Zhongxian Wu's Bio

Zhongxian Wu is the recognized master of multiple lineages of Chinese shamanic Qigong, Taiji and martial arts. He is the author of Vital Breath of the Dao— Chinese Shamanic Tiger Qigong. He synthesizes wisdom and experience for beginning and advanced practitioners, as well as patients seeking healing, in his unique and professionally designed courses and workshops.

Wu was born on China’s eastern shore in the city of Wenling in Zhejiang Province, where the sun’s rays first touch the Chinese mainland. He began practicing Qigong and Taiji at an early age. Inspired by the immediate strengthening effects of this practice, Wu committed himself to the life-long pursuit of the ancient arts of internal cultivation. He devoted himself to the study of Qigong, martial arts, Chinese medicine, Yijing science, Chinese calligraphy, and ancient Chinese music over the next thirty years, studying with some of the best teachers in these fields.

In China, Wu served as Director of the Shanxi Province Association for Somatic Science and the Shaanxi Association for the Research of Daoist Nourishing Life Practices. In this capacity, he conducted many investigations into the clinical efficacy of Qigong and authored numerous works on the philosophical and historical foundations of China’s ancient life sciences. Since he began teaching in 1988, Master Wu has instructed thousands of Qigong students, Eastern and Western.

In 2001, Wu left his job in Xi’an, China, as an engineer to come to the United States to teach. For four years he served as Senior Instructor and Resident Expert of Qigong and Taiji in the Dept. of Classical Chinese Medicine at the National College of Naturopathic Medicine (NCNM) in Portland, Oregon. In addition to his work at NCNM, Wu was a sub-investigator in a Qigong research program sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the USA.

Currently, Wu presents trainings and workshops for professionals and the general public on topics related to the classical Chinese arts and inner cultivation. He is committed to bringing the authentic teachings of Chinese ancient wisdom tradition such as Qigong, Taiji, martial arts, calligraphy, Chinese astrology, and Yijing science to his students.