Breathing gurus start teaching

Breathing gurus start teaching

JAKARTA (JP): Two Shanghai-based breathing exercise experts
yesterday began a three day program to teach around 400
Indonesian tai chi trainers how to do the exercises properly.

Their visit is part of the realization of a memorandum of
understanding on sports cooperation signed on Nov. 24 last year
between the Indonesian Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports and
China's Commission for Physical Culture and Sports.

The Chinese art of breathing exercises coupled with other
exercises become a popular public morning exercise in Indonesia
in the 1980s and has since become known as Senam Tera Indonesia
and Senam Pernapasan Indonesia.

Since then, groups practicing the exercises have mushroomed in
Indonesia. Some have developed incorrect breathing techniques
while exercising, which the visiting experts are expected to
correct.(arf)