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Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.okanaganvalleywudang.com/ribbitribbit/hermitage monthly 0.5 2025-09-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/fa1cd169-545f-409e-9ac0-08d3b260493c/warmerxuanwusmile.jpeg Idle Croaks from the Bottom of a Well - "the hermitage" - Make it stand out Brandi journaling during her recent retreat with Zhenwu 真武 looking over her shoulder https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1757809368107-6LL4K80FZNJ82A8BS3WH/1000017618.jpeg Idle Croaks from the Bottom of a Well - "the hermitage" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1757809371237-FP496W0EN2EOSTOQFXY1/1000017620.jpeg Idle Croaks from the Bottom of a Well - "the hermitage" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1757809380233-9YK179HCPGTK4S8XIUOM/1000017664.jpeg Idle Croaks from the Bottom of a Well - "the hermitage" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1757812916566-SC3T54EWD8AKSWUV5WKK/1000017680.jpeg Idle Croaks from the Bottom of a Well - 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Simon 柯资乾 (upper right), Brandi 贝资自 (lower left) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1611504895146-MFWE56CT31NXEAGUW8CW/Zzzzzzhong.jpg Wudang San Feng Sect History Grandmaster Zhong practicing the Hibernating Dragon Sleeping Method 蛰龙睡法 near his cave on Five Dragons Peak 五龙顶. The inner alchemy of our lineage stems from the Song Dynasty master Chen Tuan 陳摶, who pioneered a method of sleep and dream alchemy. All of the inner alchemy we learned from our master was taught lying down. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1578351371954-OKFZZ3PRB8MGITIROMKS/Wudang+San+Feng+Lineage.jpg Wudang San Feng Sect History Master Wang Guang De 王光德 (center), Master Zhong Yun Long 钟云龙 (right) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1586216166759-2UUXE3SJULJY53SL4U0P/zhuchende_upscaled_illustration_x4.jpg Wudang San Feng Sect History Master Zhu Cheng De 朱诚德 performing a magical hand seal 手印, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1578351724177-L9C8H7WS9HZB40GELBNX/Wudang+Master+Guo.jpg Wudang San Feng Sect History Master Guo Gao Yi 郭高一 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1611501365820-B18NBZI9MXDEAZ95AHKE/c7a0a4e23880402283729f5e8baef257_th.jpg Wudang San Feng Sect History Master Guo Gaoyi, through whom most of the martial arts in our lineage was transmitted, and Zhong Yunlong, 1980’s https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1579046870758-0Y72WAB4LVG1P2FNAMKH/Wudang+Master+Zhao.png Wudang San Feng Sect History Zhao Jianying 赵剑英, master of Taiyi Five Elements Fist 太乙五行拳 and Eight Immortals Sword 八仙剑 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1579046287277-NRFAU65RF0XM3CQYP7IK/Wudang+Master+Lu.jpg Wudang San Feng Sect History Lu Zijian 吕紫剑, master of internal martial arts 内家拳 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1578352176799-0GJ3WP64PX2L4FF7WJMV/Wudang+Master+Yuan.jpg Wudang San Feng Sect History Master Yuan 袁修刚 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1611510655693-G6IBAC29IEYVHG7K7MSF/8877_454097757984305_1185034607_n.jpg Wudang San Feng Sect History Our class 三班 - Simon 柯资乾 (upper right), Brandi 贝资自 (lower left) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1611504895146-MFWE56CT31NXEAGUW8CW/Zzzzzzhong.jpg Wudang San Feng Sect History Grandmaster Zhong practicing the Hibernating Dragon Sleeping Method 蛰龙睡法 near his cave on Five Dragons Peak 五龙顶. The inner alchemy of our lineage stems from the Song Dynasty master Chen Tuan 陳摶, who pioneered a method of sleep and dream alchemy. 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Searching for Guo Gaoyi Master Guo gazing into the distance https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1578681852990-VTU4U7XMN2S7MM6VSLLN/Wudang+Guo+1.jpeg Searching for Guo Gaoyi Daoist Master Guo Gao Yi practicing sword in the snow https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1578681929595-721PENEDP2G2ISQDO0L6/Wudang+Guo+2.jpeg Searching for Guo Gaoyi The author in a picture with master Guo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1578681961229-G2NTD73P2ZPLI4LYCGW1/Wudang+Guo+3.jpeg Searching for Guo Gaoyi Master Guo demonstrating a graceful Wudang posture https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1578682002015-WG72BQMXTPTMZSKG52N9/Wudang+Guo+4.jpeg Searching for Guo Gaoyi Master Guo gazing into the distance https://www.okanaganvalleywudang.com/wudang-northern-longfist daily 0.75 2022-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1583541779034-RTWOHFJKSQJFJV5E6OY0/Master%2BYuan%2BDragon%2BFist.jpg Northern Longfist Master Yuan performing Raking Claw 探爪 from Dragon Fist 龙华拳 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1583613888189-7YLGNZVRSE87VYL8CB42/%E5%AD%99%E7%8E%84%E6%B8%85.jpg Northern Longfist A statue of the Golden Mountain sect patriarch Sun Xuanqing 孙玄清 at Laoshan 崂山. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1583952677012-DO9SC3XULVNIGZQ682KY/Master+Kuang.jpg Northern Longfist Master Kuang 匡常修 (left) with Golden Mountain Sect master Wang Huai Shan 王怀山 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1583949980767-O7G892CS0YN2VWFF7HYG/Kuang+Chang+Xiu2.jpg Northern Longfist Master Kuang 匡常修 practicing Turning Yin Palm 反阴掌 from Xuan Gong Quan Yilu 玄功拳一路 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1588031391662-I9MATR50HF7Q98M41YLA/KCX.jpg Northern Longfist Master Kuang in his 80’s doing the splits https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1583954524566-IZFQYNA4ICY6D4OY80F7/Master+Zhong%2C+Wang%2C+and+Youxuande Northern Longfist Master Zhong 钟云龙 practicing Northern Style Flying Kick 飞腿 in sparring, 13th generation grandmaster Wang Guangde 王光德 in the background https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1583541779034-RTWOHFJKSQJFJV5E6OY0/Master%2BYuan%2BDragon%2BFist.jpg Northern Longfist Master Yuan performing Raking Claw 探爪 from Dragon Fist 龙华拳 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1583613888189-7YLGNZVRSE87VYL8CB42/%E5%AD%99%E7%8E%84%E6%B8%85.jpg Northern Longfist A statue of the Golden Mountain sect patriarch Sun Xuanqing 孙玄清 at Laoshan 崂山. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1583952677012-DO9SC3XULVNIGZQ682KY/Master+Kuang.jpg Northern Longfist Master Kuang 匡常修 (left) with Golden Mountain Sect master Wang Huai Shan 王怀山 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1583949980767-O7G892CS0YN2VWFF7HYG/Kuang+Chang+Xiu2.jpg Northern Longfist Master Kuang 匡常修 practicing Turning Yin Palm 反阴掌 from Xuan Gong Quan Yilu 玄功拳一路 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1588031391662-I9MATR50HF7Q98M41YLA/KCX.jpg Northern Longfist Master Kuang in his 80’s doing the splits https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1583954524566-IZFQYNA4ICY6D4OY80F7/Master+Zhong%2C+Wang%2C+and+Youxuande Northern Longfist Master Zhong 钟云龙 practicing Northern Style Flying Kick 飞腿 in sparring, 13th generation grandmaster Wang Guangde 王光德 in the background https://www.okanaganvalleywudang.com/wudang-taijiquan daily 0.75 2024-08-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1585248759949-AZI9HOTTNS9I27QJEKLL/16986a25cec7476ea96adc3f947200ab.jpeg Wudang Taijiquan Master Zhong 钟云龙 practicing Tai Chi posture Grasping the Sparrow’s Tail 揽雀尾 at Five Dragons Temple 五龙宫 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1584391419949-3KV3VKMN9WBE32N4K5CR/sanfengbirdsnake.jpg Wudang Taijiquan Wall painting entitled “Magpie and snake playfighting” 鹊蛇嬉斗图 from Wudang’s Purple Cloud Palace 紫霄宫 depicting Zhang San Feng’s inspired creation of Tai Chi. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1586793671562-ZBA4FH2897O090JN1F2F/southerncliff.jpg Wudang Taijiquan Southern Cliff Palace 南岩宫, where I saw the snake and bird facing off. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1585081828129-WO7NMQQXQQ919NEI6VHB/pangu+splits+yinyang.jpg Wudang Taijiquan Rubbing of a Han Dynasty stone carving of Pangu 盘古 splitting heaven, personified as Fu Xi 伏羲 and earth, personified as Nü Wa 女媧 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1586794250951-RUGJUYY7AGH8GL3L50AE/hundun.png Wudang Taijiquan Traditional depiction of Primordial Chaos 混沌, an egg with six legs (yin) and four wings (yang), no head and no tail, completely directionless! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1585083744647-JZ6RDHAOKNW19T26X70T/IMG_5303.jpg Wudang Taijiquan A bronze statue from the Yong Le period 明永乐年间 (1403-1424) of the San Feng sect patriarch Zhang San Feng 张三丰 from a shrine at Purple Cloud Palace 紫霄宫. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1585082959872-WYC5VVN5Q735JLQFHHVS/bd5d2ec68b304389977a6f8d950785c4.jpeg Wudang Taijiquan Master Tang Chong Liang 唐崇亮 in 1984 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1585083083583-NKFBVC8JJ4UBFADFYQKD/Tang+Chong+Liang%27s+Hermitage.jpg Wudang Taijiquan Master Tang’s hermitage near Wudang’s Eight Immortals Temple 八仙观, where he taught Tai Chi 108 to Guo Gaoyi 郭高一 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1589997429887-CUHWIIPKJ40GQCDNQ5D8/Guo+Gao+Yi+Tuishou Wudang Taijiquan Master Guo Gaoyi practicing push hands at Purple Cloud Palace https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1585248759949-AZI9HOTTNS9I27QJEKLL/16986a25cec7476ea96adc3f947200ab.jpeg Wudang Taijiquan Master Zhong 钟云龙 practicing Tai Chi posture Grasping the Sparrow’s Tail 揽雀尾 at Five Dragons Temple 五龙宫 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1584391419949-3KV3VKMN9WBE32N4K5CR/sanfengbirdsnake.jpg Wudang Taijiquan Wall painting entitled “Magpie and snake playfighting” 鹊蛇嬉斗图 from Wudang’s Purple Cloud Palace 紫霄宫 depicting Zhang San Feng’s inspired creation of Tai Chi. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1586793671562-ZBA4FH2897O090JN1F2F/southerncliff.jpg Wudang Taijiquan Southern Cliff Palace 南岩宫, where I saw the snake and bird facing off. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1585081828129-WO7NMQQXQQ919NEI6VHB/pangu+splits+yinyang.jpg Wudang Taijiquan Rubbing of a Han Dynasty stone carving of Pangu 盘古 splitting heaven, personified as Fu Xi 伏羲 and earth, personified as Nü Wa 女媧 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1586794250951-RUGJUYY7AGH8GL3L50AE/hundun.png Wudang Taijiquan Traditional depiction of Primordial Chaos 混沌, an egg with six legs (yin) and four wings (yang), no head and no tail, completely directionless! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1585083744647-JZ6RDHAOKNW19T26X70T/IMG_5303.jpg Wudang Taijiquan A bronze statue from the Yong Le period 明永乐年间 (1403-1424) of the San Feng sect patriarch Zhang San Feng 张三丰 from a shrine at Purple Cloud Palace 紫霄宫. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1585082959872-WYC5VVN5Q735JLQFHHVS/bd5d2ec68b304389977a6f8d950785c4.jpeg Wudang Taijiquan Master Tang Chong Liang 唐崇亮 in 1984 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1585083083583-NKFBVC8JJ4UBFADFYQKD/Tang+Chong+Liang%27s+Hermitage.jpg Wudang Taijiquan Master Tang’s hermitage near Wudang’s Eight Immortals Temple 八仙观, where he taught Tai Chi 108 to Guo Gaoyi 郭高一 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1589997429887-CUHWIIPKJ40GQCDNQ5D8/Guo+Gao+Yi+Tuishou Wudang Taijiquan Master Guo Gaoyi practicing push hands at Purple Cloud Palace https://www.okanaganvalleywudang.com/eight-brocades daily 0.75 2021-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1587057814616-NS44T5SJ98YOV1JBE0R6/master%2Byuan%2Bbaduanjin.jpg Eight Brocades Master Yuan teaching the Seated Eight Brocades in Jade Void Palace 玉虚宫, 2013, demonstrating “Two Hands Embrace Mount Kunlun” 双手抱昆仑 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1585252308945-OSJBEC1H2NETPCJM4XE4/Tao+Hongjing.png Eight Brocades Painting of Tao Hongjing 陶弘景 (456–536 CE), who includes a number of postures from the Eight Brocades in his Record of Cultivating Spirit and Extending Vitality 養性延命錄 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1585252554239-0XFNYVHZ4T5KJ8YPDUJ0/Daoyin+Tu.png Eight Brocades Reconstruction of the silk manuscript of the Diagram of Leading and Pulling Daoyin Tu 导引图 (ca. 168 BCE), discovered at Mawangdui 马王堆 in 1973 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1585252929736-HM9K66MKIZMAGV1RSVN7/unnamed.png Eight Brocades Qigong postures from Cibot’s 1779 article, upper right resembles Eight Brocade posture “both hands support heaven” 双手托天 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1587143762664-L4W04ITZUBAYZGMIMHXX/Pierre-Martial-Cibot.jpg Eight Brocades Portrait of Pierre-Martial Cibot (1727-1780), Jesuit missionary to the court of the Qianlong emperor. He wrote countless essays on everything from Chinese mythology to herbal medicine and qigong https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1585252904640-ZX4XAGHHKGLURQF89D5A/Wudang+Guo+4.jpeg Eight Brocades Further postures from Cibot’s article. The one on the left resembles the Eight Brocade posture “beating the heavenly drum” 鸣天鼓, where you seal your ears with your palms and thump the base of the skull with your index fingers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1585253303289-FQ48RYFGBKZ2K2ZSUQ8O/unnamed+%282%29.png Eight Brocades Pehr Henrik Ling (1766-1839), developed European Gymnastics under the influence of Cibot’s article https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1587147332242-VCE7A8PJ9Y6D2W3AG0AK/l-exercice-a-pekin-en-1988.jpg Eight Brocades Wild times during Qigong fever 气功热, Beijing, 1988 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1587146240691-1B5X9X0ZL6Z0O1GOZNQF/Daoshibdj.jpg Eight Brocades Daoist monk practicing Two Hands Support Heaven to Regulate the Triple Burner 双手托天理三焦 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1587057814616-NS44T5SJ98YOV1JBE0R6/master%2Byuan%2Bbaduanjin.jpg Eight Brocades Master Yuan teaching the Seated Eight Brocades in Jade Void Palace 玉虚宫, 2013, demonstrating “Two Hands Embrace Mount Kunlun” 双手抱昆仑 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1585252308945-OSJBEC1H2NETPCJM4XE4/Tao+Hongjing.png Eight Brocades Painting of Tao Hongjing 陶弘景 (456–536 CE), who includes a number of postures from the Eight Brocades in his Record of Cultivating Spirit and Extending Vitality 養性延命錄 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1585252554239-0XFNYVHZ4T5KJ8YPDUJ0/Daoyin+Tu.png Eight Brocades Reconstruction of the silk manuscript of the Diagram of Leading and Pulling Daoyin Tu 导引图 (ca. 168 BCE), discovered at Mawangdui 马王堆 in 1973 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1585252929736-HM9K66MKIZMAGV1RSVN7/unnamed.png Eight Brocades Qigong postures from Cibot’s 1779 article, upper right resembles Eight Brocade posture “both hands support heaven” 双手托天 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1587143762664-L4W04ITZUBAYZGMIMHXX/Pierre-Martial-Cibot.jpg Eight Brocades Portrait of Pierre-Martial Cibot (1727-1780), Jesuit missionary to the court of the Qianlong emperor. He wrote countless essays on everything from Chinese mythology to herbal medicine and qigong https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1585252904640-ZX4XAGHHKGLURQF89D5A/Wudang+Guo+4.jpeg Eight Brocades Further postures from Cibot’s article. The one on the left resembles the Eight Brocade posture “beating the heavenly drum” 鸣天鼓, where you seal your ears with your palms and thump the base of the skull with your index fingers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1585253303289-FQ48RYFGBKZ2K2ZSUQ8O/unnamed+%282%29.png Eight Brocades Pehr Henrik Ling (1766-1839), developed European Gymnastics under the influence of Cibot’s article https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1587147332242-VCE7A8PJ9Y6D2W3AG0AK/l-exercice-a-pekin-en-1988.jpg Eight Brocades Wild times during Qigong fever 气功热, Beijing, 1988 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1587146240691-1B5X9X0ZL6Z0O1GOZNQF/Daoshibdj.jpg Eight Brocades Daoist monk practicing Two Hands Support Heaven to Regulate the Triple Burner 双手托天理三焦 https://www.okanaganvalleywudang.com/eight-trigrams-palm daily 0.75 2021-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1585595711342-O7HSGA1N0YKYTTFS149Z/Master+Yuan+Bagua Bagua Master Yuan practicing Grinding Palm 推磨掌 from Eight Trigrams Palm 八卦掌 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1585854455307-Z8LS204A2H32Y4U0JY22/Yu+the+Great.png Bagua Yu the Great Controls the Waters 大禹治水圖, Stone rubbing from a Han dynasty tomb. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1588110013731-25SNBZPPBNG6FB03UC4X/Liu%2BChengxi.jpg Bagua Master Liu Chengxi 刘诚喜 (right) with young 25th generation Dragon Gate master Wu Weizi 无为子 in front of the pagoda on Kongtong Mountain 崆峒山 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1586193089044-TE0ZCLVXEJXEGDHEBAZJ/zhu+chengde.jpg Bagua Master Zhu Chengde 朱诚德 practicing the Bagua warmup exercise, Teacup Turning 茶杯转 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1585595711342-O7HSGA1N0YKYTTFS149Z/Master+Yuan+Bagua Bagua Master Yuan practicing Grinding Palm 推磨掌 from Eight Trigrams Palm 八卦掌 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1585854455307-Z8LS204A2H32Y4U0JY22/Yu+the+Great.png Bagua Yu the Great Controls the Waters 大禹治水圖, Stone rubbing from a Han dynasty tomb. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1588110013731-25SNBZPPBNG6FB03UC4X/Liu%2BChengxi.jpg Bagua Master Liu Chengxi 刘诚喜 (right) with young 25th generation Dragon Gate master Wu Weizi 无为子 in front of the pagoda on Kongtong Mountain 崆峒山 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1586193089044-TE0ZCLVXEJXEGDHEBAZJ/zhu+chengde.jpg Bagua Master Zhu Chengde 朱诚德 practicing the Bagua warmup exercise, Teacup Turning 茶杯转 https://www.okanaganvalleywudang.com/wudang-xingyi daily 0.75 2021-01-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1586194901009-G5B06O1IYBUVBRDNU2BS/Master%252BYuan%252BXingyi Xingyi Master Yuan practicing Drilling Fist 钻拳, the water element 水行 from Form and Mind Fist 形意拳 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1589317052070-3N970GFSOYAECN8TNX7O/masterguo.jpg Xingyi Master Guo (right) correcting the reverse santi posture 拗三体式 of his student Zhang Si Yong 张嗣永, 1992. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1589392283549-9EBTS72ZNXE5C0RUKNAK/zhong+and+guo+zixiaogong.jpg Xingyi Master Zhong Yunlong and master Guo Gaoyi 郭高一 on the stairs at Purple Cloud Palace 紫霄宫 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1586222521030-ZG32OEHQ5C03SFCMY08B/%E9%BB%84%E4%B8%87%E7%A5%A5.jpg Xingyi Southern Xingyi master Huang Wan Xiang 黄万祥 practicing Snake Coils its Body 蛇形缠身 from the snake style 蛇形 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1586454709086-YP2929IJ03I13PGJAN0R/shangji.jpg Xingyi Northern Xingyi master Shang Ji 尚济 practicing the wood element crushing fist 崩拳, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1586286282329-QNRALCR1MQGRP602H8QR/yuefei.png Xingyi General Yue Fei 岳飞, historical figure, mythical founder of Xingyiquan. From the painting Four Generals of Zhongxing” 中兴四将 by Southern Song Dynasty artist Liu Songnian 刘松年 (1174–1224) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1586194901009-G5B06O1IYBUVBRDNU2BS/Master%252BYuan%252BXingyi Xingyi Master Yuan practicing Drilling Fist 钻拳, the water element 水行 from Form and Mind Fist 形意拳 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1589317052070-3N970GFSOYAECN8TNX7O/masterguo.jpg Xingyi Master Guo (right) correcting the reverse santi posture 拗三体式 of his student Zhang Si Yong 张嗣永, 1992. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1589392283549-9EBTS72ZNXE5C0RUKNAK/zhong+and+guo+zixiaogong.jpg Xingyi Master Zhong Yunlong and master Guo Gaoyi 郭高一 on the stairs at Purple Cloud Palace 紫霄宫 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1586222521030-ZG32OEHQ5C03SFCMY08B/%E9%BB%84%E4%B8%87%E7%A5%A5.jpg Xingyi Southern Xingyi master Huang Wan Xiang 黄万祥 practicing Snake Coils its Body 蛇形缠身 from the snake style 蛇形 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1586454709086-YP2929IJ03I13PGJAN0R/shangji.jpg Xingyi Northern Xingyi master Shang Ji 尚济 practicing the wood element crushing fist 崩拳, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1586286282329-QNRALCR1MQGRP602H8QR/yuefei.png Xingyi General Yue Fei 岳飞, historical figure, mythical founder of Xingyiquan. From the painting Four Generals of Zhongxing” 中兴四将 by Southern Song Dynasty artist Liu Songnian 刘松年 (1174–1224) https://www.okanaganvalleywudang.com/taiyi-wuxing-quan daily 0.75 2025-05-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1586295465562-MQHZL42FB9I0C7U69EFD/zhong+taiyi.jpg Taiyi Wuxing Quan Master Zhong practicing Rhinoceros Gazes at the Moon 犀牛望月 from the Taiyi Wuxing Fist 太乙五行拳 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1586454419973-9AI1FG3P7B8IILK0BSFA/8331935888.jpg Taiyi Wuxing Quan Photo of Xu Ben Shan 徐本善 (1860-1932), the last Qing Dynasty abbot of Purple Cloud Palace, eighth generation master of the Taiyi Wuxing style https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1586455822003-PGHSR1E399F0NLDUGZC7/Red_Army_2.jpg Taiyi Wuxing Quan General Helong 贺龙 (front row, far right) and the commanders of the Second Red Army 紅二方面軍 at Purple Cloud Palace, 1931 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1586458036177-NST2S3KHR5QZU6FIXWDO/helongzaiwudang.jpg Taiyi Wuxing Quan A comic strip, “stories of the revolution” 革命故事 about Helong’s stay at Purple Cloud Palace. See abbot Xu, famous for his lightness training 轻功 doing a flying kick 飞腿! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1593454418983-QLR5QJMVFRFZ02GOPNRT/timg.jpg Taiyi Wuxing Quan Tong Delun’s 1991 Helong at Wudang Mountain 贺龙在武当山 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1593454598228-H1VKSIZTH8FYBQ77RSPR/He_Long.jpg Taiyi Wuxing Quan Helong as the Vice Premier of the CCP 中华人民共和国国务院副总理 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1593454332305-10U847VOSIJCA7VHSWHX/8d8e607dcd0a481697542d729b85bcda.jpeg Taiyi Wuxing Quan Master Zhao Jianying 赵剑英 (center) with Zhong Yunlong 钟云龙 (just to her left) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1586799989423-FPEUL8PZ4TYSNE1GJBFF/Liu_Yiming.jpg Taiyi Wuxing Quan 4th generation master Liu Yiming (1734-1821), prolific Dragon Gate alchemist. Portrait by painter Tang Lian 唐璉 (1755–1839) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1586800353760-J0FS6S4O55VJQSYGO7NG/yang+lai+wang.jpg Taiyi Wuxing Quan Bronze statue of 6th generation master Yang Laiwang 杨来旺, master of Thunder Rites 雷法, led tons of temple restoration projects around Wudang in the 19th century. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1586295465562-MQHZL42FB9I0C7U69EFD/zhong+taiyi.jpg Taiyi Wuxing Quan Master Zhong practicing Rhinoceros Gazes at the Moon 犀牛望月 from the Taiyi Wuxing Fist 太乙五行拳 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1586454419973-9AI1FG3P7B8IILK0BSFA/8331935888.jpg Taiyi Wuxing Quan Photo of Xu Ben Shan 徐本善 (1860-1932), the last Qing Dynasty abbot of Purple Cloud Palace, eighth generation master of the Taiyi Wuxing style https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1586455822003-PGHSR1E399F0NLDUGZC7/Red_Army_2.jpg Taiyi Wuxing Quan General Helong 贺龙 (front row, far right) and the commanders of the Second Red Army 紅二方面軍 at Purple Cloud Palace, 1931 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1586458036177-NST2S3KHR5QZU6FIXWDO/helongzaiwudang.jpg Taiyi Wuxing Quan A comic strip, “stories of the revolution” 革命故事 about Helong’s stay at Purple Cloud Palace. See abbot Xu, famous for his lightness training 轻功 doing a flying kick 飞腿! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1586811727048-PLRHSRAAK5IFA7WONPSO/taiyi+book.jpg Taiyi Wuxing Quan Jin Zitao’s 1983 Wudang Taiyi Five Elements Fist 武当太乙五行拳, master Jin in the center in the red shirt, Zhao Jianying 赵剑英 center left in the grey sweater, demonstrating Blue Dragon Leaves the Ocean 苍龙出海 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1593454418983-QLR5QJMVFRFZ02GOPNRT/timg.jpg Taiyi Wuxing Quan Tong Delun’s 1991 Helong at Wudang Mountain 贺龙在武当山 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1593454598228-H1VKSIZTH8FYBQ77RSPR/He_Long.jpg Taiyi Wuxing Quan Helong as the Vice Premier of the CCP 中华人民共和国国务院副总理 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1593454332305-10U847VOSIJCA7VHSWHX/8d8e607dcd0a481697542d729b85bcda.jpeg Taiyi Wuxing Quan Master Zhao Jianying 赵剑英 (center) with Zhong Yunlong 钟云龙 (just to her left) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1586811729654-VMNGHMJ7P16UUOXIQ62J/jinzitao.jpeg Taiyi Wuxing Quan Master Jin demonstrating an application of the movement Spotted Deer Collects Mushrooms 花鹿采芝. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1586799989423-FPEUL8PZ4TYSNE1GJBFF/Liu_Yiming.jpg Taiyi Wuxing Quan 4th generation master Liu Yiming (1734-1821), prolific Dragon Gate alchemist. Portrait by painter Tang Lian 唐璉 (1755–1839) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1586800353760-J0FS6S4O55VJQSYGO7NG/yang+lai+wang.jpg Taiyi Wuxing Quan Bronze statue of 6th generation master Yang Laiwang 杨来旺, master of Thunder Rites 雷法, led tons of temple restoration projects around Wudang in the 19th century. https://www.okanaganvalleywudang.com/baji daily 0.75 2021-11-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1586975042925-22DVL9PF08OVKF0SUTBO/bajinanyan.png Baji Picture of me practicing Eight Extremes Fist at Southern Cliff Temple 南岩宫, 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1609988195608-EDEXIIMTXG98FIKZGKVN/Master+Bing+Baji.jpg Baji Master Bing in the Baji posture Horse Stance Pressing Palm 马步推掌 at the Wudang’s Golden Summit 金顶 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1586914152331-M0MSVXXOETORLYNB3B5P/HanHuachen.jpg Baji This friendly looking fellow is Han Hua Chen 韩化臣 (1886-1937), who developed a standardized Baji form for the Guoshu institute in the 1920’s, the form we do in our lineage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1586974308775-TTUJS27ZIL06BXBEV5CA/bajiold.jpg Baji Baji scroll showing the opening movements of our style https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1586975042925-22DVL9PF08OVKF0SUTBO/bajinanyan.png Baji Picture of me practicing Eight Extremes Fist at Southern Cliff Temple 南岩宫, 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1609988195608-EDEXIIMTXG98FIKZGKVN/Master+Bing+Baji.jpg Baji Master Bing in the Baji posture Horse Stance Pressing Palm 马步推掌 at the Wudang’s Golden Summit 金顶 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1586914152331-M0MSVXXOETORLYNB3B5P/HanHuachen.jpg Baji This friendly looking fellow is Han Hua Chen 韩化臣 (1886-1937), who developed a standardized Baji form for the Guoshu institute in the 1920’s, the form we do in our lineage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1586974308775-TTUJS27ZIL06BXBEV5CA/bajiold.jpg Baji Baji scroll showing the opening movements of our style https://www.okanaganvalleywudang.com/wudang-taihe daily 0.75 2023-09-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1589483217392-C1CU25WKUXGN3TWJCIZA/shifutaihe.jpg Wudang Taihequan Master Yuan practicing Taihequan at Yuxu Palace 玉虚宫, embodying the Heavenly Pillar Peak 天柱峰. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1589932139111-VQ440K3OCZSB5J8XAFAI/Wu+Jiao+Peng.jpg Wudang Taihequan 17th generation Dragon Gate master and Tai He practitioner Wu Jiao Peng 伍教鹏 (seated) teaching Xuanwu sect 玄武派 grand master You Xuande 游玄德 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1590518642355-RJTWRIPISFIGPNSBU0HC/taihebook.jpg Wudang Taihequan True Transmission of the Wudang Supreme Harmony Fist (2016) by Yan Bin 阎彬 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1589483217392-C1CU25WKUXGN3TWJCIZA/shifutaihe.jpg Wudang Taihequan Master Yuan practicing Taihequan at Yuxu Palace 玉虚宫, embodying the Heavenly Pillar Peak 天柱峰. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1589932139111-VQ440K3OCZSB5J8XAFAI/Wu+Jiao+Peng.jpg Wudang Taihequan 17th generation Dragon Gate master and Tai He practitioner Wu Jiao Peng 伍教鹏 (seated) teaching Xuanwu sect 玄武派 grand master You Xuande 游玄德 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1590518642355-RJTWRIPISFIGPNSBU0HC/taihebook.jpg Wudang Taihequan True Transmission of the Wudang Supreme Harmony Fist (2016) by Yan Bin 阎彬 https://www.okanaganvalleywudang.com/wudang-monk-spade daily 0.75 2021-07-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1590519942525-FYSY1VWIRCYC42IFSUL7/zhongnan+hermit..jpg Monk Spade A hermit in the Zhongnan mountains 终南山 with his spade. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1590525084804-3LF42C8V9R8AJDROPX4H/monk+spade+head.JPG Monk Spade https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1590525235988-CXX5MM9G24F62NTFU8PC/IMG_5405.jpg Monk Spade https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1590529154090-1VELR5PO0CCEVXHS3P5C/monk%252Bspade.jpg Monk Spade https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1590525811797-WJIUD58SU22MHBXOJ38C/wudang+monk+spade+class.JPG Monk Spade Learning monk spade as a class. Shifu specially ordered 12 stainless steel monk spades from a local blacksmith. Everyone in our class got one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1611503189848-AV9H5Y98YPO4GSU8JQ69/uncle+Wang.JPG Monk Spade Uncle Wang 王志强 practicing near Wudang’s Golden Summit 金顶. He is an absolute beast with this form. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1590524374583-K12CRQ4OF2HSASV3ZL94/simon+monk+spade.jpg Monk Spade Practicing my Slapping 拍铲 technique in Yuxugong, 2011 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1590519942525-FYSY1VWIRCYC42IFSUL7/zhongnan+hermit..jpg Monk Spade A hermit in the Zhongnan mountains 终南山 with his spade. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1590525084804-3LF42C8V9R8AJDROPX4H/monk+spade+head.JPG Monk Spade https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1590525235988-CXX5MM9G24F62NTFU8PC/IMG_5405.jpg Monk Spade https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1590529154090-1VELR5PO0CCEVXHS3P5C/monk%252Bspade.jpg Monk Spade https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1590525811797-WJIUD58SU22MHBXOJ38C/wudang+monk+spade+class.JPG Monk Spade Learning monk spade as a class. Shifu specially ordered 12 stainless steel monk spades from a local blacksmith. Everyone in our class got one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1611503189848-AV9H5Y98YPO4GSU8JQ69/uncle+Wang.JPG Monk Spade Uncle Wang 王志强 practicing near Wudang’s Golden Summit 金顶. He is an absolute beast with this form. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1590524374583-K12CRQ4OF2HSASV3ZL94/simon+monk+spade.jpg Monk Spade Practicing my Slapping 拍铲 technique in Yuxugong, 2011 https://www.okanaganvalleywudang.com/fan daily 0.75 2025-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1617314965432-Z1MLMD1A5EESUXKE3GVA/kuang+changxiu+shanzi.jpg Wudang Fan Master Kuang Changxiu 匡常修 with fan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1617315195132-MZA9V5PE04V6PLNVTEYK/Yan+Feixia.jpg Wudang Fan Yan Feixia 燕飞霞 (1940-2005) holding a weapon unique to the Kongtong lineage called the Magistrate’s Pen 判官笔 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/ca2edf30-d74a-4860-a7f8-02afeb5efad7/team20_633_422_90.jpg Wudang Fan - Make it stand out Me (fourth from right) with other members of the Wudang delegation and some local Kongtong masters. Very cool and little-known Daoist holy mountain, and home to the famous master Guangchengzi 廣成子, teacher of the Yellow Emperor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/97843779-eeac-4e6d-8a7a-0be50d0052cf/wulindahui.jpg Wudang Fan - Make it stand out 2011 Great Meeting of the Martial Forest 武林大会, Jeff 资和 standing behind uncle Jiang 师清 with the Wudang delegation. The guy in the black , to the left of the photo, performed the traditional Kongtong version of this fan as well as a double straight sword form 双剑. He was really good. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1617314965432-Z1MLMD1A5EESUXKE3GVA/kuang+changxiu+shanzi.jpg Wudang Fan Master Kuang Changxiu 匡常修 with fan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1617315195132-MZA9V5PE04V6PLNVTEYK/Yan+Feixia.jpg Wudang Fan Yan Feixia 燕飞霞 (1940-2005) holding a weapon unique to the Kongtong lineage called the Magistrate’s Pen 判官笔 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/ca2edf30-d74a-4860-a7f8-02afeb5efad7/team20_633_422_90.jpg Wudang Fan - Make it stand out Me (fourth from right) with other members of the Wudang delegation and some local Kongtong masters. Very cool and little-known Daoist holy mountain, and home to the famous master Guangchengzi 廣成子, teacher of the Yellow Emperor, who visited me in a dream while we were staying there. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/97843779-eeac-4e6d-8a7a-0be50d0052cf/wulindahui.jpg Wudang Fan - Make it stand out 2011 Great Meeting of the Martial Forest 武林大会, Jeff 资和 standing behind uncle Jiang 师清 with the Wudang delegation. The guy in the black , to the left of the photo, performed the traditional Kongtong version of this fan as well as a double straight sword form 双剑. He was really good. https://www.okanaganvalleywudang.com/taiyi-sword daily 0.75 2020-11-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1604635304481-E69LQTBYUMNPNSYJ9THY/Okanagan%2BWudang%2BGuo%2BGaoyi%2BXuanmen%2BJian.jpg Taiyi Dark Gate Sword Grandmaster Zhong Yunlong 钟云龙 learning Taiyi Sword from Guo Gaoyi 郭高一, early 1980’s https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1605565328143-LJMHNGHY2TSPEBZJQY4O/xmjshifushiye.png Taiyi Dark Gate Sword Grandmaster Zhong 钟云龙 teaching Taiyi sword to our teacher, master Yuan 袁修刚 at Purple Cloud Palace, 1991. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1605566035007-X487X7JRK6JU4QADFERL/1620_50469616941_6273_n.jpg Taiyi Dark Gate Sword Me 资乾 (right) practicing Taiyi Sword partner drills with kung fu brother Jeff 资和 (left) at Purple Cloud Palace, 2008 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1605564645700-RFJ4UIPCBFK6D4IE95JK/Xuanmen+Jian++Manual.png Taiyi Dark Gate Sword Old copy of Yan Dehua’s manual https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1605564251233-Y9CVLWMYEM8JBEHUUXM4/yandehua.jpg Taiyi Dark Gate Sword Portrait of Yan Dehua, author of the 1935 Taiji Dark Gate Sword Manual 太极玄门剑谱 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1604635304481-E69LQTBYUMNPNSYJ9THY/Okanagan%2BWudang%2BGuo%2BGaoyi%2BXuanmen%2BJian.jpg Taiyi Dark Gate Sword Grandmaster Zhong Yunlong 钟云龙 learning Taiyi Sword from Guo Gaoyi 郭高一, early 1980’s https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1605565328143-LJMHNGHY2TSPEBZJQY4O/xmjshifushiye.png Taiyi Dark Gate Sword Grandmaster Zhong 钟云龙 teaching Taiyi sword to our teacher, master Yuan 袁修刚 at Purple Cloud Palace, 1991. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1605566035007-X487X7JRK6JU4QADFERL/1620_50469616941_6273_n.jpg Taiyi Dark Gate Sword Me 资乾 (right) practicing Taiyi Sword partner drills with kung fu brother Jeff 资和 (left) at Purple Cloud Palace, 2008 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1605564645700-RFJ4UIPCBFK6D4IE95JK/Xuanmen+Jian++Manual.png Taiyi Dark Gate Sword Old copy of Yan Dehua’s manual https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1605564251233-Y9CVLWMYEM8JBEHUUXM4/yandehua.jpg Taiyi Dark Gate Sword Portrait of Yan Dehua, author of the 1935 Taiji Dark Gate Sword Manual 太极玄门剑谱 https://www.okanaganvalleywudang.com/simon-bio daily 0.75 2024-11-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1611098803480-PLZTAPVDVY10RUOR3VA1/simon%2Bnanyan.JPG Simon's bio Standing on my feet in Monkey Valley 逍遥谷 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1606945362646-6Y324OB0IVERCHHY8F7J/wudang+headstand.jpg Simon's bio Standing on my head at Purple Cloud Palace 紫霄宫 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1606954557692-3FMEJ4DDHSQFDH0HDSFE/1-130616163241c8.jpeg Simon's bio The novelty of foreign Daoists “外国洋道士” attracted at lot of media attention https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1606956161638-NMFVKEEB41PP72CMTLDM/simon+shifu+spear.jpg Simon's bio I specialized in the spear style from our lineage, the epically titled Yinyang Throat Locking Life Destroying Spear 子午锁喉绝命枪 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1611107400830-3QMX2AITV8HNOD93422Q/P_20190809_115920.jpg Simon's bio Defending my dissertation, A Genealogy of the Subtle Body with my advisors Anne Klein and Jeff Kripal at my PhD defense, August 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/a92a0236-70f1-4f3c-8a39-17cdb81d7f59/the+subtle+body.jpg Simon's bio - Make it stand out My new book, out December 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/8472805c-a33f-475b-952a-0c37bf87bf31/PXL_20240908_0216057901.jpg Simon's bio Very happy being back in Wudang, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1606945362646-6Y324OB0IVERCHHY8F7J/wudang+headstand.jpg Simon's bio Standing on my head at Purple Cloud Palace 紫霄宫 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1606954557692-3FMEJ4DDHSQFDH0HDSFE/1-130616163241c8.jpeg Simon's bio The novelty of foreign Daoists “外国洋道士” attracted at lot of media attention https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1606956161638-NMFVKEEB41PP72CMTLDM/simon+shifu+spear.jpg Simon's bio I specialized in the spear style from our lineage, the epically titled Yinyang Throat Locking Life Destroying Spear 子午锁喉绝命枪 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1611107400830-3QMX2AITV8HNOD93422Q/P_20190809_115920.jpg Simon's bio Defending my dissertation, A Genealogy of the Subtle Body with my advisors Anne Klein and Jeff Kripal at my PhD defense, August 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/a92a0236-70f1-4f3c-8a39-17cdb81d7f59/the+subtle+body.jpg Simon's bio - Make it stand out My new book, out December 2021 https://www.okanaganvalleywudang.com/brandi-bio daily 0.75 2025-08-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1611454620393-1NHTM2PFKFAUJBEWPV1A/Brandi+Splits.JPG Brandi's Bio Practicing my splits 小叉 in the temple https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1611454667791-7N7QB3YUMVQ2RT4G3WLO/Brandi+Dragon.jpg Brandi's Bio Practicing Five Animals Qigong 五行气功, Dragon form 龙行 at the temple https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1611454707404-PHEUOSCKI7BIK4DAGVSN/Brandi+Master+Yuan.jpeg Brandi's Bio Practicing Taiji 28 with Master Yuan in the temple, the movement "“Grasping the Sparrow’s Tail” 揽雀尾 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1611454833152-Y5F6S5KLDWV1OAX8DHUU/Brandi+spear.jpg Brandi's Bio Practicing Yinyang Throat Locking Life Destroying Spear 子午锁喉绝命枪 in the temple https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1611454880321-TYNX5S17F0CLH7SX6FOG/Brandi+Master+Yuan+Wudang+2.jpg Brandi's Bio Having lunch with Master Yuan on my 30th birthday https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1611454620393-1NHTM2PFKFAUJBEWPV1A/Brandi+Splits.JPG Brandi's Bio Practicing my splits 小叉 in the temple https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1611454667791-7N7QB3YUMVQ2RT4G3WLO/Brandi+Dragon.jpg Brandi's Bio Practicing Five Animals Qigong 五行气功, Dragon form 龙行 at the temple https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1611454707404-PHEUOSCKI7BIK4DAGVSN/Brandi+Master+Yuan.jpeg Brandi's Bio Practicing Taiji 28 with Master Yuan in the temple, the movement "“Grasping the Sparrow’s Tail” 揽雀尾 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1611454833152-Y5F6S5KLDWV1OAX8DHUU/Brandi+spear.jpg Brandi's Bio Practicing Yinyang Throat Locking Life Destroying Spear 子午锁喉绝命枪 in the temple https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1611454880321-TYNX5S17F0CLH7SX6FOG/Brandi+Master+Yuan+Wudang+2.jpg Brandi's Bio Having lunch with Master Yuan on my 30th birthday https://www.okanaganvalleywudang.com/eight-immortals daily 0.75 2021-06-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1614705120332-6CAWGXHG55NN25EK5D03/Zhong+Eight+Immortals.jpg Eight Immortals Grandmaster Zhong Yunlong 钟云龙 in the posture Pointing to the Stars and Gazing at the Moon 指星望月 from the Eight Immortals Sword 八仙剑. Purple Cloud Palace 紫霄宫, 1980’s https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1614708738785-A30RAYJJTUECHOX9E78Y/Hunan+Nanyue.jpg Eight Immortals Southern Peak of Hengshan 南岳衡山, where grandmaster Zhong learned the Eight Immortals style from Grandpa Chen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1617302567341-6A7WKEFXF09XOMA6GVET/1_110327100440_1.jpg Eight Immortals Master Yuan in the posture “Raising the Cup to Propose a Toast” 提杯敬酒, a movement from the immortal Lu Dongbin 吕洞宾 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1614725706715-V8LPNNGKIJSB75TU8V96/o0o00054179r0240478.jpg Eight Immortals Master Zhong in the posture Sit and Shake Mountains and Rivers 坐振山河 from Eight Immortals Staff 八仙棍 on the cover of Wudang Magazine 武当杂志 1994. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1614705120332-6CAWGXHG55NN25EK5D03/Zhong+Eight+Immortals.jpg Eight Immortals Grandmaster Zhong Yunlong 钟云龙 in the posture Pointing to the Stars and Gazing at the Moon 指星望月 from the Eight Immortals Sword 八仙剑. Purple Cloud Palace 紫霄宫, 1980’s https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1614708738785-A30RAYJJTUECHOX9E78Y/Hunan+Nanyue.jpg Eight Immortals Southern Peak of Hengshan 南岳衡山, where grandmaster Zhong learned the Eight Immortals style from Grandpa Chen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1617302567341-6A7WKEFXF09XOMA6GVET/1_110327100440_1.jpg Eight Immortals Master Yuan in the posture “Raising the Cup to Propose a Toast” 提杯敬酒, a movement from the immortal Lu Dongbin 吕洞宾 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1614725706715-V8LPNNGKIJSB75TU8V96/o0o00054179r0240478.jpg Eight Immortals Master Zhong in the posture Sit and Shake Mountains and Rivers 坐振山河 from Eight Immortals Staff 八仙棍 on the cover of Wudang Magazine 武当杂志 1994. https://www.okanaganvalleywudang.com/qigong daily 0.75 2023-03-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/af3cb4ac-e026-46b0-b7b0-3a786d322b2b/IMG_8013.jpg Wudang Qigong - Make it stand out Black Dragon Wags its Tail 乌龙摆尾. Brandi 资自 doing the Dragon 龙行 from the Five Animals 五形气功 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/ef4a12c8-80fc-452c-9ccc-a11f96c92559/wudangqigong.jpg Wudang Qigong Master Zhong 钟云龙 doing one of the preparatory stretches from the Tongzi Gong 童子功 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/af3cb4ac-e026-46b0-b7b0-3a786d322b2b/IMG_8013.jpg Wudang Qigong - Make it stand out Black Dragon Wags its Tail 乌龙摆尾. Brandi 资自 doing the Dragon 龙行 from the Five Animals 五形气功 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/ef4a12c8-80fc-452c-9ccc-a11f96c92559/wudangqigong.jpg Wudang Qigong Master Zhong 钟云龙 doing one of the preparatory stretches from the Tongzi Gong 童子功 https://www.okanaganvalleywudang.com/on-the-historical-mystery-of-zhang-sanfeng daily 0.75 2024-04-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1620239090481-30QWEGQZMLWI4N13L8YW/002564baf2bf0f8e1fd41e.jpg On the Historical Mystery of Zhang Sanfeng Ming Dynasty Bronze Statue of Zhang Sanfeng https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1620239321390-V9E786ZTJ3YXWA2YY5YH/SetWidth266-Nagarjuna-800px.png On the Historical Mystery of Zhang Sanfeng Nagarjuna retrieving the Perfection of Wisdom texts from the bottom of the ocean https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1620239845953-4KRG1Z1F0LHZRLPVLUA1/pasted+image+0.png On the Historical Mystery of Zhang Sanfeng Stone Rubbings of stelae featuring Zhang’s dragon style calligraphy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1620241259459-YE1DW6VX7CBL6YCK5TPN/unnamed.png On the Historical Mystery of Zhang Sanfeng Zhang’s calligraphy of a poem by Tang poet Liu Changqing 劉長卿 (709-785) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1585083744647-JZ6RDHAOKNW19T26X70T/IMG_5303.jpg On the Historical Mystery of Zhang Sanfeng Ming statue of Zhang San Feng with his signature cymbal hat from Purple Cloud Palace https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1620241452839-T6FL2RJV3BJRE6CEZ03B/Screenshot+2021-05-05+11.52.19+AM.png On the Historical Mystery of Zhang Sanfeng Old Copy of the 1844 Collected works of Zhang Sanfeng https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1620239090481-30QWEGQZMLWI4N13L8YW/002564baf2bf0f8e1fd41e.jpg On the Historical Mystery of Zhang Sanfeng Ming Dynasty Bronze Statue of Zhang Sanfeng https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1620239321390-V9E786ZTJ3YXWA2YY5YH/SetWidth266-Nagarjuna-800px.png On the Historical Mystery of Zhang Sanfeng Nagarjuna retrieving the Perfection of Wisdom texts from the bottom of the ocean https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1620239845953-4KRG1Z1F0LHZRLPVLUA1/pasted+image+0.png On the Historical Mystery of Zhang Sanfeng Stone Rubbings of stelae featuring Zhang’s dragon style calligraphy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1620241259459-YE1DW6VX7CBL6YCK5TPN/unnamed.png On the Historical Mystery of Zhang Sanfeng Zhang’s calligraphy of a poem by Tang poet Liu Changqing 劉長卿 (709-785) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1585083744647-JZ6RDHAOKNW19T26X70T/IMG_5303.jpg On the Historical Mystery of Zhang Sanfeng Ming statue of Zhang San Feng with his signature cymbal hat from Purple Cloud Palace https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1620241452839-T6FL2RJV3BJRE6CEZ03B/Screenshot+2021-05-05+11.52.19+AM.png On the Historical Mystery of Zhang Sanfeng Old Copy of the 1844 Collected works of Zhang Sanfeng https://www.okanaganvalleywudang.com/snek daily 0.75 2026-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1624203859071-6A3KD6HBPID402F945A2/Gao+Snake+Wudang Snake Fist Snake master Zhang Wen Gao 张文高 in the posture Striking Piercing Fist 击打贯拳. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1623625095701-DO7ETPY0H7M1VZY30KTE/EmeiShanTop.jpg Snake Fist The top of Emeishan 峨眉山, the origin place of Snake style https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1624203859071-6A3KD6HBPID402F945A2/Gao+Snake+Wudang Snake Fist Snake master Zhang Wen Gao 张文高 in the posture Striking Piercing Fist 击打贯拳. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1623625095701-DO7ETPY0H7M1VZY30KTE/EmeiShanTop.jpg Snake Fist The top of Emeishan 峨眉山, the origin place of Snake style https://www.okanaganvalleywudang.com/war-magic daily 0.75 2023-11-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1d83c01f-9471-475a-9261-6de67756b121/10401183_592047395486_961_n.jpg On Babies, The Big Dipper, and Daoist War Magic Shifu balancing a baby in one hand, the most advanced technique in the San Feng lineage. Photo credits to the big and handsome Dave Wei 资容 at Wudang West https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/c7a3da22-381e-4f04-9a3e-8a5e43de5c6d/v2-28bbfd63145ca97493cac0290748dc02_1440w.jpg On Babies, The Big Dipper, and Daoist War Magic The seven Po spirits. These homies live in your lungs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/73353c79-77da-477a-b747-c567354c34f1/99b1a64257d844268664d2b99e7a5880.jpeg On Babies, The Big Dipper, and Daoist War Magic Our class on the stage of I Want to Be on Spring Festival 我要上春晚. That’s me crouching in the middle in Crouching Tiger posture 卧虎式, Brandi off to the left in Lion Plays with the Ball 狮子戏球. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/f2c5aa80-93a9-4131-bf3c-7089afd1004c/image%284%29.png On Babies, The Big Dipper, and Daoist War Magic Master Yuan 袁修刚 (right) as one of the dark stars 暗星 in the Seven Star Battle Array 七星阵 at Purple Cloud Palace 紫霄宫 in the 1990’s https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/c29950ef-cd14-4b21-ade2-77ec6060c557/Untitled.png On Babies, The Big Dipper, and Daoist War Magic - Make it stand out Traditional painting of the Nine Dipper Lords 北斗九星星君 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/50426bbe-dbc2-46d5-9438-be1a98f96fde/qxj.png On Babies, The Big Dipper, and Daoist War Magic - Make it stand out Statue of Qiu Xuanqing 邱玄清 (1327-1393) from a temple in Southern China. Credit to brother Jeff Reid 资和 for pointing out how this statute seems to be practicing the Method of Striking the Bamboo and Shaking the Turtle 敲竹斗龜法 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/69121788-a927-4a44-a198-ca7963272d15/news_21.jpg On Babies, The Big Dipper, and Daoist War Magic - Make it stand out Ming dynasty bridge over the Black Tiger River 黑虎江 between Five Dragons and Purple Cloud https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/01e2f1da-65ea-40a6-bda7-c7463d0c3e97/1609221223542669.jpg On Babies, The Big Dipper, and Daoist War Magic - Make it stand out Yeah. I’m thinking it’s dragon time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/c85808cf-e515-4d38-a727-06a7b73f0387/Screenshot+2022-08-24+2.09.03+PM.png On Babies, The Big Dipper, and Daoist War Magic - Make it stand out If you don’t have dragon goggles you can enter here, through the Diagram of the Auspicious Ghost Dragon 吉鬼龍, from a 1567 of the Great Encyclopedia of Emperor Yong Le 永乐大典. Lifted from Susan Huang’s Picturing the True Form (2012). You are now in the Dragon Zone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/63f5402b-a8e9-423f-93e3-f6881fffe9d3/image+%2814%29.png On Babies, The Big Dipper, and Daoist War Magic - Make it stand out Beijing Theatrical 京劇 rendition of one of the 108 Outlaws of the Marsh, the martial hero Wusong in the pose Striking the Tiger 打虎式 from the 1963 film Wusong 武松. This exact posture is in pretty much every form of Taiji. Who did it first: Daoists, martial artists, or thespians? (Brother, it is a trick question) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/7f597892-e3e7-41cb-9919-7bdabb6a0620/master11_large.jpg On Babies, The Big Dipper, and Daoist War Magic - Make it stand out Master Yuan (middle) as High Priest 高功. He says during this time his main occupation was performing funeral rites for rich people. These rituals involve a lot of movements, ritual sword techniques, and stepping methods that show up in a more virtuosic manner in our martial arts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1d83c01f-9471-475a-9261-6de67756b121/10401183_592047395486_961_n.jpg On Babies, The Big Dipper, and Daoist War Magic Shifu balancing a baby in one hand, the most advanced technique in the San Feng lineage. Photo credits to the big and handsome Dave Wei 资容 at Wudang West https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/c7a3da22-381e-4f04-9a3e-8a5e43de5c6d/v2-28bbfd63145ca97493cac0290748dc02_1440w.jpg On Babies, The Big Dipper, and Daoist War Magic The seven Po spirits. These homies live in your lungs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/73353c79-77da-477a-b747-c567354c34f1/99b1a64257d844268664d2b99e7a5880.jpeg On Babies, The Big Dipper, and Daoist War Magic Our class on the stage of I Want to Be on Spring Festival 我要上春晚. That’s me crouching in the middle in Crouching Tiger posture 卧虎式, Brandi off to the left in Lion Plays with the Ball 狮子戏球. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/f2c5aa80-93a9-4131-bf3c-7089afd1004c/image%284%29.png On Babies, The Big Dipper, and Daoist War Magic Master Yuan 袁修刚 (right) as one of the dark stars 暗星 in the Seven Star Battle Array 七星阵 at Purple Cloud Palace 紫霄宫 in the 1990’s https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/c29950ef-cd14-4b21-ade2-77ec6060c557/Untitled.png On Babies, The Big Dipper, and Daoist War Magic - Make it stand out Traditional painting of the Nine Dipper Lords 北斗九星星君 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/50426bbe-dbc2-46d5-9438-be1a98f96fde/qxj.png On Babies, The Big Dipper, and Daoist War Magic - Make it stand out Statue of Qiu Xuanqing 邱玄清 (1327-1393) from a temple in Southern China. Credit to brother Jeff Reid 资和 for pointing out how this statute seems to be practicing the Method of Striking the Bamboo and Shaking the Turtle 敲竹斗龜法 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/69121788-a927-4a44-a198-ca7963272d15/news_21.jpg On Babies, The Big Dipper, and Daoist War Magic - Make it stand out Ming dynasty bridge over the Black Tiger River 黑虎江 between Five Dragons and Purple Cloud https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/01e2f1da-65ea-40a6-bda7-c7463d0c3e97/1609221223542669.jpg On Babies, The Big Dipper, and Daoist War Magic - Make it stand out Yeah. I’m thinking it’s dragon time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/c85808cf-e515-4d38-a727-06a7b73f0387/Screenshot+2022-08-24+2.09.03+PM.png On Babies, The Big Dipper, and Daoist War Magic - Make it stand out If you don’t have dragon goggles you can enter here, through the Diagram of the Auspicious Ghost Dragon 吉鬼龍, from a 1567 of the Great Encyclopedia of Emperor Yong Le 永乐大典. Lifted from Susan Huang’s Picturing the True Form (2012). You are now in the Dragon Zone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/63f5402b-a8e9-423f-93e3-f6881fffe9d3/image+%2814%29.png On Babies, The Big Dipper, and Daoist War Magic - Make it stand out Beijing Theatrical 京劇 rendition of one of the 108 Outlaws of the Marsh, the martial hero Wusong in the pose Striking the Tiger 打虎式 from the 1963 film Wusong 武松. This exact posture is in pretty much every form of Taiji. Who did it first: Daoists, martial artists, or thespians? (Brother, it is a trick question) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/7f597892-e3e7-41cb-9919-7bdabb6a0620/master11_large.jpg On Babies, The Big Dipper, and Daoist War Magic - Make it stand out Master Yuan (middle) as High Priest 高功. He says during this time his main occupation was performing funeral rites for rich people. These rituals involve a lot of movements, ritual sword techniques, and stepping methods that show up in a more virtuosic manner in our martial arts https://www.okanaganvalleywudang.com/new-page-2 daily 0.75 2022-11-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1611463060945-CWRJG4DZ0HCJB107ZZYW/Bio%2Bpics%2Band%2Bother%2Brandom%2Bthings%2B010.jpg Landing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1611463060945-CWRJG4DZ0HCJB107ZZYW/Bio%2Bpics%2Band%2Bother%2Brandom%2Bthings%2B010.jpg Landing https://www.okanaganvalleywudang.com/new-page-4 daily 0.75 2023-08-01 https://www.okanaganvalleywudang.com/wuqinxi daily 0.75 2023-12-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/f1c8790b-2cee-48f4-8804-b185150afd16/Five+Animal+Frolics+Qigong+Wudang Five Animal Frolics Bird Stretching 鸟伸 from a Ming Dynasty rendition of the Five Animal Frolics, the 17th century Cinnabar Book of Longevity 万寿丹书. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/37b79aac-5bc9-4939-8b06-03c2a24f1805/Chinese_woodcu Five Animal Frolics - Make it stand out Deer Stretching from the same text, an exceedingly interesting compilation of health preservation techniques from Huatuo 华佗, Sunsimiao 孙思邈, and Zhangsanfeng 张三丰, among others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/807a7b58-a2f0-4fa8-8326-38850ccf0141/a15d12bad668486cb9b522e2b649f3a0.jpg Five Animal Frolics Painting of Huatuo 华佗 gathering herbs. His contributions to herbal medicine were also quite remarkable. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/35cda07d-3275-4b42-83c5-38f79fbfa304/16784233136681795_1407x441.jpg Five Animal Frolics - Make it stand out Another classical depiction of the Five Animal Frolics, from right to left: bird, monkey, deer, bear, tiger https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/f1c8790b-2cee-48f4-8804-b185150afd16/Five+Animal+Frolics+Qigong+Wudang Five Animal Frolics Bird Stretching 鸟伸 from a Ming Dynasty rendition of the Five Animal Frolics, the 17th century Cinnabar Book of Longevity 万寿丹书. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/37b79aac-5bc9-4939-8b06-03c2a24f1805/Chinese_woodcu Five Animal Frolics - Make it stand out Deer Stretching from the same text, an exceedingly interesting compilation of health preservation techniques from Huatuo 华佗, Sunsimiao 孙思邈, and Zhangsanfeng 张三丰, among others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/807a7b58-a2f0-4fa8-8326-38850ccf0141/a15d12bad668486cb9b522e2b649f3a0.jpg Five Animal Frolics Painting of Huatuo 华佗 gathering herbs. His contributions to herbal medicine were also quite remarkable. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/35cda07d-3275-4b42-83c5-38f79fbfa304/16784233136681795_1407x441.jpg Five Animal Frolics - Make it stand out Another classical depiction of the Five Animal Frolics, from right to left: bird, monkey, deer, bear, tiger https://www.okanaganvalleywudang.com/our-school daily 0.75 2024-01-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1611098803480-PLZTAPVDVY10RUOR3VA1/simon%2Bnanyan.JPG Our School Standing on my feet in Monkey Valley 逍遥谷 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1606945362646-6Y324OB0IVERCHHY8F7J/wudang+headstand.jpg Our School Standing on my head at Purple Cloud Palace 紫霄宫 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1606954557692-3FMEJ4DDHSQFDH0HDSFE/1-130616163241c8.jpeg Our School The novelty of foreign Daoists “外国洋道士” attracted at lot of media attention https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1606956161638-NMFVKEEB41PP72CMTLDM/simon+shifu+spear.jpg Our School I specialized in the spear style from our lineage, the epically titled Yinyang Throat Locking Life Destroying Spear 子午锁喉绝命枪 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1611107400830-3QMX2AITV8HNOD93422Q/P_20190809_115920.jpg Our School Defending my dissertation, A Genealogy of the Subtle Body with my advisors Anne Klein and Jeff Kripal at my PhD defense, August 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/a92a0236-70f1-4f3c-8a39-17cdb81d7f59/the+subtle+body.jpg Our School - Make it stand out My new book, out December 2021 https://www.okanaganvalleywudang.com/existentialism daily 0.75 2025-09-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/3e6a86db-fb66-45b0-9752-3763ee670aad/Liber_Sinicus_Tao_te_kim_inscriptus.jpg Daoist Existentialism 1721 Jean-François Noëlas Liber Sinicus Tao Te Kin Inscriptus in Latinum idi oma versus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/2cfbb945-2594-41e5-9b39-4f29cf0b633c/DALL%C2%B7E+2025-01-13+12.27.49+-+A+black-and-white+image%2C+reminiscent+of+a+1960s+photograph%2C+showing+the+Daoist+alchemist+Ge+Hong+seated+at+a+small+Parisian+caf%C3%A9+table%2C+wearing+tradit.jpg Daoist Existentialism - Make it stand out Gehong 葛洪 having coffee with Sartre 萨特 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/b13d5211-a137-4b07-be7e-aa754aeb4fc0/220px-Kircher_-_Toonneel_van_China_-_Ricci_and_Guangqi.jpg Daoist Existentialism - Make it stand out Jesuit love for classical Daoist philosophy and disdain for popular Daoist practice powerfully impacted its western reception https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/0fe96987-2dc6-43fa-a7ed-b93c2dd03c11/Liber_Sinicus_Tao_te_kim_inscriptus.jpg Daoist Existentialism 1721 Jean-François Noëlas Liber Sinicus Tao Te Kin Inscriptus in Latinum idi oma versus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/a0e8b953-4716-401a-8103-9babfc7d78be/Northern_Wei_soldier.jpg Daoist Existentialism Terracotta soldier from the Northern Wei Dynasty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/9d5c91ae-6858-49d2-a707-8326cf2d12b8/%E6%80%A7%E5%91%BD%E5%9C%AD%E6%97%A8_%E5%A4%AA%E6%A5%B5%E5%9C%96.png Daoist Existentialism A medieval graphical depiction of the cosmogony sourced in the Daodejing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/213a0abb-fc92-44f2-93c0-f3fcc72ed320/12312.jpg Daoist Existentialism Yinxi Cave 尹喜岩 near the Five Dragons Palace, the place the first “hidden immortal” 隐仙 Yinxi cultivated over 2,000 years ago https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/694dd08b-34b3-426d-b5fd-bd9b380dda22/lsz.jpg Daoist Existentialism - Make it stand out Uncle Liao 廖师住 meditating in grandpa Zhong’s Cloud Dragon Cave 云龙洞 on Five Dragons Peak 五龙顶 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/f5362909-f0e0-429c-8499-82381245dbc1/35f5b4afb1a44fcbbbf2a2a6eaba632e.jpeg Daoist Existentialism - Make it stand out Celestial Immortal Cliff 天仙岩 up near Qiongtai 琼 where a number of our lineage masters cultivated. It’s so inaccessible that only those fully accomplished in the abstention from food practices 辟谷 would cultivate there. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/9792603e-03bc-4079-bce0-36bff7fb46dd/2005-2-7-guang-chengzi.jpg Daoist Existentialism - Make it stand out The Yellow Emperor 黄帝 learning from his master Guangchengzi 广成子 at Kongtong mountain in western China https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/9bca0ea1-282d-4111-8983-ef0d50b89466/Untitled.jpg Daoist Existentialism - Make it stand out Departure of the Winged Ship by Vladimir Kush. He calls his art style metaphorical realism. Maybe that’s the genre we’re in here? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/fd921225-68ee-41a7-b50b-27a09a698348/PXL_20240910_232043069+%281%29.jpg Daoist Existentialism - Make it stand out Hanging out near Nanyan 南岩. When you peer into the lush vegetation covering the treacherous cliffs engulfed in mist you can momentarily catch a certain feeling mentioned in the morning prayers, sacred mist swallows the mountains and hills 山岳吞烟. So much of Wudang has been coded over with culture, the wonderful incense and incredible temple complexes built to follow the fengshui, the contours of the mountains. It is easy to miss natural wildness and beauty that originally attracted the hermits. Strip away the millennia of culture and language and you will find Wudang is wild and inhuman. In Chinese they call it ling 靈. 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Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/08d69cf4-0371-4786-88da-6761e6a6a0c7/%E9%83%AD%E9%AB%98%E4%B8%80%E9%81%93%E9%95%BF.jpg Meditation Workshop - Make it stand out Master Guo sitting in stillness (jingzuo 静坐) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/3e52ef9c-66d0-473c-8f99-59c30e9bb6a0/20260101_160609.jpeg Meditation Workshop - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/08d69cf4-0371-4786-88da-6761e6a6a0c7/%E9%83%AD%E9%AB%98%E4%B8%80%E9%81%93%E9%95%BF.jpg Meditation Workshop - Make it stand out Master Guo sitting in stillness (jingzuo 静坐) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/5db886a6-8c72-49e5-854d-a2a809be340c/radiatemeditate.jpg Meditation Workshop https://www.okanaganvalleywudang.com/home daily 1.0 2026-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/7624be3c-8a0a-4f4d-a148-d445f5a0c14c/unnamed%2B%287%29.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/e50cf658-61e1-4e4b-9298-89019be9979f/unnamed+%2813%29.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/9bf3d655-d906-453d-896a-d25ce8a0e51f/unnamed+%2814%29.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/3e52ef9c-66d0-473c-8f99-59c30e9bb6a0/20260101_160609.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/36105ab5-d171-492a-99dc-165340907e2d/_DSC41902.JPG Home - 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Make it stand out Putting the basic sword blocks on the line! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/6a7f2a8d-4795-4ea1-bcdd-41942dcf32c0/PXL_20231118_005603302.NIGHT.jpg Summer Retreat 2026 Night sky from the front door of our Yurt. Those lights in the distance are Summerland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/51aec01e-642b-44e2-b36f-aa19304cbe0a/PXL_20240707_224028365.PORTRAIT.jpg Summer Retreat 2026 - Make it stand out Basics drills in the forest https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/605a7d4d-71c2-48ac-9fda-8c3e33a5da38/20250706_082530.jpg Summer Retreat 2026 - Make it stand out lunchtime! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/3214ccc2-ef97-4ee3-8557-fe133cda1f02/20250706_074014%280%29.jpg Summer Retreat 2026 - Make it stand out Five Animals Qigong on the hill https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/83dfd145-3cdd-4e92-9e33-a619c737ffde/moms+cooking Summer Retreat 2026 - Food Mediterranean lunch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/6082b026-bee3-40e1-a7f5-c17958ea81e7/PXL_20240706_174055299.jpg Summer Retreat 2026 - Make it stand out Wuji posture https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/d80f721e-d7fb-4a27-a4d7-05018a6bc92a/PXL_20240706_141747037.jpg Summer Retreat 2026 - Make it stand out Morning qigong https://www.okanaganvalleywudang.com/zzzz daily 0.75 2026-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1611504895146-MFWE56CT31NXEAGUW8CW/zzzz.jpg Sleep Alchemy - Make it stand out Grandpa Napitating https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/407833e6-2718-4017-a35a-75a6aaca53cf/Romania1.jpg Sleep Alchemy - Make it stand out Master Yuan in seated meditation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/36d9096e-18bd-43cf-b056-1d73b614ac58/2515134.png Sleep Alchemy - Make it stand out Chentuan paying a visit to his five organs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/49fbfa0f-17a7-4ab2-97e2-c101e43c8b7d/zw2.jpg Sleep Alchemy - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/563ba0f7-0217-47f8-ac0e-da19a49a20ad/63d0f703918fa0ece8cb2ff0b85e6ae93c6ddb14.jpg Sleep Alchemy - Make it stand out Old wooden statue of Zhenwu sleeping with the dragon, up at Nanyan, 太子卧龙床 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/36213a87-a3ac-4602-b1bc-d75df1246d6d/zw1.jpg Sleep Alchemy - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/9d5f044f-65e4-4cf0-936e-2958b31ec8e0/1024px-Dschuang-Dsi-Schmetterlingstraum-Zhuangzi-Butterfly-Dream.jpg Sleep Alchemy - Make it stand out Zhuangzi Dreaming of being a butterfly, or vice versa? It’s really not very clear. 庄周梦蝶 https://www.okanaganvalleywudang.com/zzzz-1 daily 0.75 2026-01-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/1611504895146-MFWE56CT31NXEAGUW8CW/zzzz.jpg Sleep Alchemy (Copy) - Make it stand out Grandpa Napitating https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/407833e6-2718-4017-a35a-75a6aaca53cf/Romania1.jpg Sleep Alchemy (Copy) - Make it stand out Master Yuan in seated meditation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/36d9096e-18bd-43cf-b056-1d73b614ac58/2515134.png Sleep Alchemy (Copy) - Make it stand out Chentuan paying a visit to his five organs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/49fbfa0f-17a7-4ab2-97e2-c101e43c8b7d/zw2.jpg Sleep Alchemy (Copy) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/563ba0f7-0217-47f8-ac0e-da19a49a20ad/63d0f703918fa0ece8cb2ff0b85e6ae93c6ddb14.jpg Sleep Alchemy (Copy) - Make it stand out Old wooden statue of Zhenwu sleeping with the dragon, up at Nanyan, 太子卧龙床 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/36213a87-a3ac-4602-b1bc-d75df1246d6d/zw1.jpg Sleep Alchemy (Copy) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df680ce88a9697f28868292/9d5f044f-65e4-4cf0-936e-2958b31ec8e0/1024px-Dschuang-Dsi-Schmetterlingstraum-Zhuangzi-Butterfly-Dream.jpg Sleep Alchemy (Copy) - Make it stand out Zhuangzi Dreaming of being a butterfly, or vice versa? 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