https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95V8Ap3dpu8
Shifu Michelle Gong,
Followed her dream as a young girl growing up in a small rural village in China.
A dream that would lead her to go on to Wudang mountain and learn the 36 form “Wudang Taiji”.
She learned taiji as young teenager, traveling to the “temple of heaven” in Beijing to study under the taiji masters there, and would later go on to win an international competition in 2009.
Her last taiji teacher she would meet in Beijing through a friend.
She met Master Zhang Youngliang, 張永良師傅 1920–2020
a noted but very private taiji master teaching in one of the many Beijing parks.
One of my teachers students....awhile back...
Form play, reflecting our practice....
Filming very impromptu, on a cold Beijing winter day