Podcasts about wudang

In this episode I am joined by Johan Hausen, Taoist teacher, translator, Chinese medicine practitioner, and founder of Purple Cloud Press. Johan shares his life story from years of competitive Tae Kwon Do, through his travels and travails in China in search of a master, and to his eventual training and discipleship in the Wu Dang mountains. Johan reflects on his years learning Classical and spoken Chinese, considers the challenges of translating ancient literature for modern readers, and reveals the unique metaphors and analogies used in textual descriptions of Internal Alchemy. Johan also describes the Taoist quest for immortality, explains his research into the dantien and the mineralogy of cinnabar, and recounts stories of his own encounters with spiritually advanced beings. … Also available on Youtube, iTunes, & Spotify – search ‘Guru Viking Podcast'. ... Topics Include: 00:00 - Intro 00:57 - Admiration for Mattias Daly 02:56 - Learning Chinese to better learn Taoism 04:53 - How Johan learned Classical vs Spoken Chinese 08:11 - Language is about communication 08:47 - Should we consult living masters about textual translation problems? 10:24 - Metaphors and analogies used in Internal Alchemy 12:53 - Why are there different ideas about the dantian? 14:12 - Is the dantian constructed or inherent? 16:12 - Elixir fields? 17:37 - Johan's research on the mineralogy of cinnabar using Chinese texts 18:04 - The old alchemists' surprisingly good understanding of organic chemistry 20:56 - Johan's childhood and training in Tae Kwon Do 22:47 - Johan's competitive Tae Kwon Do career of over 100 fights 25:18 - Injury and travel to China for healing 26:24 - Travelling to China at 20 years old to train Shaolin kung fu 28:48 0 Training methods of Shaolin kung fu 30:35 - Demystifying the myths of Shaolin training 33:08 - Recovery routine 34:26 - Illness and leaving China 36:15 - Returning to Germany and feelings of failure 37:47 - Leaving a film course in London to train in the Wu Dang mountains 40:32 - Meeting Li Shifu at the Five Immortals Temple 41:54 - Curriculum at the Five Immortals Temple 43:08 - Studying acupuncture and dedication to learning 44:19 - Years of study under Li Shifu and joining the lineage 47:26 - Struggles with being treated as a foreigner in China 50:50 - Growing resentment and leaving China 55:26 - Johan's Dragon Gate Lineage 56:28 - The quest for immortality 58:53 - Details about Taoist Immortals 01:00:34 - Difficulty of becoming an Immortal 01:02:10 - Consolation prize if you fail to achieve immortality 01:03:38 - Ethical rules of the Dragon Gate Lineage 01:04:59 - A typical daily practice routine 01:06:47 - Singing the scriptures to communicate to spirits 01:09:26 - Taoist patron spirit of Wudang 01:14:45 - The remarkable qualities of Li Shifu 01:15:52 - Praise is bad in traditional Chinese teaching 01:17:05 - Is Li Shifu an Immortal? 01:18:02 - Johan's reverence for his teacher 01:19:29 - Explaining culture clashes to Lif Shifu 01:20:33 - Is charisma and spiritual power inherent or cultivated? 01:24:45 - Li Shifu does not have attained disciples 01:26:05 - Is it really possible to achieve success in Taoism, or is it mostly just natural talent? 01:33:11 - Using gifted practitioners as inspiration 01:34:18 - Purple Cloud Press 01:35:56 - Johan's goal to create community and preserve texts 01:37:09 - Search for location and funds
 To find out more about Johan Hausen, visit: - https://purplecloudinstitute.com/about-us/who-we-are-2/ … For more interviews, videos, and more visit. - www.guruviking.com … Music ‘Deva Dasi' by Steve James

PJ Pereira schools us on the best AI tools for CMOs and overcoming AI anxiety.   PJ Pereira is an industry legend whose success is fueled by creatively embracing eras of extreme innovation. Starting his career when the internet was in its infancy, he has conquered the digital age of marketing and is setting his sights on taming the AI giant in the room. His third agency, Silverside AI, has already solved creative problems for some of the biggest brands in the world using AI. Most of all, PJ is fiercely passionate about helping creatives facing AI anxiety head-on by retooling their skillsets for the next generation of advertising.   Must-hear moments for this episode include: How a CMO can avoid paralysis when integrating AI into their business, why the future of big ideas is actually small ideas, and why ad professionals need to embrace AI or risk losing relevance.   What you'll learn in this episode:  How agency and in-house creative teams can work together Why an underdog mindset wins more Cannes Lions The one time a Cannes Lion jury got it wrong How a CMO can implement AI into their operations ASAP Where the ad industry is headed in the next five years What AI for agencies looks like PJ's reaction to the Coca-Cola AI-generated campaign backlash Why the industry must embrace AI-driven creative to survive How industry professionals can overcome their AI anxiety PJ's incredible story of overcoming his first 6 months in America  Resources:   Learn more about Silverside AI on their website See Silverside's AI Coca-Cola campaign  Get a copy of PJ's latest novel, The Girl from Wudang, on Amazon Connect with PJ on LinkedIn  

American-born Jake Pinnick has great passion for Wudang martial arts and the wisdom of Daoism. He has also been exploring the art of traditional Chinese flute called dongxiao, among other instruments, as a means of self-cultivation.

Welcome to another episode of If I Ruled the World, where I ask my guests what they would do if they ruled the world! In today's episode, we delve into the heart of personal and planetary transformation with George Thompson. A system change practitioner, filmmaker, Tai Chi teacher, and a communicator of Daoist philosophy, George shares his profound journey from the Wudang mountains of China back to the heart of modern civilisation, exploring how ancient wisdom can guide us through today's challenges.Episode Highlights:The Interconnection of All Beings:George begins by reflecting on the interconnected intelligence of all beings—how nature's quiet wisdom reminds us of our deep ties to the world around us and within us.System Change Through Personal Transformation:Detailing his path through personal crises to finding resilience in Taoist practices, George explains how individual transformation is inseparably linked to broader societal change.Insight, Practice, Community:The mantra that has shaped George's approach—gaining insights through deep reflection, maintaining growth through consistent practice, and building resilience within a supportive community.Economic Reflections:A surprise revelation from George about his background in economics leads to a deep dive into the flaws of our current economic system and the potential for a new paradigm based on real growth—emotional, community, and ecological rather than mere GDP.A big thank you to our wonderful sponsors Triodos Bank UK for making this podcast happen, and to The Wildlife Trusts for their continued support.Follow the show:You can follow ‘If I Ruled the World' on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or your preferred platform of choice.Connect with our guest:George ThompsonFollow Gillian:InstagramWebsiteMentions & ResourcesLoosing Yourself (George's new film)Dacher Keltner - BooksThe More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible - Charles EisensteinLess is More - Jason Hickel

La renuncia y la mortificación pueden enmarcarse en un cuadro oriental de enorme belleza. En los templos, los palacios de Pekín, el desierto de Gobi o los bosques de bambú levitan, luchan y se aman las leyendas mágicas de Tigre y Dragón, ideadas por el escritor chino Wang Du Lu en uno de los cinco libros de su pentalogía de hierro. Espiritualidad, tradición, taoísmo y mitologías de la China soñada por el taiwanés Ang Lee. Lee transgrede el género Wuxia tradicional situando en el centro a tres mujeres fascinantes, Shu Lien -Michelle Yeoh-, la experta en artes marciales, la joven rebelde Jen -Zhang Ziyi-, una muchacha valiente y guerrera, capaz de lo que sea por recuperar su peine de jade y su espada mágica, y la zorra de Jade, la mentora de las sombras interpretada con grandeza por Cheng Pei Pei. El peso del film lo llevan estas heroínas. La presencia de estas mujeres aporta emociones más fuertes que la mera violencia de un film clásico de artes marciales. Con alguna salvedad, la zorra de Jade no entiende de sentimentalismos y, en una de las primeras peleas le clava en medio de la frente un cuchillo de cuerno de ciervo a un inspector de policía. Esas peleas de artes marciales coreografiadas por el especialista Yuen Wo-Ping, impresionaron al público en su primera proyección en Cannes, los contrincantes flotaban sobre los tejados del palacio, sobre los árboles de bambú, volaban como los personajes de Bola de Dragón. Aplaudían en las salas con júbilo mientras Jen y Jade Fox se elevaban en la noche, o el maestro Li Mu Bai – Chow Yun-Fat- animaba a la taimada ladrona de su espada a ser su discípula. Desde una perspectiva occidental Lee conectó con el gran público, reinventó el género Wuxia con una narrativa lineal y un flashback a la mitad del film que ralentiza el ritmo y desvela la historia de amor de los dos jóvenes, el ritual de acercamiento y distancia del tigre agazapado y el dragón escondido. En este melodrama de rojos manchúes, nubes inmensas y verdes montañas, la otra pareja, Li Mu Bai y Shi Lien, se juran amor eterno, el amor más intenso y doliente, el no consumado. Mu Bai afirma que lo tangible no es permanente. Del mismo modo que en “El banquete de boda”, “Sentido y Sensibilidad”, “La tormenta de hielo”, “La vida de Pi” o cualquiera de sus películas, la renuncia, la represión de los sentimientos, y la falta de entendimiento lastran la existencia de mayores y jóvenes. Esta noche entramos en el templo Wudang para conocer el camino… Chari Medina, Salvador Limón, Raúl Gallego y Zacarías Cotán

My guest for the latest episode of The Tai Chi Notebook Podcast is Tina Faulkner Elders, chief instructor of the RuYi School of Taijiquan and Qigong in Aberdeenshire. We talk about Tina's training in qigong, first with her father, then in Beijing, China, and then on Wudang mountain itself, the legendary home of Taoism. Links: RuYi School of Taijiquan and Qigong https://ruyischool.com/ Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/RuyiAberdeenshire/ Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsfluLjYWYdD7T8HhJ7BZOQ The Tai Chi Notebook http://thetaichinotebook.com

During the holidays, many people on the Chinese mainland head to one of eight special mountains. Perhaps the best know are the four Buddhist mountains, like Huangshan and Emei Shan. Not to be neglected are their siblings, the four Taoist mountains. In today's lesson, learn all about one of these very special travel destinations. Who knows - we might even bump into the RZA on the chair lift... Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/1319

Die 5 Übungen des Wudang Qi Gong sind ein komplettes, in sich geschlossenes Übungssystem. Du brauchst nicht mehr. Wirklich nicht. Aaaber es gibt durchaus ein nächstes Kapitel in deiner Qi Gong Karriere - lass dich heute spoilern!

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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Tai Chi Notebook podcast! My guest today is Simon Cox, who co runs the Okanagan Valley Wudang (https://www.okanaganvalleywudang.com/) with his wife Brandi in Penticton, British Columbia. Simon and Brandi spent six years living and training in China under master Yuan Xiu Gang at the Wudang Daoist Traditional Kung Fu Academy. While there they studied Kung Fu, Tai Chi, Qi Gong, meditation, herbal medicine, Daoist music, and ancient and modern Chinese language.  After returning to the West, they started a Kung Fu school and community group in Houston Texas, where Simon was working on his PhD in Chinese and Tibetan mysticism at Rice University. At the end of 2019, they moved up to the Okanagan Valley and began sharing Wudang teachings with the local community. What I really wanted to get at with Simon was an elucidation on his article about Zhang Sanfeng - exactly who was this mysterious Taoist immortal who is often credited as the founder of Tai Chi Chuan? I also wanted to find out more about Wudang mountain, and where its martial arts really come from. Enjoy the episode! You can find out more about The Tai Chi Notebook here: www.thetaichinotebook.com Facebook.com/taichinotebook Instagram.com/thetaichinotebook ---- Okanagan Valley Wudang www.okanaganvalleywudang.com

What happens if you used ChatGPT to produce books, and are writers an obsolete job now with the rise of Generative AI?On this week's episode, we welcome PJ Caldas, founder and creative chairman at Pereira and O'Dell, and best-selling author, to hear about his experiences using AI to produce his latest book, “The Girl from Wudang”. He shares the specifics of where he split the work with AI, his thoughts on machine learning being a trendsetter, and his insight on how one can constructively use AI to boost creativity.PJ Caldas (also known as PJ Pereira) is an advertising and entertainment pioneer. He believes agencies must provide return not only for brands, but for the time consumers spend with the work. That balance is the ultimate challenge marketers face today. PJ's credentials in content, digital, and advertising have made him one of the industry's most influential and respected creatives. He has been named to Adweek's Creative 100 as Top CCO, Ad Age's Creativity 50, and to the 4A's 100 People Who Make Advertising Great. Most recently PJ was named jury president of the inaugural AI discipline at 2023 ADC Awards. In 2023, PJ will release a book (his 5th) about the unlikely combination of Artificial Intelligence and kung fu. Caldas is particularly drawn to the concept of an AI's influence in design and creativity, and he tries to engage this emerging tech in his own creative process whenever possible.Timestamps:00:00:00 Intro00:02:06 About PJ's upcoming book “The Girl from Wudang”00:05:51 Uses of AI in production00:10:00 Small players have big storytelling opportunities through AI00:12:41 If Photoshop is a bicycle, AI is a horse00:16:03 Visuals v. Writing by AI00:21:13 The best brainstorming partner00:23:01 Machine learning is no different from devaluation of art00:24:10 Own your writing and make it yours00:25:55 Play with the audience's expectations and emotions00:27:54 Three takeaways◆Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/reiinamoto/◆Twitterhttps://twitter.com/reiinamotoSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode 24: Tai Chi and Taoism on Wudang Mountain with George Thompson George Thompson is a film maker and Tai Chi teacher who studied on Wudang Mountain in China under Master Gu. His videos at https://www.youtube.com/@George-Thompson have been watched by over 15 million people and has over 200K subscribers. He runs the Wayfinder Academy at https://www.wayfinder.academy through which he teaches online courses for balanced living. In this episode I ask George what it is like to live and train Tai Chi on Wudang Mountain, what Wudang Tai Chi is like and what lessons he's learned from Taoism. You too can learn from George's teacher, Master Gu, 15th generation of Wudang Sanfeng Pai of Wudang mountain via his online learning site at https://www.taoistwellness.online/ Click on the 7 day trial option, then use the coupon code TAICHINOTEBOOK when you sign up and you'll get a lifetime 8% discount. That's equivalent to one free month a year! You can get a similar discount from George's website https://www.wayfinder.academy/ using the same discount code TAICHINOTEBOOK when you sign up. Social: https://www.instagram.com/thetaichinotebook/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/taichinotebook/ Web: https://thetaichinotebook.com/

This is our first episode in English (intro is in Spanish) / Este es nuestro primer episodio en inglés (con introducción en español).ENGLISH:He is the founder of Pereira O'Dell San Francisco and NY. Winner of an Emmy, bestselling author, and recipient of several Cannes Lions Grand Prix awards, he has become one of the world's most influential and respected creatives. A Brazilian who worked as an interactive creative director at DM9DDB, he was also a co-founder of AgenciaClick.That night we talked about his novel, "The Girl from Wudang" about immortality, martial arts, and artificial intelligence.By the way, Artificial Intelligence, his obsession for several years, was the common thread of the evening. We discussed the implications of this new tool that, for the first time, contributes to the creative process. We then went behind the scenes of "The Beauty Inside," the triple winner of the Cannes Grand Prix for Intel and Toshiba, and how this great idea came to be. We also discussed the creative process behind ADC101+1, the Digital Immersive Experience he created to celebrate The Art Director's Club, inviting 101 Art Directors to co-create with AI.We ended our conversation by discussing narrative as a fundamental tool to unite us as human beings and even about the role of mixed martial arts as a way of human expression where competition is essential.ESPAÑOL:El es fundador de Pereira O`Dell San Francisco and NY. Ganador de un Emmy, escritor de bestseller y merecedor de varios Grand Prix de Cannes Lions. Se ha convertido en uno de los creativos más influyentes y respetados del mundo. Un brasileño que trabajó como director creativo interactivo de DM9DDB, fue cofundador de AgenciaClick.Esa noche hablamos de su primera novela, “The Girl from Wudang” una historia sobre la inmortalidad, las artes marciales y la inteligencia artificial. De hecho, la Inteligencia Artificial, que ha sido su obsesión desde hace varios años, fue el hilo conductor de una noche, en la que platicamos sobre las implicaciones de esta nueva herramienta que por primera vez aporta al proceso creativo. Seguimos con el behind the scenes de “The Beauty Inside” la triple ganadora del Gran Premio de Cannes para Intel y Toshiba y cómo nació esta gran idea. Pasamos por el proceso creativo detrás de ADC101+1, la experiencia Inmersiva Digital que creó para celebrar The Art Director´s Club invitando a 101 Directores de Arte a co-crear con IA.Finalizamos hablando de la narrativa como herramienta fundamental para unirnos entre los seres humanos y hasta del papel de las artes marciales mixtas como una manera de expresión del ser humano en el que la competencia nos resulta algo fundamental y necesario.Visítanos en https://www.elmartinez.net/ y suscríbete en Spotify, Apple Podcasts o donde lo estés oyendo ahora. Síguenos en FB o IG @elmartinezpodcast.Visit us at https://www.elmartinez.net/ and subscribe on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you are listening now. Follow us on FB or IG @elmartinezpodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"Et le monde vint à Førde…". C'est en 1990 qu'Hilde Bjørkum crée le festival de Førde ou Førde Folk Music Festival, petite ville de 12 000 habitants, à l'ouest de la Norvège. Voir RFI Vidéos, carte postale norvégienne. ⇒ Førde Folk Music Festival Le thème de l'édition 2022 : la musique en temps de crise. Et ce sont 3 formations ukrainiennes qui ouvrent l'édition avec une émotion palpable : Marina Sadovska, Drevo & Dyvyna. C'est au bar de l'hôtel que nous croisons Svitlana Metvedieva, une des chanteuses ukrainiennes du groupe Dyvyna. Elle vit en Allemagne depuis le mois de mars (la guerre). Pas loin, la chanteuse iranienne Aida Nosrat se rapproche. L'Ukraine et l'Iran unissent alors leurs cordes vocales. Impro. Et entrevue. Puis nous croisons le groupe Atine avant leur concert. Atine est la rencontre inédite de cinq musiciennes, Aïda Nosrat, Sogol Mirzaei, Christine Zayed, Marie-Suzanne de Loye et Saghar Khadem, a donné naissance à un corpus de chansons iraniennes réarrangées, symbole de l'héritage de leurs trajectoires personnelles et riches de diversité : musique traditionnelle iranienne, arabe, flamenco, jazz et baroque. Le tar, le qanun, la voix, la viole de gambe et les percussions sont ici réunis pour faire résonner la poésie persane du XIXème siècle, mais aussi des compositions inédites. Puis, nous avons rendez-vous avec Sona Jobarteh au bord du fleuve, au café cardamone à Forde. L'artiste anglo-gambienne raconte son enfance dans une famille de griot, sa détermination à jouer de la kora en professionnelles, l'Académie qu'elle a créée en Gambie en 2015. Et la sortie probable d'un nouvel album 10 ans après Fasiya… Puis, nous recevons Hallgrim Hansegård et le musicien sami et chanteur de joik Torgeir Vassvik pour le projet Leahkit, une rencontre musicale fascinante entre le fondateur de la compagnie de danse Frikar et le monde sami (voir vidéo de RFI Vidéos Leahkit). Torgeir, petit-fils de guérisseurs, vient du grand nord de la Norvège. Il habite Oslo. Son chant, ses pratiques rappellent chamanisme sibérien / vision animiste du monde, où tout est connecté, tout est vivant. Tous les choix que l'on fait ont des conséquences. De son côté, Hallgrim est en recherche permanente de tout ce qui fait l'histoire de la danse norvégienne. Il a passé quelques mois dans un monastère dans les montagnes du Wudang en Chine pour une approche plus intérieure de la danse. Et puisque les artistes dialoguent avec l'invisible, c'est tout naturellement que nous avons rejoint le chanteur, danseur et prêtre vaudou haïtien Erol Josue (voir vidéo de RFI Vidéos Leahkit + Erol Josué). Pour RFI Vidéos, le trio nouvellement constitué fait une impro, entre transe chamanique d'Europe du Nord et chant vaudou d'Haïti (sur une idée de Torill Faleide, directrice de communication, du festival. Résidence en vue ?) Erol Josué est, depuis 10 ans, le directeur du Bureau National d'Ethnologie à Port-au-Prince. Il poursuit également une carrière de chanteur. Son dernier album Pelerinaj est sorti en 2021 voir le clip.  Erol Josué à lire sur RFI Musique.  Musique - Mariana Sadovska, Drevo et Dyvyna (Ukraine) Drevo Live Førde - Atine (Iran/ Palestine/ France) Ey Tir Live Førde - Sona Jobarteh (Gambie/Uk) extrait Cd Djourou de Ballaké Sissoko voir le clip et Gambia voir le clip  - Torgeir Vassvik (Norvège) Dudinka  - Erol Josué (Haïti) Ren Sobo a.  

LoAn Guylaine TRAN is a 24th generation disciple of the Daoist Complete Reality Dragon Gate Pure Yang lineage of Mount Wudang, under the name Sincere Phoenix 誠鳳. First an activist and professional project manager for humanitarian organisation with a focus on women’s rights in the context of anti-trafficking and prostitution, her spiritual quest took her through year-long immersions in Buddhist and Yogic practices throughout Asia, before leading her into a 9 years Daoist apprenticeship at the Five Immortals Temple, Wudang, China. She now teaches Daoist arts of Energy and Spirit and practices Chinese medicine and Daoist healing, with an ever-renewing interest for the interactions of the form and the formless. www.featherbeings.com Big thanks to our sponsor The Apricot Grove! Eternal gratitude to Bart Matthews for our amazing intro music! Check out our FB page if you roll like that. For books! Become a Patron! theapricotjam@gmail.com

Tea Talks are back! We start off with a discussion on the daily energetic cycle. Follow the ebb and flow of qi throughout 12 meridians to learn how to better listen to your body. Tea Talks – Unfiltered Episode #14 >WaysOfWudang.com >Support the Ways on PatreonThe Ways of Wudang Channels Wudang Way – Martial Arts InstructionYoutubeFacebookInstagram Tea Talks-Unfiltered – Podcast SeriesYoutubeBuzzsproutSpotify Wudao Music – Xiao TutorialsYoutubeFacebookInstagramSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/waysofwudang)

Over a decade of martial arts training in Wudang, China has brought about a lot of changes in my life. In this episode, I will unpack some of the experiences of training and the lessons learned during my time learning and teaching martial arts, tai chi, and more. Tea Talks – Unfiltered Episode #13 >WaysOfWudang.com >Support the Ways on PatreonThe Ways of Wudang Channels Wudang Way – Martial Arts InstructionYoutubeFacebookInstagram Tea Talks-Unfiltered – Podcast SeriesYoutubeBuzzsproutSpotify Wudao Music – Xiao TutorialsYoutubeFacebookInstagramSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/waysofwudang)

Art is an expression of our true self. In this episode, I delve into what that means for me as a martial artist, as a student and teacher, and as a creative endeavor in general. We should bring art into every aspect of our lives and I hope this talk brings a little light and motivation to those things to which you are passionate about. Tea Talks – Unfiltered Episode #12 >WaysOfWudang.com >Support the Ways on PatreonThe Ways of Wudang Channels Wudang Way – Martial Arts InstructionYoutubeFacebookInstagram Tea Talks-Unfiltered – Podcast SeriesYoutubeBuzzsproutSpotify Wudao Music – Xiao TutorialsYoutubeFacebookInstagramSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/waysofwudang)

The Dao De Jing (Tao Teh Ching) is the classic text of Daoism. It includes everything from understanding cosmic forces, balancing oneself with nature, becoming a virtuous person, governing a nation,  running a military, and even cooking a fish! Listen along as I share with you my favorite five chapters from the Dao De Jing and all of the lessons that they have taught me over the years. Tea Talks – Unfiltered Episode #11 >WaysOfWudang.com >Support the Ways on PatreonThe Ways of Wudang Channels Wudang Way – Martial Arts InstructionYoutubeFacebookInstagram Tea Talks-Unfiltered – Podcast SeriesYoutubeBuzzsproutSpotify Wudao Music – Xiao TutorialsYoutubeFacebookInstagramSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/waysofwudang)

This week's episode, I am taking the disciple/coach hat off for a moment to discuss something more personal about myself, how I fell in love in Wudang, China at the martial arts academy. While this is a very personal story, and I am nervous to share it, I think it is an important conversation to have not just so you can learn more about me  but also because of the unique perspective between cultures that my relationship to, my now wife, Ling Ling opened me up to. Join me as I recant how we met, having a relationship while training martial arts, getting married, having a baby, and our experiences over the last decade of being together. Tea Talks – Unfiltered Episode #10 >WaysOfWudang.com >Support the Ways on PatreonThe Ways of Wudang Channels Wudang Way – Martial Arts InstructionYoutubeFacebookInstagram Tea Talks-Unfiltered – Podcast SeriesYoutubeBuzzsproutSpotify Wudao Music – Xiao TutorialsYoutubeFacebookInstagramSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/waysofwudang)

This week's episode is all about the fabric of Chinese society, the cultural practices that are part of everyday life. Listen along as I share with you my experiences while living in China for the better part of a decade on everything from conversations starters and the Chinese perspective to fengshui and the most important need-to-know details about Chinese culture.Tea Talks – Unfiltered Episode #9 >WaysOfWudang.com >Support the Ways on PatreonThe Ways of Wudang Channels Wudang Way – Martial Arts InstructionYoutubeFacebookInstagram Tea Talks-Unfiltered – Podcast SeriesYoutubeBuzzsproutSpotify Wudao Music – Xiao TutorialsYoutubeFacebookInstagramSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/waysofwudang)

Today we discuss how we should perceive our own role in health management. I introduce the "Hierarchy of Health" as a means for us to guide ourselves to our healthiest potential. With the terms health, longevity, wellbeing, and balance being thrown around so much in society, we need to ground ourselves in a good understanding of what that really means. I hope that we can de-mystify our own selves and find a balance between "alternative" and modern medicine as well as put in the work to preempt such methods from having to be used. Tea Talks – Unfiltered Episode #8 >WaysOfWudang.com >Support the Ways on PatreonThe Ways of Wudang Channels Wudang Way – Martial Arts InstructionYoutubeFacebookInstagram Tea Talks-Unfiltered – Podcast SeriesYoutubeBuzzsproutSpotify Wudao Music – Xiao TutorialsYoutubeFacebookInstagramSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/waysofwudang)

Today's episode is all about tea and the culture that surrounds it in China. I answer some questions and show you just how deep Chinese culture is immersed into tea production, preparation, and ceremony. From tea plants, types of tea, and the tea market to Gongfu cha, chadao, serving etiquette, and the culture around it all, in this episode we have a lot to discuss. So pour yourself a cup and join the conversation!Tea Talks – Unfiltered Episode #7 >WaysOfWudang.com >Support the Ways on PatreonThe Ways of Wudang Channels Wudang Way – Martial Arts InstructionYoutubeFacebookInstagram Tea Talks-Unfiltered – Podcast SeriesYoutubeBuzzsproutSpotify Wudao Music – Xiao TutorialsYoutubeFacebookInstagramSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/waysofwudang)

In this weeks discussion, we discuss Daoism. I share some of the concepts that are reflected in everything from the clothing and hair style to the history and transformation of Daoism over the years. Tea Talks – Unfiltered Episode #6 >WaysOfWudang.com >Support the Ways on PatreonThe Ways of Wudang Channels Wudang Way – Martial Arts InstructionYoutubeFacebookInstagram Tea Talks-Unfiltered – Podcast SeriesYoutubeBuzzsproutSpotify Wudao Music – Xiao TutorialsYoutubeFacebookInstagramSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/waysofwudang)

This week we discuss the concepts of "traditional" and "modern" in martial arts. The conversation around this topic can sometimes be heated and based in conflict by comparison. I hope that this tea talk clarifies some of the bias attached to each standard but also shows how each has its benefits and actually complements the other. Tradition and progression are two parts of a whole and they do not have to be contradictory regardless of how much each term implies. Tea Talks – Unfiltered Episode #5 >WaysOfWudang.com >Support the Ways on PatreonThe Ways of Wudang Channels Wudang Way – Martial Arts InstructionYoutubeFacebookInstagram Tea Talks-Unfiltered – Podcast SeriesYoutubeBuzzsproutSpotify Wudao Music – Xiao TutorialsYoutubeFacebookInstagramSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/waysofwudang)

The question on everyone's mind: "How do I become a Kungfu Master?" This is the subject for today's Tea Talk. Join me as we go into the full context of this terminology, touch on Chinese culture, explain the ranking system within martial arts training, and hopefully shed some light on the role of a Shifu. Tea Talks – Unfiltered Episode #4 >WaysOfWudang.com >Support the Ways on PatreonThe Ways of Wudang Channels Wudang Way – Martial Arts InstructionYoutubeFacebookInstagram Tea Talks-Unfiltered – Podcast SeriesYoutubeBuzzsproutSpotify Wudao Music – Xiao TutorialsYoutubeFacebookInstagramSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/waysofwudang)

Join me as I introduce the the 5 year traditional martial arts program that I participated in. From 2010 to 2014, I lived and trained in Wudang under the tutelage of Master Yuan Xiu Gang and his disciples to become a disciple of the San Feng Lineage myself. Today I want to share with you everything from the daily schedule to what this time meant to me and how it changed me. Tea Talks – Unfiltered Episode #3 >WaysOfWudang.com >Support the Ways on PatreonThe Ways of Wudang Channels Wudang Way – Martial Arts InstructionYoutubeFacebookInstagram Tea Talks-Unfiltered – Podcast SeriesYoutubeBuzzsproutSpotify Wudao Music – Xiao TutorialsYoutubeFacebookInstagramSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/waysofwudang)

Today, I tell the origins story of how I came to Wudang the very first time. When I first set out to travel to Wudang, China, I had just turned 20, never practiced martial arts, couldn't speak Chinese, and had never left home by myself, let alone went to a different country. In this episode, I tell the full tale and, while you may know the destination, the journey is where the story really begins.Tea Talks – Unfiltered Episode #2 >WaysOfWudang.com >Support the Ways on PatreonThe Ways of Wudang Channels Wudang Way – Martial Arts InstructionYoutubeFacebookInstagram Tea Talks-Unfiltered – Podcast SeriesYoutubeBuzzsproutSpotify Wudao Music – Xiao TutorialsYoutubeFacebookInstagramSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/waysofwudang)

Join me for the inaugural episode of Tea Talks - Unfiltered! This podcast begins on January 1st 2022 along with the launching of the brand new Ways of Wudang website! I hope that you will join me on this journey! Here's to finding balance, one cup of tea at a time! Tea Talks – Unfiltered Episode #1 >WaysOfWudang.com >Support the Ways on PatreonThe Ways of Wudang Channels Wudang Way – Martial Arts InstructionYoutubeFacebookInstagram Tea Talks-Unfiltered – Podcast SeriesYoutubeBuzzsproutSpotify Wudao Music – Xiao TutorialsYoutubeFacebookInstagramSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/waysofwudang)

Sifu David Wei is a 16th generation lineage holder of Wudang Zhang San Feng Pai, and a global instructor of Wudang Daoist wellness arts and traditional Chinese acupressure massage.  Under the direct guidance of Daoist priest, Master Yuan Xiu Gang, David completed over 11,000 hours of formal training at the Wudang Mountain Traditional Taoist Martial Arts Academy of China, in 2007, at which time he was accepted as a senior disciple. During those five years, David practiced internal martial arts, medical Qi Gong and meditation. He is also trained in medical massage, Tui Na, Zen Shiatsu, Acu-oil, and Lomi Lomi; and is a certified Wat Po therapist. Prior to Wudang, he trained in traditional Shaolin Gong Fu and classical Chinese brush painting with renowned Master Y.C. Chiang at Wen Wu School. David has since travelled globally, conducting workshop intensives in China, Thailand, Bali, Czech Republic, Sweden, England, Germany, Canada, Mexico, Hawaii, and across the U.S. In 2012, David founded the Wudang West Cultural Heritage Center, a 501(c)3 non-profit wellness ministry, based in Oakland, California, committed to the practice and preservation of classical Chinese healing arts. Show Notes: 1:00 David's journey into martial arts and accupressure. 6:30 What led him to shift his martial arts focus to that of a healing art instead of a breaking art. 9:30 Selling everything that he owned to begin life as a monk in China. 12:00 Staying true to his principles when an unexpected request was made of him by his Masters. 15:00 Discovering the real reason behind his mom's chronic shoulder pain–it had to do with emotional pain instead of mechanical pain. 16:00 How his insight into healing being a matter of the heart impacted his clinical work.  17:45 To have a lasting impact on his students or patients, it's not going to be in his technique, but in the space that he holds.  18:45 Getting people to slow down their tempo and give up their frantic pace is what leads to lasting healing. 24:00 If you put your energy on fixing things, there will always be more and more to fix, but if you put your energy on celebrating things, there will always be more and more to celebrate. 27:00 He isn't treating people–it's through Tai Chi movements that his patients feel better, simply by sharing his space. 33:00 His daily routine encompasses a daily walk, cup of tea, gentle mobility, meditation and holding space for guests. 34:00 He prescribes the 3 M's to his patients–movement, massage and meditation. 37:30 His current mentor is his 7-month-old son. 42:35 Someone he would enjoy meeting in life is the patriarch of his lineage, Zhang San Feng, who is often thought of as the creator of Tai Chi. 45:00 Some history on his lineage and the direction he has taken it. 51:00 His experience with trying out Plum Dragon Dit Da Jow and discovering that its fluidness, which differs from the thicker salves that he is used to, is what helps it absorb into the skin so quickly. He also loves the aromatic smell of the herbs. 54:00 Why he doesn't believe Traditional Chinese Medicine is a real thing–everything from the fact that it's not truly “traditional,” it's not exclusively “Chinese” and it's more about “healing” than “medicine” (which has the connotation of fixing a finite problem). Connect with David Wei: https://wudangwest.com   Connect with Plum Dragon Herbs: https://www.facebook.com/PlumDragonHerbs/ https://www.instagram.com/plumdragonherbs/ https://twitter.com/plumdragonherbs/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-ball-9679a713/ Try Plum Dragon Dit Da Jow: https://plumdragonherbs.com/collections/dit-da-jow   Thank You For Listening! How did you like this episode? We'd love to continue the discussion with you. Share your comments and takeaways below. And if you liked this episode, please subscribe to our iTunes and YouTube channels and be sure to follow, like and comment!   Podcast Music Credit: Motherlode Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Myit masin san seng ra ai // Christian Home.Wudang hpe yu let // Gospel songs.Karai mungga // Sermon.

Lindsey Wei began training in wushu in 2004 at the Beijing's Capitol Sports University. She trained full time in China for several years, concentrating most of her time at the Five Immortals Temple on White Horse Mountain peak under the tutelage of Master Li Shu Fu. In the US, she has taught kung fu and other classes in various capacities, but is currently offering immersion programs at various mountain venues in California and Oregon. Show Notes:  2:00 How a high school trip to China awakened Lindsey's desire to return to China in search for her spiritual path. Learned the Chinese language and modern wushu, a type of kung fu, and found it to have much more power and utilitarian uses than dance. 5:20 Stayed in China for several years before returning to the US and becoming a teacher. Pursued Wudang kung fu and Daoism and met Li Shifu during her time at the Five Mortals Temple. 14:00 After teaching regular martial arts classes in the U.S. for a while, Lindsey once again turned toward her passion of more immersive experiences. She began teaching wilderness retreats where students could connect with nature and understand Daoism.  19:00 Believes every martial arts student should experience the spirit behind the art. 22:00 A bootleg fire ran directly through a property that Lindsey had just purchased for her retreats. This life-changing experience changed how she had envisioned her work. 24:40 Literally rising above the ashes, Lindsey regards the new landscape as hauntingly beautiful and takes people there to learn from the mysteries that the land affords to them. 25:30 Giving back to the earth and helping her land rejuvenate has become important to Lindsey. 27:00 Accepting our destiny and moving forward can be a blessing in our lives if we don't miss it. 28:45 Believes it's healthy to feel our emotions and allow them to cycle through the five phases (wuxing) so they don't become trapped inside of us. 30:00 Processing deep pools of grief from what the fire destroyed has been her primary emotion.Through gathering and planting seeds in the land, it has renewed her hope. 35:00 Her books, The Valley Spirit (her personal memoir) and  Path of the Spiritual Warrior (about the life and teachings of Pedro Villalobos) are ultimately about the path of a spiritual warrior–what it truly means to be a martial artist, including both combat and the internal aspect. 39:00 We all need movement and meditation in our lives. 41:00 Most people are lacking in perseverance and ferocity. 43:30 Many of her archived classes are available online at www.wudangwhitehorseonline.com and she will be adding some live classes soon. 45:00 Staying in the game is more possible if we develop a willingness to stay focused and keep going. This will help us push through hardship and learn life lessons that can shape us instead of embitter us. Connect with Lindsey Wei: Instagram https://www.instagram.com/lindsey12wei/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/lindsey.wei Connect with Plum Dragon Herbs: YouTube |  Facebook | Instagram | Twitter  | LinkedIn  Try Plum Dragon Dit Da Jow: Dit Da Jow Collection Thank You For Listening! How did you like this episode? We'd love to continue the discussion with you.  Share your comments and takeaways below.   And if you liked this episode, please subscribe to our iTunes and YouTube channels and be sure to follow, like and comment! Podcast Music Credit: Motherlode Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)  Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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A week later than billed (soz, life y'know?) but we are here with CTHD. We discuss the terrible joke made in Co-op that is now haunting Grouch's every waking moment, the most romantic words ever spoken on film (fight us) and are Wudang training and The Force linked...? Please, please please give us a rating wherever you listen, share us about and help us in our bid for world domination. If you leave us a review on Apple iTunes, Oswald Dog or Eisley the Space Port cat will give you a shout out! Have a hilarious or embarrassing movie related story? TELL US! moviegrouchfanboypod@outlook.com Be part of the crew: IG- @moviegrouchandfanboypod FB- Movie Grouch & Fanboy  

De Bruce Lee aux films hongkongais de Kung-fu, nombreux sont celles et ceux qui ont grandi en rêvant de temples perdus au sommet d'une montagne chinoise ou de vénérables sages à la barbe immaculée et au coup de pied parfait.Dans une Chine communiste post-Mao, on imagine que la religion a souvent été reléguée au folklore ou à la culture pop'. Pourtant il existe des lieux et des personnes qui tentent tant bien que mal de faire vivre des traditions ancestrales.C'est ainsi que l'anthropologue Adeline Herrou fait la connaissance de Maître Feng. Un jour de printemps au tournant de l'année 2013, elle découvre ce que le moine taoïste est en train de bâtir.Références sonores et extraits musicaux- sauf mention contraire tous les extraits sont issus des travaux de recherche d'Adeline Herrou ainsi que de son film documentaire, Maitre Feng (2018).- 51 sec: extrait coup de pied de la wu-tang-collection-master-of-death- 7 min 43 extrait des archives du temple de Wudang- 9 min 45, extrait Kill Bill, Vol.2, The Legend of Pai Mei- 10 min 21 extrait des archives du temple de WudangCréditsJingle : Boginoo duu : voix chantée, vièle à deux cordes [enregistrement sonore] / Hamayon, Roberte (collectrice), Mongolie, environs de Ulan Bator, population Khalkha, 1973. Remerciements : Roberte Hamayon.Consultation publique en ligne sur le site du CREM. Provenance : Archives sonores CNRS/Musée de l'Homme gérées par le Centre de Recherche en Ethnomusicologie (LESC UMR 7186, CNRS/Université Paris Nanterre) avec le soutien du ministère de la Culture et de la Communication«Secrets de terrain» est un podcast conçu et animé par Clea Chakraverty, réalisé et monté par Vanessa Tubiana-Brun (CNRS-Nanterre/MSH Mondes). Il est produit par The Conversation France et la revue d'anthropologie et de sciences sociales Terrain. L'illustration «Secrets de terrain» a été gracieusement accordée par le dessinateur Adrià Fruitos Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Entretien avec Philippe Lavoie de l'école Alchimie Vitale à Québec. On discute de son parcours dans les arts martiaux chinois, notamment avec son professeur Issmet Himmet et l'approche Wudang Principles. On aborde sa vision des arts martiaux comme art de paix et l'importance d'une saine relation professeur-élève.

George is the creator of an amazing film, an epic philosophical adventure exploring ancient answers to humanity's biggest challenges.He recorded his journey by train all the way from UK, across Europe, Russia, Siberia and finally, China. We spoke about the things he has learned on the journey and what Master Gu has taught him in the Wudang Mountains.Resources:George's film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE9vH3vtrr4

This episode explores a tale from one of my real-life adventures. It's from a trip I took with my son to Mt. Wudang in China.

The year that is known as 2020 has proven to be a watershed moment for the martial arts world. The arguments and bravado that raged on social media in the years before 2020, had in the chaos of the coronavirus disappeared. The reason for this is that many so-called martial artists discovered that the standards they hold others to, they weren't able to measure up to those same standards themselves. They had cherry picked their way and realised that when the day came they were either unfit, undertrained, or just not committed enough to really rise above the chaos of the battlefield that had been the pandemic. And so they quit. And hid themselves away as mandated by their respective governments and basically forgot (if they ever really knew) what true martial arts is about. Sure, you could argue differently. But for most martial artists, their self-identity is tied up with the fantasy and not reality. If it had been based on the reality, you would have seen the pandemic for what it is: A chance to test one's commitment to the martial arts way by reinforcing one's training, diet and mental stamina. Because 2020 is just a test-run for something far bigger coming in the near future. And no! It is not going to be a zombie apocalypse. Now, if you had kept up your training or adapted it to the changing circumstances, well done! Pat yourselves on the back because what you did was rather than leaving everything behind to go climb Kunlun 崑崙山 or cloister up in Wudang 武當山, you stood still and allowed the mountain to come to you. This is the secret behind Sun Wukong 孫悟空 a.k.a. The Monkey King and his imprisonment by the Buddha in the mountain. Even though release from the mountain in the novel Journey to the West 西遊記 is a physical act, the truth behind it is one of realisation that 2020 was and is a giant doorway that not all are able to pass through. This is why so many of us have disappeared, were left behind, and have succumbed to its fears. And it is just a doorway.

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J’ai invité 3 experts de Taichi pour échanger avec nous en live. 3 experts, 3 styles de Taichi : Thierry Alibert (Taichi Yang), Charles-Henri Belmonte (Taichi Wudang) et Jean-Jacques Galinier (Taichi Chen). Discussion débat autour du Taichi, des arts martiaux chinois, d’ouverture d’esprit, l’entraide, les similitudes dans leurs pratique, le futur… et de toutes les valeurs qui font que les arts martiaux vont bien au-delà d’un simple sport.   ✅ Manuel pédagogique TAICHI en DVD

These days, when I wake up in the morning I find myself pondering a lot on the nature of my personal Tao and where it is leading me. Because when a person decides to study the Tao, there happens to be a lot of stuff available. But most of it feels like wading in a shallow pool when there is a whole ocean just over the sea wall waiting to be explored. It is vast and deep and mysterious. And like all men of the sea, I can feel it calling me to her. And so each day, with each baguazhang set done, I move a little closer. But what is one's personal Tao, I ask? We can all follow systems, methods, beliefs and cultures. But these things are a group thing. Even within Taoism, there are at least three general paths available to somebody doing martial arts. The first is Taoism the philosophy, which is what most people pursue when they do not want to be in conflict with their currently held beliefs. The second is Taoism the religion. This is the path that leads to Wudang and Emei, and Chinese cultural beliefs. And the third path is a mush-mash of the first two paths plus some extra weird stuff thrown in. Most martial artists practicing a Chinese martial art will usually resonate with the third way. Now... ...there is also a fourth path. And that is the Taoism that comes via China's neighbours: Japan, Korea, Mongolia, Vietnam and Thailand. These versions are like snapshots of what the Tao was way back when in time. And even though they may look different, be called something else and feel foreign, it is still the Tao. But what is the nature of our personal Tao? If I based it on the dreams I have been having at night, then there is a sense that my personal Tao is leading me back to the beginning. To the time before I knew about any of this. Before baguazhang. Before weiqi. And before the I-Ching. Back to the time when I was about eight years old and I used to dream a lot about visiting a place with narrow alleyways and cramped up living conditions filled with Chinese. In these dreams I would walk down an alleyway, turn and go through a door decorated with red banners on either side of it. To which I would meet a beautiful Chinese maiden with long black hair flowing straight down to her waist. She would take me down a flight of stairs into a basement area that looked like a whisky lounge. And sitting around on stools and chairs would be half a dozen extremely gorgeous Chinese women, all in their early twenties and with the same long hair style. The dream would end with one of them leading me into another more private room. I would wake up and keep a secret journal of it as best as I could. But I couldn't make of it at all because at that time, the only thing on television regarding China would either be on the news or ‘Journey to the West' a.k.a. The Monkey King. New Zealand was about as far away from the rest of the world a person could get to without leaving western civilisation. To some degree I am willing to admit that David Bowie's classic ‘Little China Girl' had an influence on me, but China wasn't exactly on my radar until I met Charlie from Hong Kong in form two, when I was twelve years old. He told me that my descriptions of the places in my dreams sounded a lot like The Walled City in Kowloon, Hong Kong. What any of this has to do with now, I do not know other than my personal Tao is leading me here like a giant bagua wheel.

27ème épisode de la série : La Parole aux Pratiquants avec Charles-Henri Belmonte, expert international en Wudang Taichi. Son nom de disciple est YOU Weiri. Il a été le guide de Lionel lors de ses 2 tournages En Terre Martiale à la rencontre des maîtres et disciples du Wudang en Chine. Le maître chargé de sa formation actuelle s'appelle, Shifu YOU Lizong 15ème génération du Wudang Pai. Il est le disciple du Grand Maître YOU XUAN DE, 14ème Génération Wudang Pai. ✅ Retrouve Charles-Henri Belmonte en DVD

Karai mungga // Sermon. Jinghpaw shawa shakawn mahkawn // Jinghpaw Hymn songs.

Karai mungga // Sermon. Jinghpaw shawa shakawn mahkawn // Jinghpaw Hymn songs.

Dr. Simon Cox talked with us on Dec. 23 about Buddhist views of the subtle body, and today he’s sharing his life journey with us, from his time watching cartoons in Houston, TX (including a Batman cartoon that started him on his lifelong quest to understand the subtle body) to his time training in kung fu and Taoist contemplative practices at Wudang mountain to Rice’s Department of Religion, where he recently defended his dissertation on the subtle body. So get ready for an epic journey across continents, and be sure to tune in again on February 3 when Simon will tell us all about the Taoist subtle body. Join the tribe with our fun, free biweekly newsletter: http://bit.ly/rbrthnews Check out Simon's (and his wife's) website, https://www.okanaganvalleywudang.com, for amazing images from their time in China. Check out more content at clairevillarreal.com or share your story of death and rebirth with us: claire@clairevillarreal.com.

In this episode, I talk to Stev from Wudang Deutschland. We talk about different styles in Tai Ji and how those can benefit your health. This episode is in English and divided into two halves, in the first half, we have a conversation about the topic and in the second Stev demonstrates the so-called 'standing principles' and the different styles we talked about. So if you'd like to see the second part, jump over to youtube, the section is marked in the time stamp: https://youtu.be/MdesGJSGVUI If you'd like to find out more about Stev here are some links: Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCck8xj3X7awElaBvNuTE9cAWebsite: https://www.wudang-deutschland.de/ 0:00 Intro 0:26 Episode Intro 01:09 Stev's introduction 2:01 Background about the different styles 3:50 Benefits of the practice 6:10 Where to begin with Taiji - expansion on the health aspect 12:40 How long it takes to see the benefits 16:10 What means ‚regular‘ training? 18:25 The spiritual aspect of Wudang 25:52 Demonstration of the standing principles 32:07 Demonstration of the other styles

Jinghpaw shawa shakawn mahkawn n'sen // Jinghpaw Hymn song.

Jinghpaw shawa shakawn mahkawn n'sen // Jinghpaw Hymn song.

Jinghpaw shawa shakawn mahkawn n'sen // Jinghpaw Hymn songs.

Jinghpaw shawa shakawn mahkawn n'sen // Jinghpaw Hymn songs.

SummaryEric’s returned to Mt. Wudang for a pit-stop before he goes back out to complete his quest. The free content this month has been heavily focused on the paranormal, but now he’s shifting gears into the deep psychic and spiritual! Topics covered in this class include:• What you're doing when entering deep spiritual states of consciousness • Where psychic sensory and the spiritual meet• Reflections from experiencing strange phenomena in Utah • The I vs. Me technique• Discussions on HBI's upcoming classes and how you can get more involvedWatch the video of this episode here: https://rebelgururadio.com/episode76/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Az Artus 2020. október 9-én mutatja be Minden című előadását, amelyet többek közt egy Wudang-hegyi zarándoklat inspirált. Goda Gábor, az Artus művészeti vezetője mesélt a koncepcióról és arról, milyen fontos szerep jut az életünkben a csőlátásnak. A rendezővel Kalmár András beszélgetett szeptember 23-án.

Underground Music, Hip-Hop/Rap/MCing, Breakcore, EDM and Metal Disc Jockey with either a much greater emphasis on linguistic inventiveness than mainstream forms or a greater emphasis on the use of extreme profanity and disturbing criminal themes. Starring: Scorpion Frequency, Electric Breathing, Brom:35, NoizeFloor, Dead Beat Project, The Rappists, DJ 2def, Mr.Stabby, Mr. Morder, Jay Omerta, King Keemo, Mr.Siso, The Harmony Society, Kinky Bitch, Dynamic, Frankz Wit A Z, Mista Mead, H3vy Stu, Vicious 5150, RcThaHazard, J-ClaWsin, Lilo Frank, EffeSei, Christyle, DisaJohnny, Scar, Onnis, Marco Tosh, Labo & Yu-Sei. The difference between a pop/top-40/requests DJ and an underground DJ is not that one plays better music than the other or that one is a sellout, or that one is a “musical masturbator”. The difference is in the crowd that they are intended for: searchers vs. discoverers. The “underground” “club” DJ is the kind that wants to educate his crowd… yet another term I’ll use with hesitation. He wants to find a correlation between what he likes and what his crowd responds to, by way of introducing them to music they may not have otherwise heard. He wants to teach and encourage them to find something they didn’t know they needed. Whether it’s the thrashing riffs or either the sampling or the EDM-esque chorus in motion, there is not a second that doesn’t have a catchy sample and jingle part going on. The music is not without its flaws though, some songs are clearly better than others, Not that there is a bad song here. He puts absolutely everything new or remind the listener of past sounds but everything it does, it does well and even great at times. this might as well be the perfect soundtrack for all kind of music. If you're suspicious of this claim, then hijack the jukebox at your local bar or kindly offer to be the DJ at a Halloween party and getting rid of any stylistic barriers to integrated music. The outstanding drums, variety and overall harshness and brevity combining most of the harshest elements of metal with electronic genres, these record creates some outrageously chaotic freak outs from each of its eclectic formula.

Underground Music, Hip-Hop/Rap/MCing, Breakcore, EDM and Metal Disc Jockey with either a much greater emphasis on linguistic inventiveness than mainstream forms or a greater emphasis on the use of extreme profanity and disturbing criminal themes. Starring: Scorpion Frequency, Electric Breathing, Brom:35, NoizeFloor, Dead Beat Project, The Rappists, DJ 2def, Mr.Stabby, Mr. Morder, Jay Omerta, King Keemo, Mr.Siso, The Harmony Society, Kinky Bitch, Dynamic, Frankz Wit A Z, Mista Mead, H3vy Stu, Vicious 5150, RcThaHazard, J-ClaWsin, Lilo Frank, EffeSei, Christyle, DisaJohnny, Scar, Onnis, Marco Tosh, Labo & Yu-Sei. The difference between a pop/top-40/requests DJ and an underground DJ is not that one plays better music than the other or that one is a sellout, or that one is a “musical masturbator”. The difference is in the crowd that they are intended for: searchers vs. discoverers. The “underground” “club” DJ is the kind that wants to educate his crowd… yet another term I’ll use with hesitation. He wants to find a correlation between what he likes and what his crowd responds to, by way of introducing them to music they may not have otherwise heard. He wants to teach and encourage them to find something they didn’t know they needed. Whether it’s the thrashing riffs or either the sampling or the EDM-esque chorus in motion, there is not a second that doesn’t have a catchy sample and jingle part going on. The music is not without its flaws though, some songs are clearly better than others, Not that there is a bad song here. He puts absolutely everything new or remind the listener of past sounds but everything it does, it does well and even great at times. this might as well be the perfect soundtrack for all kind of music. If you're suspicious of this claim, then hijack the jukebox at your local bar or kindly offer to be the DJ at a Halloween party and getting rid of any stylistic barriers to integrated music. The outstanding drums, variety and overall harshness and brevity combining most of the harshest elements of metal with electronic genres, these record creates some outrageously chaotic freak outs from each of its eclectic formula.

While wrapping up Hot August Knights with Polina's pick Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) we welcome back guest Ryan Skonnord. Much like the amazing fight choreography in the movie, we flex our creativity breaking apart this beautiful drama's famously ambiguous ending. A young Chinese warrior steals a sword from a famed swordsman and then escapes into a world of romantic adventure with a mysterious man in the frontier of the nation. Stars Chow Yun Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, Chen Chang, Sihung Lung, Cheng Pei-Pei, Fazeng Li, Xian Gao, Yan Hai, Deming Wang, Li Li, Suying Huang and directed by Ang Lee. (from IMDb.com) Find other amazing podcasts by searching #ladypodsquad on Twitter, Facebook, and all the social media platforms. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @HEAMCast, like us on Facebook @HappilyEverAftermath, and e-mail us at contact@heamcast.com.

Jason came to work at the ayahuasca healing center Temple of the Way of Light (Peru) in 2012.  After working with ayahuasca extensively, he began the process of dieting plants.  He dieted in the Shipibo tradition and began working with maestro Ernesto Garcia Torres in 2013.  Through a long apprenticeship and training, involving prolonged isolation, fasting, and dieting of plants, he was eventually given the blessing to begin working plants.  After working for some time as a tabaquero, he was eventually given the ability to administer diets; to share in the tradition from which he had learned and which has taught him so much.  He has been living, learning, and working in the jungle since then.  He currently works at the Temple of the Way of Light as a facilitator of ayahuasca ceremonies and has run diets there and elsewhere in Peru.  In the last seven years he has helped guide over a thousand people in ceremonies.   Jason is also a former actor (check IMDb for more info), certified in the Yoga Alliance and in Ashtanga with Richard Freeman.  He learned Qigong from Jung-Ping Yuan and went to Wudang, China to learn Taiji.  He has practiced many martial arts such as Judo, Aikido, and spent a year in Thailand learning Muay Thai from Master Pi Kob.  He also became an avid practitioner of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu from Victor "Shaolin" Ribeiro and Marcos "Loro" Galvao. As we discuss in this podcast, Jason is also the host of a wonderful new podcast called "The Universe Within".    For more information about Jason and all his activities see his website: https://www.universewithinpodcast.com or here for his dieta information:  https://www.nicotianarustica.org Have a great week!

Bjarte Hiley is a specialist at facilitating the transformation of people´s relationships to themselves and life through movement. He is the founder of Daomove, a method he developed to invite people into a deeper contact with their embodied experience, and let themselves be moved into bold action from that place.What Is The Daomove Practice? It is a space where you can explore yourself and the completely unique expression that lives inside you. A space for exploring what happens in you as you connect with another person in the moment, not knowing where it will take you, or what will be created between you. A place where you have the possibility to open up parts of yourself that you may not have known existed.DJ & I are focussed on using a wide-range of tools to experiment with, and experience human consciousness, physical potential and psychosocial expression. We speak with a wide-range of scientists, practitioners, explorers, therapists and interesting people with authentic stories to tell. Our aim is to keep conversations real, relaxed, probing and imaginative. Bjarte is certainly a unique guy. At a young age, he moved to China where he studied under Daoist kung fu master Zhong in the mountains of Wudang. Whilst this conversation doesn't go into detail of that experience, it does allow space for bodily experience to be presented through questions, reflections and stillness. Hope you take time to enjoy this conversation! Remember to take some slow and deep breaths throughout and maybe head over to my YouTube channel to watch the conversation to gain a closer perspective on the presence in motion of someone who has certainly experienced internal practice on a deep level.Website: https://daomove.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/daomove/?hl=enMusic: https://www.akirathedon.com/DJs Podcast: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/...Listen and support the Primal Movers Podcast on the usual platformshttps://www.buzzsprout.com/276060/Primal Movers YouTube channel - Video episodeshttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6U50aWNy1GikYV0NLm6nBASupport this podcast with some PayPal energy:https://www.paypal.me/TomMountjoy

Živa Pogačnik je ambasadorka ozaveščanja o pomenu zdrave prehrane in ustvarjalka funkcionalnih obrokov Zivabowl. Živa je absolvent filozofije in sociologije kulture. Opravila je tudi izpit iz nutricizma po načelih tradicionalne kitajske medicine, poučevala Qigong na Zavodu za zdravstveno zavarovanje Slovenije – območna enota Kranj. Je ustanovna članica in predsednica društva »Ognjič« - društvo za naravno in kvalitetno življenje. Sodelovala je pri pisanju knjige Resnice in zmote o kandidi. Bila je tudi zelo vpeta v pisanje člankov za revijo Aura na temo dao prehrane. Živa je bila tudi ena ključnih oseb, pri idejnem načrtu in organizaciji projekta Wudang kungfu – mojstrski spektakel v okviru društva Tao In, društva za krepitev telesa, uma in duha. V Slovenije je prišel veliki mojster You Xuandeja, ki je eden od desetih najboljših mojstrov notranjih borilnih veščin na Kitajskem. V Ljubljanski Hali Tivoli je potekal »Wudang Kung Fu - mojstrski spektakel«, kjer je svoje osupljive veščine poleg velikega mojstra You Xuandeja demonstriralo tudi 45 njegovih učencev. Mnogi med njimi so mednarodni prvaki v različnih panogah kung fuja, tai jija. Navdušuje jo moč narave, vpliv prehrane na naše zdravje in mentalno stanje ter optimiziranje nivoja naše energije s pomočjo prehrane in biohackinga. Predvsem jo fascinira krepitev in množenje mitohondrijev ter zdravje in pomen našega mikrobioma. Izdelki Zivabowl: So polnovredni obroki v štirih okusih: kakav, malina, črni ribez, cimet. So veganom prijazni, primerni za diabetike in razne lchf in keto diete, vsebujejo obilo omega 3 maščobnih kislin, ki delujejo protivnetno ter vlaknin, ki nam jih v večini primerov primanjkuje. Naj quote: "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are" - Theodore Roosevelt Naj knjiga: Healing With Whole Foods - Paul Pitchford Naj serija: Mindhunter Hobiji: vrtnarjenje Najljubša hrana: indijska Najljubši podjetnik: BassBabe (tuji); Natashaspace - Nataša Godler Trilar; Nina Štefe - Čas za kavo; Polona Jerič - Zlataptička; Naj app: SleepCycle Trije nauki: 1. Vlagajte v ustvarjanje koristnih/zdravih navad - ko so enkrat avtomatizem, so brezplačna voda na vaš mlin. 2. Bodite vrlinski za trajnostni uspeh in občutek zadovoljstva v svojem življenj. 3. Ne plavajte proti mogočnemu toku narave - may the force be with you. *Slovenian Research Agency, Program P5-0364 – The Impact of Corporate Governance, Organizational Learning, University of Ljubljana, School of Economics and Business, Slovenia.

On November 10th, 2019, at Tai Chi Studio (Warsaw, Poland), Allatra TV Polska had an interview with Zhou Xuan Yun, daoist monk, Wudang Kung-Fu and Tai Chi Master and founder of Daoist Gate Wudang Arts. In this warm conversation we asked questions about how Master Zhou sees the creative society, and how each of us can contribute to its creation. Thank you very much to Mariusz Sroczyński & Kamila Jagiełło for help in organizing this interview. Background about project “SOCIETY. THE LAST CHANCE": On May 11th, 2019, a unique global event took place on the platform of “ALLATRA” International Public Movement - the international video conference “SOCIETY. THE LAST CHANCE". It is a grand event for the whole society, that inspired millions of people! The conference has become a very bright, positive, life-affirming example of the fact that people really can do a lot together, when they unite in their pure selfless aspirations for the benefit of all humanity! People of different nationalities, religions, professions from more than 140 countries of the world openly communicated without intermediaries, look into each other’s eyes, truthfully voiced real and pressing problems of society, and shared their sincere (living) understandings of ways to solve world crises in all spheres of life through changes of the consumer format of the society to creative one. International video conference has caused a wide resonance among people. They all shared inspiring experience of interaction in a new, creative format and talked about ways of addressing issues that were raised during the video conference “SOCIETY. THE LAST CHANCE”. IMPORTANT UPDATE: Due to the fact that the World Health Organization has declared a coronavirus pandemic and many countries have declared quarantine in their territories, the International Conference "Society. The Last Chance", scheduled for May 9, 2020, is postponed to 2021. At the request of organizers and many participants from different countries, the conference will be held next year on May 15th. Official site of the project “Creative Society": https://allatraunites.com Official mail of the project “Creative Society": info@allatraunites.com Official site of “ALLATRA” International Public Movement: https://allatra.org Official mail of “ALLATRA” International Public Movement: info@allatra.org #CreativeSociety #allatraunites #AllatRa

En el capítulo 126 de El Libro Rojo entrevisto a Jordi Vilà i Oliveras, maestro de Qigong y Taijiquan y alumno de la escuela taoísta de Wudang, escritor y traductor de varios libros sobre medicina y arte tradicional chino. ¿Qué importancia tiene el Yijing, o I Ching, para la cultura y filosofía chinas? ¿Cuál es su origen histórico y mitológico? ¿Cuál es la estructura del texto y cómo se utiliza a nivel práctico?

I speak with David Wei about Wudang Kung Fu and Life Nourishment through the context of Asian culture and practices.

In today's podcast Mason chats to Jeff Chilton. Jeff has been working in the medicinal mushroom industry since 1973 and is an absolute specialist in his field. Jeff is the founder of Nammex, the leading supplier of organic mushroom extracts in the world today. With over 40 years of mushroom growing experience, Jeff was one of the first people to bring mushroom extracts to the North American market. All you medicinal mushroom nerds out there make sure you catch this episode, Jeff is a deep reservoir of knowledge and insight!   The gents wax lyrical over: The ins and outs of mushroom harvesting. The difference between products made from mushroom mycelium as opposed to their fruiting body.  Cordyceps Cs-4. The inferior nature of grain grown medicinal mushroom products. The nature of the medicinal mushroom industry at large, and what to look out for in regards to quality and authenticity. Following your passion in business. Retaining your integrity in the mushroom industry. Polysaccharides and betaglucans. China as a superior source Who is Jeff Chilton ?   Resources  Q: How Can I Support The SuperFeast Podcast?   A: Tell all your friends and family and share online! We’d also love it if you could subscribe and review this podcast on iTunes. Or  check us out on Stitcher :)! Plus  we're on Spotify and Soundcloud!   Check Out The Transcript Here: Time to talk tonic herbalism people. Maybe some medicinal mushrooms and philosophy for longevity, so pour yourself a tonic and get ready to get super human, baby. Let's start the show!   Mason: Hello everybody. Welcome back to the podcast. Got one that, I've been really looking forward to doing this interview. Jeff Chilton, I'll go into a little breakdown now, rather than just jumping ahead to why I'm really into his work. He's been in the mushroom industry since 1973. When it comes to mushroom cultivation, back then, he was really pioneering. Especially, a lot of the mushrooms that we have available today via cultivation in the west.   Mason: He had a lot to do with the developing the manufacturing of those. Then in 1989, switched over to the manufacturing of medicinal mushroom extract, so he's OG in this medicinal mushroom world. There was no real trending back then. And I, like him, we met two years ago at a herbal symposium in Oregon. That's when I really ... super aware of him and just how he was just via just his own integrity and just educating the market.   Mason: He became this internal watchdog of the industry. Just in the sense of just calling out real bad practices that are going on in the medicinal mushroom industry, and still today, and educating people, so you can spot a product on the market which is telling fibs, and really doesn't have the good stuff that we have all come to know and love about medicinal mushrooms.   Mason: So NAMMEX is his company, also Real Mushrooms, and I love the fact that we can sit down as colleagues, offering medicinal mushrooms, having more at it from the Taoist perspective and Jeff just rocking gin that specialization of mushrooms and especially being such an originator of the entire industry. I really love to be able to sit down, talk with him and ask him about the history, especially he's really been shining in educating people about the difference between growing medicinal mushrooms on wood and on mycelium. And we dive into nuances of that.   Mason: Basically we talk about the industry and we talk about setting up relationships in China and just how amazing it is to be able to source really incredible, the most high quality mushrooms that you're gonna be able to get in the world outside of a wild cultivated situation. Where we are talking about medicinal qualities. Getting those from China and being able to educate people about the beauty of getting them from China. We talk a little bit about that.   Mason: Also what it's taken for us to develop the relationships with growers and farmers and so I think you'll find it really interesting hearing me from 2011, Jeff from 1989 really navigating the difference in our stories. As well we go into organic because Jeff has pioneered in getting the first certified organic mushroom supplement in the US which is really amazing. We go a little bit into that, I share my two cents on where I see organic is at. More so the reason why I like Jeff is because he's not like most companies that just think the be all and end all is paying for this little sticker, jumping through a couple of hurdles and getting the sticker on your product.   Mason: But what we call going beyond organic. And Jeff does that with the organic certification and I share my two cents on where I'm at with that whole thing. But mostly just how much I love that he's non-stop out there educating people. Not just trying to flog a product, not just trying to grow this crazy big business. But I think that's kind of inevitably happening, it's just a nice slow growth of a business. Because it has a lot of trust and it has a lot of consistency in its messaging. And we talk a lot about that and have a lot of laughs and get a couple of stories about the history of the mushroom kingdom and those mushroom people back in the day. We talk about mushroom conferences and a bunch of other things. I think you'll really enjoy it, I hope as much as I did, here's Jeff Chilton from NAMMAX.   Mason: Jeff, thanks for joining me, man.   Jeff: Hey Mason, thanks a lot for having me.   Mason: Absolute pleasure, so remind me where are you again in the world?   Jeff: I am in British Columbia, Canada. I like on Vancouver Island out on the West Coast. You and I are actually connected by the Pacific Ocean.   Mason: Vancouver Island especially, for some reason that just keeps on calling in. I keep on having friends, awesome friends and now you. You're waiting there. And I'm like "What is the pull?"   Jeff: Yeah. You have gotta come. Definitely come in our summer time because otherwise you'll just be hit by all of those things you don't like, which is rain and all the rest.   Mason: Well, it brings mushrooms, yeah?   Jeff: It's true.   Mason: When is it really on for you there? What months is it on for mushroom harvesting?   Jeff: Mushroom season is really going strong in October. First couple weeks in November still happening but then things cool off too much then it slows down and there's nothing happening. We get rains in August, which really primes things then in the last couple weeks in September we could see things starting to pop up.   Mason: All right, I love it. October, that sounds good to me. Let's dive in a little bit because we met maybe we were chatting it must've been two years ago.   Jeff: At the American Herbalist Guild Conference in Oregon, which was just awesome.   Mason: That was amazing, I mean, we were in Silverton? Is that right?   Jeff: Silverton, exactly, yeah, that's where we were.   Mason: But apparently not the witch one. No, I think that's on the other side. Tony was looking at Silverton but that's where all the witches were.   Jeff: Oh, ah   Mason: That's a different Silverton. I can't remember the name of the hotel but their grounds rolling in and the ginkgo trees, big ginkgo trees as well lining it. And then all the herbalists who came and did their herb walks were just frothing at how much they were able to go and show everyone how to forage, how to identify. Because the array of herbs there was incredible. That place is designed.   Jeff: It was absolutely designed. It was a huge property and they put in all sorts of different plants, herbs and different kinds of trees. It was a beautiful venue there are a great place to have that. Even on the Saturday night when they had a band playing and everybody was dancing. I had a great time.   Mason: That's so good, yeah. I imagine that place gets a lot of herbal symposiums going through it. And man, the best thing, the fig tree was kicking. Did you get up there and face on the fig then, during that symposium? That was the best part of it. Right next to the pine.   Jeff: Oh my goodness, no. I hardly had a chance to get outside which is back to my place where I was staying on the grounds and then down to the venue. But I was locked into my booth most of the time and talking to people. And then in the evenings it was nice. It was a fun thing. And I know you said you had a chance to get to hear Christopher Hobbs while you were there. That had to have been really great because I always enjoy seeing Chris. I know he was really busy in fact, funny thing was Chris told me, he said "God, I'm sorry I didn't spend more time with you. I ran into an old girlfriend."   Mason: Oh, right, I'm happy for him.   Jeff: Me too.   Mason: You're like, 100%, I can't contend with that. So '86 Hobbs wrote the book. Were you aware when his book 'Medicinal Mushrooms' came out, because when was NAMMAX first created?   Jeff: I started the business in 1989. I'm trying to remember whether I knew Chris at that point in time or not, but he was part of the whole herbal industry, so to speak, and Herbalist Guild and all of that back then. I wasn't nearly as much in touch with herbalists until I started my company. Before that it was just pretty much just mushroom people and all the people that were in the mushroom world over here. There are a lot of them. Mushrooms really happening. Long before the herbal industry figured it out and got wind of it.Chris was one of the first because he was an herbalist but also was interested in fungi. So that was really cool.   Mason: Yeah, I think he studied and formally became a mycologist as well.   Jeff: Well, no, he was a botanist, definitely a trained botanist and a history orf botany in his family. Herbalists and things like that. And now he went on and he got a PhD in molecular genetics.   Mason: Okay, he's going down that route. I like that book because he was really able to balance the mystical aspects of the mushroom herbal kingdom especially and then dive deep down into the science. It's something that only him and Steven Hardliner. Steven is the master at going down deep, molecular how a particular compound is interacting with a particular viral passade. And then blowing into full throttle Earth poetry in the next paragraph. It's a real gift. Going back to the 80s, you were running with the mushroom clique in America. Yeah, tell us the story.   Jeff: The thing was in the 70s... Well, first of all in the late 60s magic mushrooms were really great interest. That was one of the things that I was really studying at university. I had this interested in mushrooms in the 60s and I reading all about a man named Gordon Wasson. Are you familiar with Gordon Wasson?   Mason: Just the name and loosely, but not really.   Jeff: Yeah, so Gord Wasson was a New York banker with a Russian wife. He learned about mushrooms being used deep in the mountains of Mexico by Curanderez and went down there in the 50s and spent the next five summers down there. He classified a whole bunch of different psilocybes during that period because he took a French mycologist with him. And so, five summers. But he basically opened up this whole world of Look! Still today after thousands of years there are people in the world that are still using these psychoactive mushrooms in their healing practices. Man, that was a mindblower.   Jeff: So I was reading Watson and other people that were involved in that and they had published these books that were incredible books. I mean Watson went on to publish a book called 'Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality.' He published that in 1968.   Jeff: Then somebody came along a man named John Allegro came and published a book called 'Sacred Mushroom and the Cross,' which talked about mushrooms in early Christianity. So, Mason, listen, think about it for a second. In 1968 two books are published. One says that a mushroom is at the root of Christianity. The other one says a mushroom is at the root of the Hindu religion.   Jeff: And then all of a sudden from there it just... You get going forward and you find that mushrooms, you see symbols of them and you start to hear stories about them used through all sorts of different groups throughout history. Pre-history actually, because as that came out people started looking and discovering this. That was really part of my study in university because I was studying anthropology. And mycology on the side.   Jeff: Going into the 70s in Olympia, Washington where I lived and worked on this big mushroom farm there was a whole core of people that were interested in mushrooms. It was an amazing group of people. Paul Stamos is one of those people. Ultimately he and I wrote the book called 'The Mushroom Cultivator' in 1983. We even had a group. We had four people, Paul and I and two other people, where we had four different mushroom conferences. These conferences were so ... You would have enjoyed it so much. We had people there that were speaking about how to identify mushrooms. I was speaking on cultivation of mushrooms, speaking on the anthropological aspect of mushrooms. We had great people there speaking. There was Andre Wyle was at our conferences. And it was just a great time had by everybody, right? You can imagine. All these mushroom people coming together. 200 people coming together for a weekend. Amazing.   Mason: So good. I mean, it's different, you got this original crew, there's always something special when you've got the original crew.   Jeff: Yeah.   Mason: There's a medicinal mushroom symposium every year that moves around the world. It was in Colombia a couple of years ago and then in Italy. Do you know that one?   Jeff: You're actually talking about the International Medicinal Mushroom --   Mason: Conference?   Jeff: Society IMMS and you know what? And that was more of a scientific group that was formed much later. I know the principles of the group. It started somewhere around 1999. They're having a conference in China on the 18th of September this year. You should come. I'm gonna be over there at this conference. I know lots of other people are gonna be there as well. It's gonna be an interesting time. I'm gonna be giving a paper there, which will be fun. There will be lots of other people too. I don't know what time of year you go to China.   Mason: Yeah, I go in September. I think this year we've got our staff retreat in September. I'm gonna check the dates, but otherwise I've been wanting to get along anyway. I've been trying to revolve it around going to Wudang mountain and doing some Taoist training as well. This is where I've been tossing up this year, what time to get over there. But that sounds a bit serendipitous.   Jeff: Yeah, well, the conference is I believe the 18th to the 22nd of September. That's normally kind of early for us. We like to go over more in November. We go every year. November's really harvest time for a lot of mushrooms like Shiitake, Maitaki, Wood ear. A little bit later is Hericium, Lion's mane. In September it's the Reishi harvest.   Mason: Yeah, Reishi harvest is normally for us in September. Where's your Lion's mane growing? Which region?   Jeff: It's growing in Fujian province.   Mason: Okay. Ours is a little bit earlier, in September as well. In Heilongjiang. In the northeast.   Jeff: Okay, yeah, because in Fujian province it is late, late November when it's quite cold. It's back to the mountains, quite cold. Maybe up in Heilongjiang it's colder in there right?   Mason: It's chilly.   Jeff: (laughs)   Mason: That's spoken like a true Australian.   Jeff: Let's fly in and start up north there and step off. I just can't wait to get to Yunan province.   Mason: (laughs)   Jeff: I can't wait to get down into that tropical vibe. Although, nothing beats that crisp air.   Jeff: Well that's good. I'm at that point where -- I don't know when your periods of this business growth have been -- but I've been real head down, bum up in the business. Not really been in that space of upgrading my information. Of course, I'm always reading and everything, doing all these things. I feel like that's like, you're at a point in your business where you are traveling around and you're educated. You're back at that point where you're free to go and educate and then go and educate yourself non-stop, constantly, which is really nice. I'm nearly back there.   Jeff: Yeah, you know what it's like. We are so swamped right now. We've got so much demand for the product right now. We're growing and over the past two years we've hired four people, two people for lab and another person for regulatory and, can you imagine, we've got one person that's strictly regulatory affairs and deals with all the paperwork that we have to deal with. The paperwork is really monumental. We get forms from companies that are 220 questions!   Mason: Companies that you're doing business with and they wanna know, looking at purity or is it you getting stocked with them that they want all those questions answered?   Jeff: No, they qualify their suppliers. And so this is all about GMPs for the most part and how your product is manufactured. They want to know that everything is according to the GMP, quality, and the standard operating procedures and all the rest.   Mason: I think that's where Real Mushrooms. Was it your son that created Real Mushrooms?   Jeff: Real Mushrooms, yeah. Sky created Real Mushrooms in 2015 as part of NAMMAX so it's just one division of the company. He runs Real Mushrooms as well as other things because he's in training to allow me to go fishing and he can stay and do all the work.   Mason: Great. NAMMAX is providing more providing bulk for people that are putting it into products and stuff?   Jeff: We're a business to business. We sell the raw materials and then Real Mushrooms is retail products and mostly sold online. Maybe getting it into the stores at some point, but right now an online business. But we're business to business where we sell to companies that then put the raw materials out under their own brand.   Mason: Does NAMMAX do... I'm increasingly aware because I think NAMMAX... we get a lot of people asking at SuperFeast but we don't really specialize in that B2B space. But one thing I want to talk a little bit about later is a lot of people who, like NAMMAX has bridged it and made it really accessible. Especially with you and the middlemen not having to deal straight with trying to... I'm still appreciating, it took me quite a few years but you'd know the in's and out's beyond what it's like developing relationships, critiquing, getting the authenticity on the testing. Also developing a relationship based on integrity and qualifying on that level takes so long. I feel like NAMMAX has really made it possible.   Mason: I know a lot of people in Australia who are like "Ah, great, I can just go and NAMMAX can just do it all for me." Which is really great, because there's a lot of people. I like it because there's a lot of people jumping onto the bandwagon, and Australia has got this nice buffer. We don't have too much shit here, which is really good. And that's something that's nice for me to be able to say about my competitors as well. Australian community doesn't need to be as wary, I think, as the U.S. world because the U.S. is a bit...I didn't realize it's a shit fight. I know talking to you a lot back in the day, I don't think I presented that I was from SuperFeast. We were just talking about mushrooms and I was just learning a bunch off you and learning about your history.   Mason: As a company when I started out it was an absolute no-brainer that we weren't gonna use fillers, that I wasn't going to be using mycelium product myself. We'll talk about that, it has its place. Of course, growing on good-quality wood. In Australia we're just small companies. I started in Mum's spare room getting products for me and Mum. Then talking to you I was like... and then reading your blogs and really falling off the back of it just like that. Wow, because you actually really inspired me after that talk going, "Well of course, I do talk about the fact that we don't use fillers and we don't grow on grains." And all these kinds of things, but it was getting to that point I didn't realize people really needed to know the in's and out's of your product and be able to ...   Mason: After seeing what happened in America with how much trickery there is and the percentages of polysaccharides there is, lets' go into it a little bit now. You've been watching it and been the internal watchdog of the industry, which I really like. When did that first start cropping up? When did people start jumping on the mushroom bandwagon and fibbing about the levels of polysaccharides and active ingredients?   Jeff: The interesting thing was that having been in the supplement industry since 1989, the key thing for me was that I was a mushroom grower by trade. So i spent ten years as a commercial mushroom grower on a very big, big farm. Not a hobbyist growing in my basement or a closet or something like this. A commercial mushroom grower, large farm. Millions of pounds of mushrooms every year. So I knew how it all worked, I knew the economics of it all. I realized back in the late 90s, for example. Or even the early 90s that you couldn't actually produce mushrooms in North America and turn them into a supplement, because it's a dry powder it's not a fresh product. Once you dry that thing out it's 90% water you gonna get ten times as much money for that pound of mushrooms. It doesn't work in the supplement world.   Jeff: That's where going to China and I went to farms, I went to factories, I went to research institutes, I went to conferences. The 90s was just amazing to see what was going on. I went north to south, east to west. Yunan province all the way up to Jilin province. It was all over China seeing this industry and seeing the research. One of the things, you talked a bit earlier about quality how do you know. Here I am visiting these companies going to all of these conferences. I'm having people coming up to me all the time saying, "Will you buy my product? Here it is." And they just show me a brown powder and I'm just like, it's a brown powder, I don't know what it is! How can I really know what that is. And then getting to know companies and people that were genuine and you could go to their factories and see what they were doing. Especially if they were only producing mushroom products and then building the relationships to that.   Jeff: Then I turned around and back in the United States here are these companies that come along and they start to produce mycelium on sterile grain. The worst part about it is they sell it as a mushroom.   Mason: Some people might not know what, so, we're talking about the fact, which you alluded to, which I completely agree with, that the only way to make a viable super high-quality product that's a powder is doing it in China. Based on the fact that, say you have 10 or 20 kilos worth of raw product that's gonna then give you a kilo of the powdered product in the end, it's not viable in the U.S. so to make it viable in the U.S., the way it generally works is that it's grown on a grain substrate, like rice, brown rice, oats, this kind of thing.   Jeff: Yeah, and the thing is, what people need to understand is that a mushroom is just one part of this fungal organism. So the other parts would be a spore, the spore germinates in to a fine filament, those filaments come together, they create mycelium, which is the actual body of the fungus. Which normally if you're out there hunting mushrooms you never see that because it's in the ground or it's in the wood. So most people are unaware of that. But that mycelial network amasses nutrients. When the conditions are right it produces the mushroom. That's what we see because up it comes and it's like "Wow, look at that thing there!" And then that matures, it produces spores, and then we have a complete life cycle.   Jeff: The interesting part, Mason, is that growing mycelium, which is the vegetative part of this organism, on sterile grain as a mushroom grower, what that is and what that was developed as mushroom spawn. Which is like the seed that is used to grow mushrooms. Because mushrooms don't have seeds they have spores. You don't plant spores when you grow mushrooms, you plant live mycelium. The mushroom growing world, what they developed is "Okay, we'll take that live mycelium and we'll put it onto some kind of a carrier. Then that carrier we can spread into our compost or whatever it was that they're growing their mushrooms in. If you take a gallon of grain, you've got maybe thousands of grains in there you coat that with mycelium, and then you take those thousands of grains and you can mix them into a big pile of straw or compost or something. Each one of those mycelium grows off of and it grows into this thing. So that myceliated grain actually was developed in the 1930s as mushroom spawn or essentially seed to grow mushroom.   Jeff: It's an easy process, it's done in a lab and people in the United States, we can't grow mushrooms. Why don't we just take that process, we'll grow out the mycelium. Mycelium in and of itself it's got beneficial properties because it is a fungal hyphae that has beta glucans in its cell walls. If you grow it in a certain way like in liquid or something it can produce certain medicinal compounds. But when you grow it on grain and then you don't separate it out from the grain at the end of the process you end up with mostly grain powder. That's what companies started to do. They started to grow the mycelium on grain. At the end of the process they would dry it -- just like you're drying a mushroom, but -- they'd dry it, they would grind it to a powder. No mushroom there at all. No mushroom, it's just myceliated grain, and it's mostly the grain powder. Finally, the worst part about it is then they call it mushroom when they sell it.   Mason: I definitely know I've been surprised, because my first trip to the States I went and bought all the different brands. I was floored by some of the grainy non-mushroom powder that I was buying. That was like white powder, it's in your face.   Jeff: Yeah, white powder and you taste it and you're like, "How's it supposed to taste like mushroom? It tastes kind of like flour."   Mason: Yeah, it's like flour, sawdust. So are there companies doing a mycelial growth that are more on the ethical spectrum, that they're not doing a full grain wash and that they're growing on a particular grain that they're able to separate out a lot of the mycelium? I know that a lot of the mycelium is embodied grain. That's just a reality that you're not gonna be able to get rid of. But I'm trying to play that... is that possible in your experience?   Jeff: In China they grow mycelium in large tanks of liquid.   Mason: Like Cs-4 Cordycep, yeah.   Jeff: Yeah, Cs-4 Cordyceps. They've been doing that for 50 years. But the thing is that it takes a lot of money to put in a big facility that can grow and these tanks are huge and you have to have a steam generator. It's a big investment but to actually grow out the mycelium on sterilized grain does not take a lot of money, it doesn't take a lot of expertise. It's a very simple process. Anybody can do it. In my book that I published in 1983, it tells you how to manufacture mycelium on grain at home in your kitchen. It's not difficult so it's very easy and ultimately, the stuff is so cheap to produce. And these people are selling it as mushroom and making a fortune doing it. It's really immoral in my opinion, and unethical. And especially if you're calling it mushroom.   Mason: I think because we sometimes maybe look at the market and what we subconsciously are looking for when we want a mushroom and most of the studies have been on if you're like... Most of the time we're looking for a fruiting body. That's the mushroom. It's the unspoken that we know that we're talking about is the fruiting body there? And I guess there are some companies that have been quite averse or trying to sign typically validate the mycelium. When I was first kicking around all this there were people going "Look, just have it all. Have the fruiting body, have the mycelium, have all these..." and I very quickly, before I had a company was like "Mmm, no." I'm not in this to justify a particular aspect of the market or go for ease. I'm in it personally, and especially in the beginning, being a dreadful romantic, trying to connect to a herbal system, particularly Taoist tonic herbalism for me.   Jeff: Exactly. The people who grow those products and they say "Oh, we want to have all parts of this. We want to have the spore, we want to have the mushroom, we want to have the mycelium." It's like they say "It's full spectrum." Well, the problem is that they leave out the fact that (A) there is no mushroom in it, and (B) the grain! How can it be a full spectrum product if they've got all of this grain in the product? That's what they don't like to talk about. They don't like to talk about the fact that it's mostly grain and all of this other stuff about "Oh, you know, the fruit body's in there and the spore's in there." Absolutely not. It's really a lot of smoke and mirrors.   Jeff: That's what's so hard to take is that when there are people out there actually espousing that and claiming that they've got a full spectrum product when in fact it doesn't take much in the way of analysis to prove what they do and they don't have. We've run analysis and what's really interesting is if you analyze it, for example, with a proximate analysis, which is proteins, carbohydrates, fats, ash, minerals. Those products line up perfectly with the grain they're grown on.   Mason: Are there exceptions to that?   Jeff: No. All of these products and there, it's the myceliated grain products. If it's grown on brown rice it lines up with brown rice. If it's grown on oats it lines up with oats. Literally the two lines run together. The way I like to think about it too is I talk to people and I tell them what they're growing is tempeh. And they say what tempeh is, it is cooked soybeans with fungal mycelium grown on it. If you look at that tempeh and it's all white that's the mycelium but if you look at tempeh and you cut it open you can see it's mostly the soybeans. And if you were to dry it out, look, Mason, mycelium is 90% water. Just like a mushroom. The soybeans are 50% water. When you dry that tempeh out the mycelium just goes "Fffft!" Just tell me, where's the mycelium? And you've got all of these dried soybeans and you're like, well, it's mostly dried soybeans, that product.   Mason: I'm sure you get it a lot as well. Yours, there's obviously a few brands in the U.S. becoming more aware of the others. I didn't go looking for them but as you move into a market. SuperFeast, I spoke to you about it the other day. We've got so many people ... like [inaudible 00:29:50] story. I've realized in business a lot of the time it's like, same with you, I like the people. I like the unique stories. People are like "Bring SuperFeast over, there's no one doing that like what you're doing over there!" I like, yeah.   Jeff: (laughs)   Mason: And it's the same. When you're upfront about the nuances although there's a lot of companies doing medicinal mushrooms like yourself and Taoist herbs like us, medicinal mushrooms. There's nuances there and the sourcing and there's nuances in the story. What I like is, which is going to get to the polysaccharide claim, and the full spectrum claim for the people growing the mycelium. Because people are in an egoic, competitive make money mentality a lot of the time. They think they have to be everything to everyone. Versus just being very upfront. I'm always quite upfront, I don't really look at that. I don't try and standardize color or anything in any way. I don't try and standardize the constituents. I don't even sell on the percentages of constituents. I don't focus on it. I'll move more in that direction because more and more people want to be satiated. I can say yes, we test for percentages of the active ingredients to ensure that they're in alignment with the Chinese cornucopia and ensure that they're actually active. And all that kind of stuff.   Mason: But going over into the States now and hearing about all these other brands and I'm with you whenever it's growing on grain I can't get behind it. Not to be disrespectful, and I'm always trying to be really amicable in my talks. There's a place for it, but less and less can I find that place.   Jeff: And I understand what you're saying too because if a person is genuine. For example the herbalists, who are at an American Herbal AHG conference. These are people that want to provide good products, they want to provide a body of knowledge to help people. That's who you wanna be, that's who I wanna be. I'm not in this to make a lot of money. I'm not in this to build some big company and go Oh, gee, isn't this great? Because I'm selling $20 million a year of this or that. That does not excite me at all. That has no meaning for me. What has meaning for me is that I'm producing a quality product that I've been working on for years and I can tell you the product is what I say it is and I want it to help you. I want you to be able to take this product and feel confidence that you're getting what the Chinese have used in traditional Chinese medicine for thousands of years. That's what I want.   Jeff: I don't want to sell you something that is not what it really is and is a placebo and expect you to buy the product from me and I walk away going "I'm managing this great at my company. I'm making so much money and it's wonderful." No, I'm sorry, that's not me. I'm not interested. Those people turn me off. It's like the difference between being in a group of people that really understand mushrooms or herbs and being in a group of people that are just talking business and numbers and all that kind of stuff. And I don't give a shit about that.   Mason: Yeah. I think it's interesting. Watching your business I can see in the beginning it probably would've started out that everyone knew Jeff and knew your level of integrity and how you just wanted a good product. In that little circle it was like 'Great, we'll just go and get Jeff's product.' Then as you grow I think what you've done really well ... just to put it as an example of why I'm bringing this up, we're getting to this point where we're growing as a company where it's beyond Mason at the markets and everyone knows that Mason has the badass tonic herbs. Or people are coming along to the talks and all the health clique. We've started emerging.   Mason: I think you would've gone through this years ago when you emerged beyond the health clique. And it's very dramatically people aren't associating directly with you or the founder, it's the company. They don't even know or care who the founder is and therefore you need to have these things in place. We're getting to the point where everyone who's a SuperFeast customer is just like, "Yeah, we don't even care about organic, we know what you guys are doing," and we're going on that old philosophy and we're documenting that and there's all those other checks in place like independent testing for pesticides and metals and all that in place and available.   Mason: But it's getting to that point now where the people on the very outside... I still don't know if we're really gonna shift because I still personally don't care and I don't change my company for perception's sake. But you can see Wow, that organic would be really, really useful for those people on the outside. Or the testing to know what percentage of what's going on inside and being able to present that. I think we'll move in that direction. I think you've done that really well and really maintained the trust in the brand of course, and in yourself. But maintaining you there as the one that's rolling this along and not then just relying, you know, the organic certification or the percentages.   Mason: I think that's what I find really commendable, because most people then they rest on their laurels. Once they change over into, not standardizing but testing for minimum constituents like beta-glucans or organic. they then rest on that. Whereas that means nothing to me at all. Being able to talk to you I'm like, Yeah, because organic, I don't know what your take on that. I know there's some terrible organic products out there. Just the fact that we know we can go organic there's five different companies we can go to, so you just go and find the company that suits you. We can go with the company that's the hardest to jump through.   Mason: I won't go into the details of what's going on, why we're probably not going to go in that direction. For us there's so many little micro-farms that we're being nimble with whom we're working with. When we're beyond mushrooms we've got a lot of other herbs going on. We need to cut that farm out if they need to move on and do something else and we'll go and we've got that team to go around and constantly go and find these people. So every time we want to nimbly adapt and go down a different direction when someone's doing a little more traditionally than the other person, all right, get the organic certify up. Or lie, which is what I think a lot of people are doing. They get the organic certification, then when they change up those little farmers, because we're dealing with independent farmers as well, not a company that can provide the organic certification. I don't know why I went on that rant. So that's why we're not going on down that route.   Mason: It's something I see. I know there's a bunch of companies who are coming to NAMMAX, which I think is just been so good for the Australian industry. For people to know that they're very quickly going to be introducing a really good quality. You can tick off the organic but I hate it when it's just organic that they are going for and not just an incredible product with a story behind it as well. So I really commend you for offering that out.   Jeff: I've always really believed in chemical-free food. Organic is more than just chemical-free it's how it's grown. When you're growing out of soil it's building the soil and not just depleting it. For me organics is a holistic way of looking at things. I've always considered that to be very important and I support that type of agriculture no matter what it is. A lot of these companies that are producing myceliated grain, they're organically certified!   Jeff: It doesn't necessarily mean that it's going to be a great product. These companies have what I call all sorts of merit badges. 'We're big and we're organic, we're kosher, we're this, we're that,' which ultimately means nothing at all. There's a lot more to it than just that. The one thing I really like about what you're doing too is that you're introducing the philosophy of it and that's something that you really believe in. That to me is important and that's what people look at. They look at who's behind the company and what that person has to say, is that person ethical, righteous, person or not. You're not up there as a smooth talking business salesman or anything like that, right?   Mason: You should see me try and sell something I don't like. I'm a bumbling mess. I think I told you that back in the markets people used to say god-made...you could sell ice to the Eskimos. But I'm terrible if I'm not talking about herbs or philosophy behind it.   Jeff: That's because you're doing something you believe in. That's where everybody should be. Not everybody has that opportunity, but if you can have that opportunity. I was lucky enough that I followed my passion and I didn't do that because I wanted to be rich. I did it because I loved it. I always say to people, if you really like to do something, whatever it is, just do it. Follow your passion. Maybe you're going to be poor for a long time. Make something that you feel good about.   Mason: Honestly, and I really mean it not just because you're on the podcast talking it up or trying to flatter you. But when I met you, you had a happy disposition to be in business that long. In the beginning I was trying to escape the business side of things. Quite scared about having a business and not coming out the other end alive. You have a sunny disposition and you still have control of your company and the standards and you're still educating about the same thing that you're educating, of course it's evolved, but you were educating about beforehand. And there's something that I've learned a bit about in that. There's something humbling and nice about not being in that pursuit for aggressive growth while still growing at a nice, sustainable rate. But staying true to what you were doing in the first place. I educate about basics of herbalism and medicinal mushrooms in the beginning and then I'll move on and doing other things. The more I go along the more I want to settle back into doing what I did all along.   Mason: I've got a weird thing about going back to the organic, I'll almost shy away from something if it's organic because I see it as a marketing ploy a lot of the time. And I think it is a lot of the time. With little things. When growing Lion's mane there's a lot of people who will use organic fungicide because they don't pick when they're watering out to the Lion's mane. I like to use this example because we don't have a plastic covering, it's just a straw and a hut to keep it nice and dark and it gets watered. That's the only part that gets watered. And one of the things I talked about in the beginning with Lion's mane, I just heard about it through the grapevine, that fungicide is needed if you're watering straw a lot of the time in order to, all right, we know why fungus grows. But found someone who wasn't doing that and found people who were doing organic Lion's mane who were using organic fungicide on the huts. Little things like that they get me so dejected about the marketing ploy behind it. But I think you're the one organic product that I would be over the moon to use.   Mason: And the other example is Ron Teeguarden. I think we talked about him. He was such a rogue in the industry herbally. You were telling me about the acupuncture when he was offering acupuncture because he's a barefoot herbalist and all the acupuncture's guilds are like "Screw you, you need to be regulated." And he's like "Hey."   Jeff: I know, it might've been somebody when you were in LA but it wasn't me. I don't know Ron that well. He's been around a long time. He's done his own thing, he's not out at the shows or anything like that. He's very well-known and in a sense he's been the herbalist to the stars. He's in Los Angeles, right? A lot of people in Los Angeles that are into herbal medicine and living properly in term of what they eat and things like that. They would go to Ron and Ron has one of the very first herb bars where you can walk in and have this type of a drink or that type of a drink. He was really in it very early and doing stuff that nobody else was. He was an outlier in that sense. I don't think he really needed to go into the industry proper. He's done a little more now that before. He didn't have to.   Mason: He, on the level of sourcing philosophy. I bumped into him years ago. I was at that place where I was starting to grow, people are asking why I'm getting my herbs from China and people asking me if I'm organic and all these kinds of things. I want to keep on doubling down on my philosophy, what I'm doing here. One thing that I drew from yourself as well and then be proactive and educating the market. Not in pushing your own product, just generally being happy about the market being educated as well. And Ron was like...In fact I talked with him for about five minutes. More or less he was like "Listen, if you have that spark," I remember, "do not deviate from that sourcing philosophy." And it really stuck with me and from that day I did. I doubled down and I was not going to try and... I'm going to continue to not worry about what's going on and just do me. It's a lot of fun. I was at Dragon Herbs Tonic Bar about three weeks ago. I frequent the Hollywood one when I'm in L.A.   Mason: Before we go too far off the mycelium grown, one of the things you've really educated, not only the market, but businesses in the market around medicinal mushrooms in the market, is how to identify a true polysaccharide read on medicinal mushrooms. Rather than people including 60% polysaccharides or even 30%, yet when you go down into the class of beta-glucan it's actually been tested you've been hoodwinked and they've gone dry from age or whatever. Can you talk a little bit about that?   Jeff: This is something in the herbal industry too that you learn right away, and I learned it back in the 90s, was that so many herbal extracts, when you make the extract they oftentimes need some kind of a stabilizer. Otherwise they can get gummy, they can jut come together if it's a powder. Putting a carrier with a lot of extracts was pretty common. What happened was sometimes companies would cheat a little bit. The next thing you know instead of 10% carrier it was 50% carrier or 80% carrier. And they're not revealing that to anybody. You think you're getting an herbal extract, not just mushroom extract, an herbal extract and it ends up being mostly maltodextrin or dextrose or something like that, and they're not telling you, then it is really deceptive. So there's a lot of companies that were doing that in the industry.   Jeff: As I went along, the whole time that I'm working with people in China I'm like, "Look, I want extracts where we aren't using any carriers. It has to be made in a certain way," because I'm looking for the pure essence. In traditional Chinese medicine they take the herbs and they throw it in a pot and they boil it up and pour it out and "Here, drink this!" There's no carriers in there.   Mason: That's right, not sliding agents.   Jeff: That's right. If you have to put something in a capsule you've got 150 milligrams of different types of fillers and binders and flow agents. Putting it into a pouch is so nice because then you don't have to put those things in with it. It's just the pure herb. Early on in the 90s everybody's testing for polysaccharides and nobody's testing for beta-glucans. And beta-glucan is a polysaccharide. Unfortunately all these carriers are polysaccharides too. A lot of people can hide that from you that you've got carriers on their product. No, no, we don't use carriers, it's 100% mushrooms, stuff like that. That's where with any kind of supplier you have to build up a level of trust. Like I say, they show you a brown powder and say. "Here's our product, it's shiitake mushroom extract. Isn't it great?" You can test it.   Jeff: This is the thing, Mason, it's not like you can take a mushroom product other than a reishi extract, consume it, and then a few hours later or a day later go, "Wow, yeah! Did I ever get a kick out of that!" No, it doesn't work that way. You can organoleptically, I can taste the shiitake extract and I can tell you yeah, that's definitely essence of shiitake. Or with reishi it's so bitter I can taste all those bitter notes in that reishi extract, that is an awesome extract.   Jeff: I used to give a reishi extract to a friend of mine who was a deep herbalist making his own liquid extracts and a big business ultimately. He'd taste some of my extracts in the beginning and he'd go, "Not bad, but it tastes a little bit burnt." And I'm like, "Oh shit." When it was dried it was maybe in the oven a little longer, and he could pick up on it. I thought that tastes pretty good. That was in the early days when I didn't know any better. I thought it's great and high triterpenes and all this. He'd go "Yeah, it tastes a little bit burnt." Those kind of things teach you a little bit about, okay, how's it made. Let me tell you, in the 90s the facilities that were making herbal extracts were nasty. They were old facilities   Mason: Not too much GMP regulation back in those days.   Jeff: It wasn't like stainless steel everywhere, no. Everywhere was dark from all the herbs they'd been cooking for who knows how many years. Now all that's been torn down and you see nothing but brand new factories in China. Everything is stainless steel and it's beautiful and there's none of that anymore. But back then, actually, it wasn't until we got the megazyme test and I started using that. And that was in 2012 or 2013. Up until that point I thought, well, the polysaccharide number was high, that's great. Then we starting testing the products and that's where we really pulled back the curtain. My main supplier, awesome! The test results we got from that. Beta-glucan and alpha-glucan and the alpha-glucan, that was where any of the carriers were revealed.   Jeff: And then another company that was supplying me with some products, only a few, not many, fortunately. And was swearing up and down they never used any carrier. Jesus, their alpha-glucan level was way up there. I was shocked and really upset because I thought their product was good because occasionally I'd test it for polysaccharides it was 50-60% and I was thinking, great product. I could taste it, it tasted okay. Nothing but mushrooms they were producing. But here they were. They were putting them on a carrier and telling me they weren't. That's the kind of thing that you face when you're over there.   Jeff: How do you qualify these products? You can go to the factory. They can show you around, you can look at all the mushrooms in their warehouse, you can look at them cooking these things up, the final products. They don't show you the bags and bags of maltodextrin that are hidden back in the warehouse somewhere that they're using as a carrier for the liquid extract. That literally pulled back the curtain and I went and confronted that with them. They claim no. Finally they actually admitted it and I'm like, okay, see you later. I'm not buying another product from you because you lied to me. Fortunately it was a secondary supplier. They weren't my main supplier at all, but I needed a secondary supplier. I visited them and it was all mushrooms that they were doing and they were in the heart of mushroom country and it was nothing but mushroom. Yet they had all these carriers in there. I was really upset not only with them but with myself because I got taken in by it too. And that's what you have to do.   Jeff: Look, Mason, have you ever been at Ali Baba and looked at all the mushroom products being sold?   Mason: It's always funny, and as you know, everyone's jumping onto the bandwagon right now. You can see people trawling through Ali Baba going "Oh, just tell me which one is awesome." I haven't been in there in a long time. I got curious, to be honest. I think we were in the office having afternoon drinks and seeing what was on Ali Baba. It is insane.   Jeff: It's totally insane. So many companies selling mushroom extracts. Sometimes they're selling at prices where you're like, "No, wait a minute, you can't sell me that extract for $20 for a 10:1 extract. That's impossible. You load it up with starch, that's quite possible, right? That's where analysis, for me, has been very helpful. Especially the beta-glucan analysis because that gives me that alpha-glucan which is the whole carrier. That's what unmasked all of those myceliated grain products. There's definitely a place for analysis. There's also a place for getting to know the grower. I don't believe in organic pesticides. I don't give a shit. Don't use whatever it is, you have to grow this. I know it's more difficult but you have to grow this without sprays and all that.   Jeff: The thing about China is that when you're traveling through China and I've been back in the mountains in all these different places and you go back and you look down and this little valley and here's this beautiful rice fields down there and you're going "Oh, isn't it great, back here. Everything's idyllic." And then you see somebody walking through the rice field and they've got a backpack sprayer. And they're going along spraying chemicals on this rice crop. I'm like, "Ugh, shit. Really? Do you have to do that?" And I think to myself, even the smallest growers out there are using some chemicals. That's where I'm like... And I want to be sure. And that's where we test and test to make sure that everything is staying on track because these things can slip in. Somebody can cheat. You have to ride herd on the whole thing. Otherwise it can slip right through your fingers.   Jeff: That's been good for me in the sense of having an organic product that has meant that we put these constraints on the people that we work with. We say look if your product shows one of these things in there I'm sorry we're not selling it. If you and if you shipped it over to us and we find it in there after you've done the testing that's all good and we find it in there it goes the landfill I'm sorry, we can't sell it. That has been a really good quality, that's how we keep that quality up. In that sense I kind of believe in it all and think it's important. It helps us keep the product a little bit more real.   Mason: As you say said there's all these things that can go by... even though it is organic, you can get organic pesticides and all this kind of stuff. I have taken your product and of course I really love it. You know that you're going to go that extra mile with it. It's a trip around it, there's a stigma around China is isn't that whole thing polluted?   Jeff: Well, that's the other side of it right now, Mason. People are so afraid of anything coming out of China that this gives them a little bit more confidence in it. They can say what they want about organic and all but we've got pesticide tests that can demonstrate what it is and of course the always have to do heavy metals and micros and all of that.   Mason: Alpha-toxins   Jeff: For us, especially as a raw material supplier to companies large and small we have to be able to give them confidence because you know they're selling a Chinese product that they buy from us and lot of people are just like you know when it comes to China it's like no no no no it's like not going to do it so I have to talk to a lot of people. And I say, well, hey look. There's products in the United States that are absolutely full of chemicals. So it doesn't matter where it's grown. It matters where it's grown but it's not this country or that country. You can grow good, clean products anywhere in the world if you're doing it properly.   Mason: It's so good. Of course people are realizing that the ultimate Chinese herbs and medicinal mushrooms are going to be coming out of China. I really like how it's still dominating and making it really easy for people to get One thing that's organic and Two very quickly have all those things to provide so enough people are going to be able to go, Oh, okay, so it's from China and we can trust it. That's something that makes it really easy, because people are going to jump on the mushroom bandwagon. We found it as well, a similar thing. People want to come, they're like okay, tell us about Chins. Okay, tested three times for pesticides before it comes to market, each batch. Plus here in Australia the TGA facility and heavy metals and alpha-toxins and microbes. At some point people go "Hmm, shit, okay." And testing of the water. And when we can going and doing radiation testing in the areas. And then going live and seeing pictures of you at your reishi farm is magic.   Mason: When I was going live around China going, you know we're still going up while we're outside the mountains going to the fields where the eucommia bark trees were grown or up in Yunnan. Just drove five hours in the middle of nowhere to get to the poria farm, where there's wild pine and people are going "Holy shit! Look at that land! The land of the dragon. It's calling me. It's real." All of a sudden popping that thing that first of all, yes, you just need to be vigilant, that's absolutely number one. I've only changed suppliers once. In the beginning I found someone I had really enjoyed their product. And then what I've decided was one of my areas in going forth is I need someone that could absolutely school me. If I'm requesting things and they weren't able to "bang" school me on that immediately, then I'm not going to be able to do business.   Mason: And it got to this point where I was confirming no municipal water. Only springs, only well water. Only creek water in the area. Nothing from the tap every touching the crops. At one point "Okay, sometimes that's a bit hard." I was like "All right, I'm gonna change now." That's when I started going down that route and ended up... developing relationships, developing a friendship first, understanding the intent behind the philosophy behind the business, understanding who owns the business that you're going to be dealing with and what their motives are and what their history is. These are the things where people don't realize what goes into it. People go "Can you tell me your supplier?" And you're like   Jeff: (laughs)   Mason: At this point it's not about me being scared about you having access to that supplier but so much has gone into this relationship. It's not just about finding someone and sourcing off them. Although, it's nice and easy to do that. If I was beginning right now I'd love to be buying just from suppliers on NAMMAX because it's cool. All the certificates, all the independents, and then all the years of vetting and tweaking that leads to this point where trust is inevitable and you become even more switched on to what to look for if anything ever comes up. If anything slips or changes you know the questions to ask and where the slip in quality could possibly be. And large ways you know how to put things in place that would stop that from ever happening to begin with. It's an interesting industry.   Jeff: We go there every year and we'll do an audit. We'll visit farms, the factory we'll be sure we confer with our partners to make sure everything is good. This year we're at the point where we're hiring someone to be on the ground in China that will do a lot of checking and stuff for us on a regular basis. More regular than us going over there once a year. It's gotten to a point where we really need that coverage of somebody right there that we can say "Can you go out to this farm or this factory?" Also, communications because sometimes communications... although some of our partners speak English but some of them not so well and then they have to use a go-between and that's not always the best. So we're gonna have somebody now that's right there in China and can do that for us. Can you imagine going to China and traveling around without having somebody with you to help you through the liaise and talk?   Mason: I have the best intentions of getting my Mandarin up to scratch and as soon as I'm out of it, it all slips out of my head. I haven't fully entered into that poetic language realm. The language is sticking. Can you speak Chinese?   Jeff: No, I speak Spanish, but Sky's learning Chinese. He has three classes a week, an hour each class with a Chinese speaker he does it over Zoom or something like that. He's very diligent about it. We get over there. He's speaking with them in Chinese and they love it. He's learning more, but unless you actually go and live somewhere for a while it's always tough. I've been thinking about it. You go over and spend two weeks, three weeks, whatever, then you leave. That's nothing in terms of really getting in and learning a language. That's swimming on the surface.   Mason: I gotta get onto it because I'm gonna do some Taoist training there.   Jeff: Yeah, that'd be really cool. You're young enough that you still can do that. I'm way beyond doing anything like that.   Mason: Come on, they'd love you up in the temple.   Jeff: Not only that, where I love to be is in Patagonia   Mason: Dude, that's the other place my heart lies, down in Patagonia. I want to become an old Argentinian man. I want to become a cowboy.   Jeff: Exactly, I know where we can get some horses, Mason, so let me know.   Mason: All right, that's it. That's on. China this year, maybe Patagonia next year.   Jeff: Yeah, two years ago Andrea and I went out and spent the day with, we had a gaucho that took us out. We went all over this one area. It was a hot day too. We were on horseback the whole time, cruising through, very slow. Slow living at its best, right?   Mason: Yeah, that's it. Drinking, eating a lot of meat, drinking a lot of yerba mate.   Jeff: Yeah, when you're on a horse you're not going to go very fast. You're going to cruise along. It's life in the slow lane.   Mason: I love it. So before we finish up is there anything that is coming up now that's exciting you about educating people about this market and about this industry with medicinal mushrooms?   Jeff: People really still need a lot of education with mushroom. Part of what I do too which I really like is I talk about the nutritional value of mushrooms. My thing too is eat mushrooms. I think mushrooms may be the missing link in terms of food. A lot of people are like, fungus, never eat it, right? And I'm like, "Dude, you've gotta get on and eat mushrooms, it's a fabulous food. They've got great benefits, you get medicinal benefits as well as nutritional benefits." That's the key for me, I'm pushing that really hard when I talk to people, saying "No, it's a fabulous food." And in China they have this whole thing of food is medicine.   Jeff: That's in Ancient Greece too. Food as your medicine. Everything that you take into your body should be something that is beneficial. And medicine as a very loose way in terms of it's feeding you and keeping you healthy. And that's what we should all be thinking about. What we consume is keeping us healthy and we should look at our food as that. That's providing me with all of these benefits. I say if you want a supplement, you feel you need more, that's great. You can supplement. But definitely use mushrooms for food. That's a big category for me.   Jeff: As a mushroom grower, can you imagine? I'm working on an agaricus farm. For ten years every day I'm going in I'm going through the rooms and each room ultimately is producing 20,000 pounds of mushrooms. There's mushrooms everywhere around me growing and I'm stoked. I love this. I've got mushrooms that I'm eating all the time. I've even got small beds of mushrooms that I bring stuff home and I'm growing them in my house because it's so interesting to me. The farm I was on it wasn't just an agaricus, we had a scientist that was growing shiitake and maikitake and oyster mushrooms. Back in the 70s when those weren't even on the markets anywhere. And I had access to these mushrooms. Besides the wild mushrooms that we were navigating. I'm like, make them part of your diet because it's a wonderful food.   Jeff: That's my message to people is this is a forgotten food, bring it home.   Mason: I love it so much. Thanks for reaching out, I really appreciate you reaching out and having you on here. It's not only do I admire you as a person, admire what you've done and your business. I spoke to you a little bit about it. I like talking to the other people who are perceived competitors. There's so much room in this market and everyone's doing their own thing and has their own story. This whole red ocean we have to fight over a scrap of people who are going to be buying mushrooms and not focusing on educating together is absolutely ridiculous. It's always awesome to meet people who trail-blazed that attitude in the industry. Calling out people that are bullshitting and then coming together and educating together and getting the world healthy together in our little way. There's something really nice about that that makes it possible to be in business for so much time, for so long, see so much shit yet still have such a positive attitude about it.   Jeff: That's absolutely right. I really love what you're doing too and I love the whole Taoist part of what you're taking to people and bringing to people. That philosophy is really awesome. That's what brings something really unique. When I hear you talking about mushrooms up around, what's the lake up there in the mountains?   Mason: Mumbai   Jeff: Yeah, that was so cool and you're hanging out there, talking about the mushrooms really excited about it all. That is really special. I love your energy, Mason, I'm really happy that we've been able to get together and have these meet-ups, speak and let's carry it on, let's keep doing it and stay in touch for sure.   Mason: Absolutely. We'll get some videos in another podcast together, 100%. I'll go check out these dates, see if I can swing a   Jeff: I'll send you the info on it so that you can check it out. If you can come you'll have a ball because there's gonna be lots of mushroom peop

Truth be told, I did not go super-niche with selling loose leaf tea. I became super-niche as a result of Australia's unique set of circumstances. To give a good example, I need to firstly give a disclaimer and let you know that you are welcome to believe or not to believe but the story I give next is true. No embellishments or special effects. I have a very good friend out in greater western Sydney who does tai chi quan and qi gong as part of his chirotherapy business. Right across from him, is a massive mixed martial arts gym and a couple of other smaller gyms, so business overall for him is good. Some of the guys that see him are the blokest you will ever meet; tradies and the like. When I visit him, we talk martial arts and family stuff. And drink coffee together before fixing my chi. What I like about him is that he actually know how to do chi manipulation. Real chi manipulation. Not that bullshido on the internet, where a master practices on a compliant disciple, and the visiting critic can poke holes through the event. Nah! My friend is a true-blue Aussie of Italian descent. And the guys from the MMA gym come to him to be fixed. I've seen grown browlers starting weeping as he goes, Peter watch this: “Wax off” the guy lying on the table can't move because his chi is blocked. And then “wax on”, he can move again when he unblocks his chi. And my friend hasn't even been to China yet. He is a true martial arts healer. Who's had to develop his chi through trial and error like me because, here, Australia does not have places like Shaolin or Wudang, or an ancient martial artist around every Chinese street corner. The wax on and wax off, isn't actual a technique per se. It's just joking around because we both have seen The Karate Kid movies from the 1980's. But like I said before. You do not have to believe a word of what I have said. If you can afford the plane ticket, pay my friend in Penrith a visit and experience it for yourself. Liked what you heard & want to connect with me? Join me at… linkedin.com/in/peterhainzl/

The Goddess of Mercy, Kuan Yin 觀音 transcends both Taoist and Buddhist belief. Hence the distinction between what is internal and what is external holds no meaning with regards to her. Oolong 烏龍茶 in general is the Chinese tea category in between black and green tea. Whether light or dark, this accidental black dragon has become its own thing. One does not need to believe in dragons or Kwan Yin to have an appreciation for Ti Kuan Yin Oolong 鐵觀音烏龍茶. The Wudang Mountains are in Northwest Hebei, China and is home to some of the most formidable martial arts collectively known as Wudang Quan 武當拳. All are dedicated to the Way - the Tao. And all are associated with the Chinese God of Martial Arts Xuan Wu 玄武. The symbolic relationship between the two gods is like fire and water. And the nearest Western equivalent is the old story of the policeman married to the nurse. Hence when one learns a martial art for fighting, one also learns it for healing. Which has sometimes been referred to as the Paradox of the Martial Arts. But there is no actual paradox. The paradox only exists in the minds of the one dimensional. A condition fueled these days by our need to live in a world of certainty. We want everything to be just so. And when it gets disturbed, we tend to react quite aggressively. Hence it can be quite a challenge to fully grasp the subtle complex taste and aroma of Ti Guan Yin Oolong 鐵觀音烏龍茶. Not everything martial can be taught by way of the fist, no matter how good the fighter. And money does not a fighter make. The great masters knew this. That is why they practiced kungfucha 功夫茶 alongside their Wudang martial art styles. These days in China, any martial art not associated with Buddhism and the Shaolin Monastery is generally referred to as Wudang Quan 武當拳. This isn't totally accurate. But then these distinctions get lost on those not familiar with real martial arts or real Ti Kuan Yin oolong. Liked what you heard & want to connect with me? Join me at… linkedin.com/in/peterhainzl/

Today, Wade is speaking with David Wei of Wudang West Cultural Heritage Center, a non-profit wellness ministry based in Oakland, California.   David Wei has a unique story. He started off as your average kid in the Bay Area but become so inspired by a certain western movie (can you guess?) that he went to the Wudang Mountains in China to study martial arts. After 20 years of studying, he returned to the Bay Area and was tasked by his master to start a Chinese cultural center — which is now the Wudang West Cultural Heritage Center. The center provides education in subjects like Chinese medicine, calligraphy, and of course: martial arts.   In this episode, David talks about the elements of Wudang West beyond the martial arts, how the cultural center has morphed and changed over the years David has been running it, how he was originally introduced to the martial arts and how sees it progressing in the future, and how training has impacted his life (especially in regard to his time spent in Wudang, China).   Key Takeaways: [:44] About Wade's guest today: David Wei. [1:51] Wade welcomes David to the podcast. [2:03] David explains the additional elements at Wudang West beyond martial arts. [5:51] How the cultural center has morphed and changed in the years David has been running it. [8:04] Why is Wudang West closed door? [12:42] The western influence that David has brought to Wudang West. [14:29] How David originally got into martial arts. [16:30] How David sees martial arts progressing in the future. [18:33] How David's training has impacted his life. [20:33] How to find out more information about David and Wudang West. [24:38] What else David would like listeners to know.   Mentioned in this Episode: David Wei Wudang West Cultural Heritage Center Liar's Poker, by Michael Lewis

In this episode Daniel interviews Johan Hausen, co-founder of the Purple Cloud Institute, about his time spent at the Five Immortals Temple in Wudang, founding his publishing company, the Purple Cloud Press, his first book about Confucian scholar and healer Wang Feng-Yi "Discourse on Transforming Inner Nature".

Tyrone Beverly on The MindMill Podcast Tyrone Beverly is an Entrepreneur and Unifier; Connecting Humans and Communities of Diverse Backgrounds through Yoga and Discussion. Todays episode is with Tyrone Beverly, and Im very excited to share his story with you. Tyrone is an entrepreneur, community leader, yoga teacher, family man, inspirer and unifier.  His extreme passion for equality, humans rights, unity, and physical and social health has kickstarted a wellness movement that unites communities and foster healthy lifestyles across the nation.  He is the founder and executive director of “I'm Unique”, a yoga program which combines elements of tai chi and eastern philosophy.  Tyrone brings his programs all over the country, focusing on bringing yoga and social unity to people of all ages, cultures, and socio-economic backgrounds.  Him and his team have conquered some amazing feats, including opening up dialogue between gang members and police officers through yoga, shared meals, and a safe space to communicate. https://youtu.be/0AeHYUBiJfU Tyrone finds his yoga venues in an array of places, from a cleared out section of a walmart to the Arise Music Festival, where I met him.  His class was so unique and empowering,  I had to invite him onto the show and get to know him better. Tyrone's story is fascinating, his mission noble, and his movement growing.  I'm honored to have Tyrone Beverly on this episode of the MindMill.  Be sure to stick around after the interview for Tyrone's reading of his “Poetic Flow”, a truly moving and powerful poem that encompasses the passion, integrity, and and connection to body and mind. Tyrone Beverly on The MindMill Podcast TYRONE BEVERLY BIO Beyond being the Founder and Executive Director of Im'Unique, Tyrone Beverly is a gifted and inspiring yoga instructor, bringing excitement and a higher purpose to every class. Mr. Beverly is one of the leading advocates for diverse inclusivity in yoga and has been teaching yoga for over 10 years. His extreme passion for equality, humans rights, unity, and physical and social health has kickstarted a wellness movement that unites communities and foster healthy lifestyles across the nation. Both internationally and nationally known, Tyrone has touched global communities by successfully taking his health initiative to locations such as the Ragamuffin Summer Camp in Settlement, Jamaica and Wudang, China. His enthusiasm and energy for quality of life for all continues to increase active participants—drawing those of all ages, cultures, and socio-economic backgrounds. His efforts supersede stereotypes and create avenues that permeate social and cultural barriers from a health perspective. Thus, Beverly's life work epitomizes his vision of a future with more problem solvers and solution based thinkers, that are equipped to deal with the historical and systematic challenges we face as a society. He reminds us that we all have the power to improve our lives and contribute to positive change. CONNECT WITH TYRONE I'm Unique Website Instagram Facebook Tyrone Beverly on The MindMill Podcast [hr] Thanks so much for listening to The MindMill Podcast! For all MindMill Episodes Click Here!  Support The MindMill Podcast. LEAVE A REVIEW!

In our first Star Crossed Story Time, Morgan Ellis and Andy Munich tell the story of their wuxia-inspired romance between members of the Xiaolin and Wudang schools.

La fuerza del equipo, desde la acción del Taijiquan por Juan Carlos Serrato, en el Congreso Expocoaching, que tuvo lugar los días 25, 26 y 27 de abril de 2014 en Madrid. ---------------------------------------­---------------------------------------- JUAN CARLOS SERRATO. Es uno de los maestros de artes marciales chinas de mayor prestigio a nivel mundial. U?nico Profesor Occidental de Wudang Taiji- quan, Autorizado por el Abad Zhong Yun Long del Templo de Wudang Shan-China. La Escuela Superior Wudao que preside, ha sido nombrada por la Asociacio?n de Taoi?smo y Wushu del Templo de Wudang, como repre- sentante en Espan?a del Wushu de Wudang en todos sus aspectos. Diplomado por el Templo de Shaoli?n Henan, Chi- na, 1994. Titulado por las Universidades de Educacio?n Fi?sica de Beijing y la de Educacio?n Fi?sica de Wuhan Hubei. Formador de profesores en varios centros nacionales, ma?s de 17 an?os formando deportistas, monitores y profesionales en Espan?a. Instructor de defensa personal en empresas privadas de seguridad. ---------------------------------------­---------------------------------------- http://www.expocoaching.net/ http://www.mindalia.com - La Red Social de Ayuda a través del Pensamiento Los videos de esta y otras conferencias y entrevistas de interés en http://www.mindaliatelevision.com Puedes escuchar este y otros audios en http://mindaliacomradio.ivoox.com

La fuerza del equipo, desde la acción del Taijiquan por Juan Carlos Serrato, en el Congreso Expocoaching, que tuvo lugar los días 25, 26 y 27 de abril de 2014 en Madrid. ---------------------------------------­---------------------------------------- JUAN CARLOS SERRATO. Es uno de los maestros de artes marciales chinas de mayor prestigio a nivel mundial. U?nico Profesor Occidental de Wudang Taiji- quan, Autorizado por el Abad Zhong Yun Long del Templo de Wudang Shan-China. La Escuela Superior Wudao que preside, ha sido nombrada por la Asociacio?n de Taoi?smo y Wushu del Templo de Wudang, como repre- sentante en Espan?a del Wushu de Wudang en todos sus aspectos. Diplomado por el Templo de Shaoli?n Henan, Chi- na, 1994. Titulado por las Universidades de Educacio?n Fi?sica de Beijing y la de Educacio?n Fi?sica de Wuhan Hubei. Formador de profesores en varios centros nacionales, ma?s de 17 an?os formando deportistas, monitores y profesionales en Espan?a. Instructor de defensa personal en empresas privadas de seguridad. ---------------------------------------­---------------------------------------- http://www.expocoaching.net/ http://www.mindalia.com - La Red Social de Ayuda a través del Pensamiento Los videos de esta y otras conferencias y entrevistas de interés en http://www.mindaliatelevision.com Puedes escuchar este y otros audios en http://mindaliacomradio.ivoox.com

Instructor Michael A. Vollero, is a 26th generation Longmen Pai (Dragon Gate Sect) disciple, 16th generation Sanfeng Pai instructor, and student of Zhengyi Daoism. He makes yearly pilgrimages to the Wudang mountains of China to study Kung Fu with the Taoist monks and participate in the ceremonies and rituals at the Purple Heaven Palace. In this interview with discuss his training regimen and what lead him down his path in Wudang Kung Fu. Discover the differences between kung fu lineage and Taoist lineage and how these disciplines are intertwined. Michael speaks of the principles of Taoist kung fu training and how they have changed or been preserved through the cultural revolution in China. He also describes the Wudang training facility and where its influences have come from over the years and the concept of "Cloud Walking". You can find out more about Michael's instructor's school of Wudang Kung Fu in Boston at: http://www.daoistgate.com And check out Michael's own kung fu class website: http://www.springandautumn.com