I started looking for teachers of “Daoist” Martial, Meditative, and Medicinal Arts because I was suffering and looking for holistic answers. The western college & professional sport culture (that I did have some success in) had given me my identity, jobs, and community but ultimately left my body feeling broken down and my mind frustrated and confused. I knew that there was some wealth of wisdom out there, that could explain the connection between mind and body, between subtle energy and physicality, and between movement and medicine in a way that I had always intuitively known was real, but felt my modern training & education skipped over entirely. So I started looking East, to recover the embodied wisdom that my injuries and shortcomings were showing me I was missing.
However, not all schools are created equal. There are many schools that say that they teach martial arts from a spiritual perspective, but quite often, their arts lack both martial application and any legitimate spiritual framework. Traditional Chinese Martial Arts and Traditional Chinese Medicine have co-developed hand in hand over millenniums, however, in modern times it is quite rare that a martial arts teachers has more than a very rudimentary understanding of any type of traditional medicine. And there are even teachers from authentic traditions that hold a wealth of knowledge, but lack the ability to connect that knowledge to the reality of modern living. Whether martial, meditative, medicinal, philosophical, whatever - there are very few legitimate sources and teachers within the Daoist tradition teaching in the west. If you look online, there are so many locations you can travel to, in China or the Western World, to learn about Daoism. In the Wudang Mountains, for example, there are dozens of temples within the massive 72 peak pilgrimage site. Only one of those temples is open to non-Chinese students: the Five Immortals Temple on White Horse Peak. And the reason that it is open to us is due to the efforts of my teacher, Shifu Lindsey Wei (Wei Cheng Ling, 魏诚灵) (above, foreground), and her teacher, the abbot of Five Immortals Temple, affectionately known as Li Shifu (Li Song Feng 李师父).
I am incredibly fortunate that destiny allowed me to come into contact with these incredible practitioners & teachers, to continue to learn from them, and now to help spread these teachings, culture & community. To come across a lineage that has passed down its wisdom and practices on a 1 to 1 basis for more than 20 generations before beginning to teach to a wider audience is humbling. These people have dedicated their lives to these arts and practices, and I am honored to be considered a certified instructor of Wudang White Horse & to have been given a Daoist name (信罡, Xin Gang) in the 24th generation of Chunyang Longmen Daoist practitioners. It is a privilege and a blessing to use my time and resources to continue their vision. Please read more about the lineage & my teachers here and to see more Wudang White Horse offerings.
What is that vision? To create centers of education and practice to promote authentic Daoist Arts. And what are those arts that make up the scope of the Wudang White Horse Curriculum?
- Qigong (Hard, Soft & Yangsheng Practices)
- Seated Meditation
- Authentic Wudang Martial Arts
- Taiji (Wudang Heavenly Horse Tai Chi)
- Bagua (Chunyang Five Dragon Big Dipper Form)
- 7 Star Straight Sword (Jian)
- Daoist Scripture
- Traditional Chinese Medical Skills
- Alchemy
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