World T'ai Chi & Qigong Day Description (from worldtaichiday.org)

On the last Saturday of April each year at 10 am, beginning in the Earth's earliest time zone, a peaceful soothing event will unfold, and change the world forever, as it blooms around the Earth throughout the entire day--time zone by time zone. Gently and effortlessly the world will breathe together in a T'ai Chi & QiGong relay of calm. We have all experienced the soothing calm of witnessing others doing T'ai Chi or QiGong and on World T'ai Chi & QiGong Day the entire planet will have that opportunity.

World T'ai Chi & QiGong Day is held on the same day as the United Nations World Healing Day and Earth Day. T'ai Chi & QiGong groups in mass gatherings in public parks or the lawns of public buildings around the world gather at 10 am (local time) to exhibit T'ai Chi & QiGong to the community, the media, and the world.

There are 4 purposes for staging this historic event:
1. To educate the world to the profound implications T'ai Chi & QiGong can offer our personal, social and world health.
2. To thank Chinese culture for providing this powerful health science to the world.
3. To improve international relations by joining T'ai Chi & QiGong practitioners around the world in celebration.
4. To provide a mighty example of how the emerging power of the Internet can be used to promote world cooperation and health, since most of the organizing of this event is done via the Internet through web pages like www.worldtaichiday.org.