengthen propaganda work, introducing the exercise on mass media; being given more specific instructions for each movement towards treating diseases that the elderly often encounter; opening training courses for instructors for localities with appropriate scale...

Mr. Tran Huu Ich, Chairman of the Elderly Association of Nghe An province, read the opening speech of the workshop.

Through this workshop, the Nghe An Association of the Elderly hopes that the elderly will always uphold the spirit of responding to the campaign "All people exercise following the example of great Uncle Ho". Continue to bring the practice of internal Qi and martial arts Nhat Nam to truly spread widely and be replicated throughout the province.

Ngoc Anh