A living Chinese lineage
Forty years in China — and a vision for the world.
This is a live, teacher-guided qigong and mind-body energy practice, rooted in the deepest streams of Chinese wisdom and proven through more than forty years of teaching. Thousands of students across East Asia and around the world have applied it to return to a healthier state of being, steadier inner energy, and a fuller life.
The Founder
李纯才 (Li Chuncai)
The practice began with Master Li Chuncai.
Before he became known as a qigong and feng shui master, Master Li worked in China's aerospace field and spent years searching for a deeper way to rebuild inner strength. That search led him into direct study with four teachers across the I Ching, qigong, Daoist cultivation, and the Shaolin Buddhist tradition.
From those streams, he built this work into a complete practice for mind, energy, and everyday life — what is taught today as Mind-Led Qigong — drawing from the highest wisdom of Chinese philosophy and turning it into something people could learn, practice, and carry.
For more than forty years, he has taught students across East Asia. Today, he has trained more than 180 disciples carrying the work forward around the world.
Our Vision
Bringing inner balance back into modern life.
This work is now being carried beyond its original circle because modern life has rarely needed it more.
People are more connected than ever, yet many feel scattered, tired, and far from themselves. This practice offers a way back inward — a steady practice that helps the mind settle, the body reconnect, and inner energy begin to build again.
The vision is simple and large: to help more people live with steadier wellbeing, fuller meaning, and a deeper sense of inner support. As the work grows, we are also preparing the next generation of teachers who can carry this tradition with depth, care, and real practice.
The practice
More than a thousand methods, taught by stage.
Over more than forty years, Master Li developed well over a thousand methods for the body, breath, mind, seasons, and deeper stages of inner practice. Students begin with the foundations and continue only as their practice, purpose, and readiness grow.
- Tai Chi Meridian Open-Close
- The foundation everyone begins with: a standing qigong practice that opens and closes through the body's energy pathways, helping students gather, build, and circulate usable energy.
- Tai Chi Ball
- The second foundation after Open-Close. Through a soft, rounded movement, students learn to feel, hold, and shift energy while training the mind to release the patterns that drain it.
- Shaolin One-Finger Zen
- An advanced internal-strength practice from the Shaolin tradition, built through standing practice and precise hand work. It develops deep steadiness and internal force for students who continue into the higher curriculum.
- Sound & Number Code
- A voice-based method using sound, rhythm, and number patterns. Like a chant, it helps the mind settle into a steadier state and gives the practice another way to work through the body.
- Five Elements, Four Seasons, Three Realms, and Tai Chi
- A structured curriculum that connects practice with classical Chinese frameworks of time, nature, body, and balance. This is where workshops and advanced study draw from.
Our instructors
Raina Chu
Raina Chu spent her career in the world many of her students still live in: high-pressure global tech and strategy. She studied at National Taiwan University, earned a master's from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, then held senior roles at Accenture and ByteDance — so she knows what it is to push hard, think without pause, and never quite power down.
She began practicing in 2010, became a disciple of Master Li in 2012, and has trained for over fifteen years. In 2017 she left that career to teach this work full time — online and in person, in Chinese and English — bringing a distinctly modern sensibility to a practice with deep roots, built for the high-performing lives she came from.
The wider lineage
Carried by more than one pair of hands.
This work is carried by more than one teacher. Alongside Master Li, an experienced team of teachers across East Asia continues to teach, practice, and refine the work, each carrying the lineage forward in their own region.
That wider field matters. It means this is not one person's idea or a single local studio. It is a living tradition, held by many hands, now opening to more people around the world.
Follow the journey.
Meet the practice through the community — events, stories, and the people carrying it forward.