Wudang Taichi 9 Forms - Jackie Zhang Fan Shimu

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Our teacher Zhang Fan Shifu on Wudang Mountain demonstrating the Tai Chi form called 9 forms that we learned last year. Join us this year as we go back and learn another form amerced in the magical energy of the Taoist Wudang Mountains.

The trip is all-inclusive. A 13 day adventure to the other side of the world where all accommodations, meals, and inter-Asian travel will be booked for you as you learn from the most prestigious spiritual leaders in the Eastern World.

Trip Outline

Monday, 1st Day– Arrive in Beijing, China. You will be picked up from the airport and taken to the hotel where we will all meet and greet and sleep our first night in China getting ever so close to Wudang Mountain.

Tuesday, 2nd Day – A morning tour of the amazing Forbidden City in Beijing, the home to 24 of China’s past Emperors. A scrumptious lunch and then a tour of Beijing’s famous Fujiwang Street where we will sight see and in case you forgot to bring something from home for the trip you will be most likely be able to buy it here! We will then return to the hotel for a good nights sleep.

Wednesday, 3rd Day – Shuttled to the airport in the early morning we fly two hours to Xiangyang, China close to where Wudang Mountain is located. A bus will then bring us to Wudang Mountain, and as the bus gets closer you will begin to feel closer to finding your Tao.

Wednesday, 4th and 5th Day – Now that our outward journey has begun, we will begin a two-day inner journey where we will visit different areas on the mountain with periods of meditation and Taoist practice:

Tai Chi at the Purple Cloud Palace – the absolute center of Taoism
Qigong at the South Cliff Temple – the place where Taoism was founded
Journey to the Golden Hall on Tianzhu Peak – the tallest peak in the mountains
Taoist Tea Ceremony
Sitting meditation as well as Taoist walking meditation.
Visit and spend time with wild mountain monkeys
Taoist Forest Walks
Surprise visit with someone very special on the mountain

Tuesday, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, Day – We check into the Wudang accommodations – Close to the School of Internal Martial Arts and right next door to the Purple Heaven Palace Temple. For the next five days, we will be learning Tai Chi, Qigong, Taoist philosophy and meditation from the Chinese Taoist Masters

Thursday, 11th Day – Evening flight back to Beijing

Friday, 12th Day – Tour. learn and walk on the world famous Great Wall of China

Saturday, November 13th – Talk about what we have learned and our experiences and then prepare to fly back home.


Terry J. Hodgkinson is founder and master educator at Chung Fu Martial Arts Meditation School as well as Tao Travel - Journeys that Enlighten the Soul, international retreats.
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