Health. Energy. Longevity. Mysteries which the Chinese have been unraveling for centuries. As an East-West crossroads, Hong Kong is the perfect place for your achievers to learn how Chinese people battle stress and fatigue - valuable skills in today's workplace. In a variety of fascinating programmes, your incentive guests will learn how the ancient techniques of herbal medicine, tai chi (shadow boxing), acupressure and reflexology can help them look great and feel fabulous. They'll benefit from added energy. And so will your company.

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Qigong: Eternal Force of Life

Qi is the life force. It flows through everything, say the Chinese. And you can control it. Qigong is an ancient form of exercise allowing one to direct the flow of the life force, restoring health and improving fitness. Your guests will learn from a master the basics of channeling qi, doing breathing exercises that cleanse the body and improve circulation of blood and qi. Qigong is a relaxing, invigorating discipline that will give your achievers a new way of using their energy resources.

Where: Various open spaces or indoor function room.
Duration: 45 minutes - 1 hour
Group Size: 20-30 per instructor per session.
What's More:  After the qigong session, you might want to treat your winners to dim sum and Chinese tea. Tea, according to Chinese medicine, is another aid to good health.

The Art of Tai Chi Swordsmanship

Balance. Focus. Strength. Qualities needed by both ancient warriors and modern business people. The martial art of kung fu is famous worldwide, thanks to Hong Kong son Bruce Lee, but few Westerners are aware of the more peaceful art of tai chi swordplay. Used in ancient times to improve mental reactions and health, tai chi swordplay involves slow movements performed while holding a metre-long wooden sword. The goal is to achieve a supreme level of balance, and to harness and focus one's energies. First, a master teaches your guests the basic movements. Then, 10-person competitive teams, or "battle units", are formed to compete and display their new-found swordsmanship. A fitting reward for your best warriors!

Where: Open space or hotel ballroom
Duration: 45 minutes - 1 hour
Group Size: Flexible

The Gentle Art of Root Massage

Do you appreciate your feet? Traditional Chinese medicine regards them as the most important part of our body. They contain areas that reflect all our major organs. Apply pressure to the right parts and you can diagnose and help prevent diseases. Participants in this fascinating programme will be briefed on Chinese foot massage and will view a demonstration. They will then undergo a treatment themselves. Your guests will be surprised how wonderful they feel afterwards. Relaxed and invigorated, they'll never look at their feet the same way again!

Where: Hotel function rooms or private clubs or Foot Reflexology Shops.
Duration: Approximately 2 hours.
Group Size: Flexible
What's More: Larger groups can be divided into teams, with some doing qigong and/or acupoint massage.

Harvesting the Secrets of Health

For millennia the Chinese have studied the curative qualities of plants, passing on the knowledge from generation to generation. Traditional Chinese medicine shops offer herbs in the hundreds, for almost every imaginable medical condition. These cures speak volumes about the Chinese philosophy of food and health. Your guests will follow an experienced herbalist to tiny Cheung Chau Island, to find and pick a variety of fresh herbs. A Chinese herbalist will demonstrate how to brew the collected herbs into tea, after which your winners can taste the teas and gain some health benefits in addition to their insights into age-old medical practices.

Where: Ferries leave for Cheung Chau from the Outlying Islands Ferry Pier in Central.
Duration: Two (2) hours, not including the trip to Cheung Chau Island, which takes one hour each way. Charter ferry shuttle is also available.
Group Size: Five (5) per instructor. Larger groups can be divided into two routings, and further divided into teams.
What's More: Your guests can incorporate tai chi and/or qigong as a warm-up exercise before the walks for a more rewarding and authentic experience of Chinese medicine and health arts.

Acu-Point Massage: Vital & to the Point

Where did acupuncture come from? Did someone notice that soldiers wounded by arrows recovered from ailments in other parts of their bodies? Did semi-divine sages first map the body's meridians? Whatever its origins in legend, centuries of trial and error have evolved into a refined and detailed clinical methodology. The Chinese believe that adding pressure to certain points on the body can enhance the circulation of qi and blood. In Hong Kong, acupoint massage is often used as a remedy for many kinds of pain. Your guests have a chance to partake of an ancient cure to enhance their well-being in the modern world.

Where: Hotel function rooms or private clubs or Acupuncture shops
Duration: 20-30 minutes per person for acupoint massage.
Group Size: Flexible
What's More: For larger groups of 30-40 people, you might wish to offer several health- related programmes, such as foot reflexology concurrently, to reduce waiting times.

A Storehouse of Medicinal Treasures

Yin and Yang. Negative and Positive. Masculine and Feminine. All of life involves the balancing of opposing forces, according to the Chinese. When the balance is disturbed in our bodies, our health suffers. To correct the balance, a herbalist will often prescribe a variety of roots, barks, twigs, seeds, flowers and other natural substances. This programme provides a fascinating insight into Chinese medicine, which has been used with success for millennia. A knowledgeable guide will take your winners to a Chinese medicine shop to explore the means of diagnosis and treatment. They will also visit the Nam Pak Hong (literally the South-North Trading Centre), well known in the city's wholesale ginseng and medicinal herb trade.

Where: Western District
Duration: 1 hour
Group Size: 20-30 people
What's More: Your guests would enjoy a tonic lunch, prepared with various herbal ingredients after the tour.

The Chinese Art of Healthy Eating

Dine on a snake, and live to tell the tale! For Chinese, eating and health can never be separated. They eat to keep healthy and live long. In winter, people add exotic ingredients (snakes, bird's nests, etc) to dishes to keep warm and preserve energy. Every food item, from bamboo shoots to bananas to ginger, has its own properties of "heating" or "cooling" which help balance the body's natural forces. Your guests will have a chance to visit a specialty tonic restaurant where a variety of health dishes are served. The adventurous ones can sample snake soup, sea cucumber or blackleg chicken.

Where: A Chinese restaurant serving tonic food.
Duration: Approximately 1 to 2 hours
Group Size: Flexible. The programme can be incorporated into a lunch or dinner.
What's More: You can arrange a Chinese cooking class for your winners so they can learnhow to make these exotic dishes.

Tea: Preferred Drink of One Billion People

The art of tea drinking is essentially Chinese. Tea is drunk for health, and is poured as an offering to friends. It accompanies an everyday dim sum breakfast and is given to the bride before marriage. The best way for your winners to learn about the many facets of this Chinese practice is to visit specialty tea houses, where they can learn the technique of tea brewing and sample choice potions.

Where: Tea shops.
Duration: 30-45 minutes, not including travel.
Group Size: 20-30 people.
What's More: Your guests would enjoy a visit to the Flagstaff House Museum of Tea Ware where a fascinating and informative talk on tea could be arranged.

The Art of Cooking

It's all in the preparation they say. Chinese cooking is an art that takes a lifetime to master, but an attentive student can quickly learn enough tips and tricks to make some delightful meals at home. Cooking classes can be arranged in cooking school, or at selected hotels or other venues.  It can begin with a visit to a traditional wet market, where participants will learn how to select fresh ingredients. Then a chef will demonstrate some of the facets of the most tempting of cuisines, giving them a gift that they will enjoy with their loved ones the rest of their lives.

Where: Cooking School or institute or hotel function room
Duration: 4 hours
Group Size: Flexible
What's More: A visit to the wet market can be arranged where the guests will get a chance to choose and pick fresh ingredients.

Feng Shuhi: Bringing Peace & Tranquility to Home/ Office

Feng Shui, or "wind & water", is a 3,000-year-old system of geomantic divination teaching humans how to achieve harmony with the forces of nature and change, thereby gaining well-being and prosperity.

In modern Hong Kong, you might have thought that feng shui would have been dismissed as mumbo-jumbo. But not so; in fact many of the soaring office and apartment blocks that now punctuate the skyline were laid out in accordance with feng shui principles. The lessons of feng shui are universal, and the supernatural “luck-bringing energy” of the world dragons can be harnessed everywhere in the world.  

Stops include the Lung Cheung Road Lookout Point, Nine Dragons Wall in Wanchai, Statue Square in Central.

Where: In the City Centre of Hong Kong
Duration: 3.5 - 4 hours
Group Size: Flexible
What's More: A healthy lunch can be arrange prior or after the tour.