Chunyi Lin at the Spring Forest Qigong center in Eden Prairie. “You have to go deep into the heart to find the peace,” said Lin, sitting in one of the six-year-old center’s meeting rooms ...

Chunyi Lin of Chanhassen, the creator of this type of qigong practice, is “the real deal,” Johnson said. In his book, “Born a Healer,” Lin says, “Qigong means to cultivate or refine one ...

“Nobody knew of qigong,” said Mr. Lin, 49, a master of the age-old practice, which entails coordinating slow movements with breathing to cultivate the flow of energy, or qi, in a sort of ...