I practice qigong every day. I also pray every day. I train 5-6 days a week. I don't do yoga or a lot of meditation. Occaisionally I engage in other restorative activities. I feel like I am a sensative person. I find all of these activities build my qi.

Does that give me a modicum of training in this area?

Because I work with numbers of people in out-of-dojo experiences, I believe that people experience having reservoirs of healthy qi with many different vocabularies and explanations for their consequent healthy state. I trust their descriptions and satisfaction with their own experience and conclude that there are many ways to get there.

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but imagine living well into your 90s and 100s. That's what this *ancient* technology allows us to do.

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Not sure I follow you there. Wouldn't most decent exercise plans keep people healthy in their senior years? Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but you make it sound like longetivity is a province only of qigong.

George Burns smoked cigars and lived till he was 100. Many centenarians and super-centenarians have made various claim as to their lifestyle, like clean air, vegetarianism, the occasional indulgence in smoking and drinking, but never IIRC, have they made any claim that they attributed their longevity to qigong.

By the same token, many apparently healthy people die prematurely, from heart attack, cancer and other common diseases, despite living and eating well, exercising regularly etc....

So, you don't need to do qigong to help prolong longevity... but you can't say that healthy living and exercise helps either.

I'm just saying, that's the thinking behind (Taoist) qigong (breath work), whether that's true or not... draw your own conclusions.