But the boy’s apprenticeship and training went far beyond his father’s lessons. Every day, hours before sunrise, he rose to practice qigong and martial arts. No one had ever told the boy that he should become a doctor, he just knew from as far back as he could remember that he too wished to carry on the profession of so many generations of his family before him.

After years of training and study at his father’s side along with well-respected martial arts masters, the boy left his hometown for the city where he attended a prestigious medical school and deepened his qigong and martial arts practice with several renown masters. At university, he met a girl who shared his passion for Traditional Chinese Medicine as well as qigong and martial arts. Throughout their years of medical school, the pair found strength and calm from their rigorous studies by sparring and practicing martial arts together.

Amid their busy medical studies, the couple each won medals – he earned a gold medal, and she silver – in national martial arts competitions among students from Traditional Chinese Medical schools from across China.

When they completed their studies, both had obtained medical degrees not only in Traditional Chinese Medicine but also received the same training that a Western doctor would obtain from an American medical school.

One big difference, however, is their lifelong study and practice of qigong and martial arts. For in ancient Chinese it was held that “Only one who is healthy and strong himself can heal.”

After years of practicing medicine and teaching at prestigious university hospitals in China, the young man who had grown up watching his father heal patients, moved to America with his wife and daughter, where for more than 10 years they have shared their deep knowledge of acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Their unique skills, acquired over a lifetime of intense training and mastery of Qigong and Martial Arts, allow them to share their medical knowledge as well as their abundant and powerful Qi (“Chi”), a palpable energy that is a powerful adjunct to healing and curing their patients. It is this Qi, or subtle energy, that allows healing on a holistic level.