A two-day Tai Chi master workshop series and a Tai Chi Wushu demonstration by a master, held in Los Angeles and Irvine.
Tai Chi Masters Forms & Applications Training Series in UC-Irvine
These workshops place strong emphasis on practical instruction, hands-on training, and the refinement of authentic skills. Designed for dedicated learners, the program goes beyond theory to focus on real practice, method application, and measurable improvement in Tai Chi and Qigong proficiency.
Features world-leading Tai Chi lineage holders and mind–body practice experts, with a strong emphasis on master-level demonstrations that highlight the cultural, historical, and embodied dimensions of traditional movement-based practices.
A platform centered on Tai Chi, Qigong wellness, and integrative health, bringing together diverse organizations and communities to share practice, connect across disciplines, and foster collaboration, mutual empowerment, and integrated development.
President of the World Taiji Science Federation and World Wushu Open Championships,
He is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Irvine, and Honorary President of the Chen Style Taijiquan Promotion Association.
U.S. Chen Style Taijiquan Promotion Association
Secretary-General
Founder & President
SANTEEFIT Institute for Integrative Movement Science
President of the North America Branch of the Yunnan Wushu Association
President of the Lightning Tai Chi, Inc.
Founder of the Sha Guo Zheng Wushu Cultural Research Institute (USA)
Founder of OS-PRO Fitness Studio
Chairman of the Sunlight Culture and Art Center; Chairman of the Cultural and Education Committee, CUAAASC.
founding & board member of the Traditional Chinese Martial Arts Federation (TCMAF) in Southern California.
Mr. Edward Shen, is the successor of Master Chen Jin-Cai in North America.
A 19th-generation Chen family Taijiquan inheritor and 11th-generation direct lineage holder, he is among the most influential figures in modern Chen-style Taijiquan, 9 Duan master and national intangible cultural heritage inheritor, he has devoted decades to research, teaching, preservation, and international promotion through systematic training, publications, and worldwide seminars and cultural exchange.
Yang Style Taiji disciple, 9 Duan, Fifth-generation inheritor of Yang-style Tai Chi. Currently serves as the President of the Xi’an Yongnian Yang-style Tai Chi Association, and concurrently holds positions as a member of the Chinese Wushu Association and Vice Chairman of the Tai Chi Committee of Shaanxi Province. Recognized as a representative inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage of Yang-style Tai Chi.
He is a leading Tai Chi master from China, trained from childhood in a renowned martial family. He remained undefeated in hundreds of competitions, won multiple national titles, and devoted his life to teaching Tai Chi worldwide, educating over 30,000 students, promoting health culture harmony balance resilience mindfulness respect unity excellence tradition discipline legacy ethics community service peace continuity.
Associate Professor at Zhejiang International Studies University and Xixi Scholar, she is a Taijiquan all-around champion of the 2008 Beijing Olympics and consecutive National Games. A national sports medalist and expert committee member, she leads national projects and researches Chinese martial arts culture and Taijiquan health preservation and academic education.
Professor and doctoral supervisor; Director of the Traditional Sports and Health Research Center at Beijing Sport University. Holds senior leadership roles in national and international rehabilitation and traditional medicine organizations, and serves as principal investigator of a national-level Traditional Chinese Medicine preventive health and exercise-based conditioning research project.
Selected at age nine into a professional wushu team, trained in traditional Chinese martial arts for ten years. Later apprenticed in Wudang Daoist martial arts and health cultivation. National-level coach and Daoist physician. Founder of a cultural institute, teaching Wudang Tai Chi, Qigong and martial arts.
Selected at age nine into a professional wushu team, trained in traditional Chinese martial arts for ten years. Later apprenticed in Wudang Daoist martial arts and health cultivation. National-level coach and Daoist physician. Founder of a cultural institute, teaching Wudang Tai Chi, Qigong and martial arts.