Experience the transformative power behind Dao Gong’s gentle movements. When practiced with intention, you’ll feel a difference in your body almost immediately.

• Cultivate qi and whole body harmony to level up your health, have more energy, and move more freely. Whether you consider yourself healthy or are struggling with a condition that you’d like to improve, Dao Gong can help you optimize your health.
• Relax into a sense of peace and calm with the mindfulness of Dao Gong. Unlike other practices where it feels like you have to concentrate really hard to get the moves right, Dao Gong allows you to relax and enjoy yourself. You’ll look forward to this rejuvenating practice. 
• Reconnect to joy and vitality. At its core, Dao Gong is about feeling good in your body and celebrating life every time you move.

Dao Gong empowers you to take command of your health and restore balance in your body, mind, and spirit.

Meet Your Shifu (Teacher)

Hi, I’m David Wei, founder of Wudang West Cultural Heritage Center. Our mission is to help people cultivate good health in body, mind and spirit.

I grew up in a rough neighborhood and started learning martial arts to defend myself. As I deepened my practice, I discovered that the same movements used to harm someone could also be used for healing when applied with the right intention.

This inspired me to travel to Wudang Mountain in China, considered to be the sacred origin of Daoism. I joined a Taoist temple and became a monk. For five years, I trained 10 to 12 hours a day. As I became stronger, fitter, faster and healthier, I observed my loved ones become weaker and unhealthier each time I came back home to visit.

As a result, I returned to California and established the Wudang West Cultural Heritage Center. I wanted to bring the mystic and mysterious practices from the mountain to you, and make them accessible and fun so that you practice regularly for good health and a good life. I am grateful for the opportunity to share these ancient Daoist wellness traditions with you.

Module 1: Earth Sequence

It’s said that, Kung fu starts in the feet. And so does good health! In martial arts, the foundation of strength begins with your lower body. This leads to strong roots from which everything else follows. In Dao Gong’s Earth Sequence, you’ll build a solid foundation so that every one of your movements is optimized for strength, health, energy, and balance.

Here’s What You’ll Learn in Module 1:

• 7 exercises to create a strong foundation: Start from the earth, working up from your feet, through the knees, and up to your hips. This series of exercises is beneficial for joints, balance, coordination, flexibility, and helping with pain relief for the feet, knees, hips, and lower back.
• Butterfly Knees: Don’t be fooled by the delicate name of this gentle Dao Gong movement. Butterfly Knees is a powerhouse movement to strengthen the knees, open up the hips, improve elimination, libido, hormone health, boost the lymphatic and immune functions of the body, and much more.
• Stirring the Cauldron: Alleviate pain and stiffness in your lower back with this Dao Gong movement to increase flexibility and gently stretch your back.

The PDFs for the Dao Gong Celebration Journal, Practice Guide, and the Dao Gong Guidebook section for earth sequence movements will be available when you enroll. 

Module 2: Heaven Sequence

In Dao Gong’s Heaven Sequence, you’ll learn movements for strength, stress, stiffness, rejuvenation and regulating the body’s functions.

Here’s What You’ll Learn in Module 2:

• Phoenix Rising: This calming and restful Dao Gong movement is recommended for high blood pressure, stress relief, anxiety, thyroid regulation, and a whole body reset.
• Polishing the Turtle Shell: A soothing movement that’s good for cultivating qi to recharge your life force energy
• Flower Fingers: If you work at a computer a lot or have carpal tunnel syndrome, the 5 variations of Flower Fingers' gentle stretching movements help clear energy blocks that cause pain. But it’s not just for the hands and wrists! This movement also supports the body’s lung, large intestine, heart, and small intestine meridians too.
• The Rooster Crow: No crowing involved! But it will be fun to practice this movement that is beneficial for stiff neck, shoulder pain, jaw tightness, grinding teeth, and more.

This module's videos and guidebook PDF will be released on June 1st, after completion of the earth sequence.

Module 3: Harmony Sequence

This module is about harmony and integration to engage your body from head to toe for full body holistic wellbeing. You’ll activate and integrate rejuvenating life force energy into your body, and outward into your life and community. As you feel better and better, you’ll cultivate gratitude for health and healing, and amplify your good feelings into the world.

Here’s What You’ll Learn in Module 3:

• 4 Walking Movements: Practicing Dao Gong can be as simple as walking from one room in your home to another. Imagine rejuvenating your qi as you wake up in the morning and stroll to the bathroom. It’s that easy to integrate qi-activating movements into your day!
• Ancient Gingko Trees Swaying in the Wind: Practice this Dao Gong movement for full body harmony
• Swimming Seaweed: This gentle motion—like seaweed swaying in the ocean—is a student favorite! It’s very pleasant to do, and also very potent. Swimming Seaweed is used to relieve stress, and calm and settle your mind. It anchors the mind and body like seaweed anchored to the ocean floor, flowing with the current.
• Advanced Qi Shower: Dive deeper into the secret intentions behind the Qi Shower. If you don’t have time to do any other Dao Gong activity, this is the ONE to practice as often as you can to cleanse and activate your body’s life force.

This module's videos and the full guidebook PDF will be released on June 8th, after completion of the heaven sequence.