Hunyuan
Martial Arts Academy
of San Jose
WELCOME TO HUNYUAN TAIJI
Feng Xiuqian
Grandmaster Feng Zhiqiang
Recent Qigong Workshops
with visiting Master
Feng Xiuqian from Beijing
February 19-20, 2011 in Madison, Wisconsin
February 25-27, 2011
in St. Louis, Wisconsin
March 5, 2011
Berkeley, California
Read the Examiner.com Interview with Xiuqian
Hunyuan Taijiquan is an abbreviation for Chen Shi Xinyi Hunyuan Taijiquan. As the full name indicates, it is a taiji style based on the original Chen system but incorporating elements of Xinyi Quan as well as traditional internal “gong” exercises for building health and power.
Hunyuan Taijiquan, whose name reflects the fundamental principle underlying the movement of all things, is the outcome of the unique martial arts education of Grandmaster Feng Zhiqiang, regarded by many as the greatest living taiji master. More About Hunyun Taiji
Michael Dorgan
Director - Hunyuan Martial Arts Academy of San Jose
Chen Xiang
ABOUT HUNYUAN TAIJI
Hu Yaozhen
Chen Fa Ke
Hunyuan Taijiquan is an abbreviation for Chen Shi Xinyi Hunyuan Taijiquan. As the full name indicates, it is a taiji style based on the original Chen system but incorporating elements of Xinyi Quan as well as traditional internal “gong” exercises for building health and power.
Hunyuan taijiquan, whose name reflects the fundamental principle underlying the movement of all things, is the outcome of the unique martial arts education of Grandmaster Feng Zhiqiang, regarded by many as the greatest living taiji master.
Feng is an 18th-generation grandmaster of Chen Style Taijiquan and the creator of the Hunyuan taiji system. He is a board member of the China Martial Arts Association, advisor to the Beijing Municipal Martial Arts Association, chairman of the Beijing Chen Style Taijiquan Research Association and president of the Feng Zhiqiang Martial Arts Academy.
Born in 1928, Feng was a top student in Beijing of both Chen Fa Ke, the standard bearer of Chen Taiji, and Hu Yaozhen, a Xinyi master and doctor of traditional Chinese medicine who often is referred to as the father of modern Chinese qigong.
Hunyuan taiji is a complete martial arts system that simultaneously develops a self-defense capability while building a healthy body, calm mind and strong spirit. The above-mentioned internal gong exercises serve as a foundation, but Hunyuan taiji also includes training in forms, push hands, sparring and traditional weapons.
While designed for both health and self-defense, Hunyuan focuses on health; while alternating between movement and stillness, it emphasizes stillness; and while simultaneously training the internal and the external, it gives priority to the internal. Grandmaster Feng teaches that the internal and external should be coordinated, the upper and lower body should follow each other, and the whole body should move in harmony.
Qigong Workshops with Master Feng Xiuqian
About Qigong Ι About Feng Xiuqian
Master Feng Xiuqian Master Feng Xiuqian, daughter of Grandmaster Feng Zhiqiang, and Michael Dorgan recently completed a series of successful Hunyuan Qigong and Taiji workshops in the Midwest and California.
Our special thanks to Dr. Kathleen Dorgan in Madison, WI; to Justin Meehan, Jim Gera and Herb Parran in St. Louis, MO; to Michelle Dwyer in Berkeley, CA, and to Bryant Fong in San Francisco, CA, for helping organize the workshops.
Read the Examiner.com Interview with Xiuqian
Below are a few photos from workshops in St. Louis, MO, and Berkeley, CA.
Below: Berkeley, California, Workshop, March 5, 2011
Above: Berkeley, California, Workshop, March 5, 2011
Below: St. Louis, California, Workshops, February 25-27, 2011
Above: St. Louis, California, Workshops, February 25-27, 2011
Master Feng Xiuqian with Michael Dorgan
in Tiantan Park, Beijing
About Qigong
Qigong is an ancient Chinese exercise system for gathering, nurturing and cultivating the vital energy called qi, or chi. The exercises combine graceful, gentle movements with mind intent and breath to relax the body and mind and facilitate the balanced flow of energy and blood throughout the body, thereby improving health and increasing overall vitality. The exercises are a core component of training in such “internal” martial arts as taijiquan and baguaquan, but also are widely practiced purely for health benefits.
About Master Feng Xiuqian
Master Feng Xiuqian: a resident of Beijing, is the daughter of Grandmaster Feng Zhiqiang, widely regarded as one of the greatest living taiji masters. Xiuqian has a deep and detailed knowledge of the Hunyuan taiji system created by her father that blends traditional Chen-style taiji with XinyiQuan and qigong. She is vice-secretary general of the Chen-style TaijiQuan Research Association and an instructor at the Feng Zhiqiang Martial Arts Academy.
ABOUT US
Michael Dorgan with Grandmaster Feng
The Hunyuan Martial Arts Academy of San Jose was founded and is operated by Michael Dorgan, a lineage disciple of Grandmaster Feng Zhiqiang.
Dorgan began studying Asian martial arts as a teenager, first Okinawan karate and then Korean Tae Kwon Do before moving on to Chinese styles in the late 1970s. He trained in Northern Shaolin, Xinqyi Quan and Yang Style Taijiquan with Master Wong Jack Man in San Francisco from 1978-1984, and studied Liu He Xinyi Quan with Master George Xu from 1984-1990. For about six years in the early 1990s, he studied Chen Shi Xingyi Hunyuan Taijiquan with Master Zhang Xue Xin, a disciple of Grandmaster Feng.
Michael Dorgan
Director - Hunyuan Martial Arts Academy of San Jose
In 1999, Dorgan moved to China to become the Beijing bureau chief for Knight Ridder Newspapers. Shortly after settling in Beijing, he had the opportunity to begin studying privately with Grandmaster Feng, as well as with his daughter, Feng Xiuqian, and Master Chen Xiang, widely regarded as Grandmaster Feng's most accomplished disciple.
In 2002, Dorgan became a formal disciple, or “indoor student,” of Grandmaster Feng, the relationship through which the essence of a system is passed from generation to generation.
After completing his posting for Knight Ridder in China in 2003, Dorgan took a leave of absence and remained in Beijing for nearly a year and a half to train intensively with Grandmaster Feng, Chen Xiang and other senior disciples.
At the First International Hunyuan Taiji Conference in January, 2007, Dorgan was named an honorary instructor at the Feng Zhiqiang Martial Arts Academy in Beijing. He is available for private lessons. Contact Michael
CONTACT US
For information about Hunyuan Martial Arts Academy of San Jose and upcoming events please
contact Michael Dorgan at:
| Telephone: | 408 813-4028 |
| E-mail: | hunyuan_sanjose@yahoo.com |