{Ancient Chinese Art Stands Test of Modern Times} {Ancient Chinese Art Stands the Modern Test of Time}
TWENTY years ago, exercise was all about "the burn".
We responded to Olivia Newton-John's entreaties to get physical; donning ourselves in lycra shorts, headbands and leg-warmers and working out until it hurt.
But at around the same time as we sweated and burned in the name of health and fitness, a very different kind of exercise came to Toowoomba.
New for regional centres such as this, it was nevertheless a form of exercise dating back many hundreds of years and promising well-being without the pain.
It was tai chi - and Toowoomba man Lindsay Sheedy became one of its very first proponents.
"I guess back then, anyone who did things like tai chi was considered to be a bit of a hippy," the St Ursula's teacher of math and science says.
"But I was attracted to the relaxation that tai chi could bring, and interested in holistic exercise that brought together the body and the …
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Article title: {Ancient Chinese Art Stands Test of Modern Times} {Ancient Chinese Art Stands the Modern Test of Time}.
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Newspaper title: The Chronicle (Toowoomba, Australia).
Publication date: June 27, 2009.
Page number: 1.
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