Enrollment Dates and Tuition & Fee Standards

Registration is open from March 1 through September 30 each year. The academy offers on-site housing, and rates depend on the type of accommodation you choose. Bring your own bedding and daily supplies, or we can provide them for you. When you arrive, please bring your ID card, student ID, graduation certificate, a letter of introduction, and proof of academic qualification. Students with special circumstances are welcome to enroll and begin at any time.

Domestic Fee Standards

| Study Duration | Tuition (yuan) | Course Content | Accommodation & Meals | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 7 days | 1,800 | Basic Wudang fundamentals; choose 1 set from Wudang 18 Forms or simplified Tai Chi | Accommodation and meals (room plus board) are chosen freely according to your budget, with these options:

• Single room: 150 yuan/day

• Standard room (tiered): 100 / 80 / 70 yuan/day

• Triple room: 60 yuan/day

• Quad room: 50 yuan/day

• 8-bed room: 40 yuan/day

A few additional notes:

Cultural and martial arts classes: tuition is 28,800 yuan for grades 1–9; 22,800 yuan for grades 4 (inclusive) through 9; 18,800 yuan for grade 6 through junior high graduation. Fees are adjusted according to the room and board standard chosen.
Tuition is paid in full at the start, based on the length of study. Living expenses may be paid semi-annually. Returning students pay 600 yuan per month for living expenses, plus 50 yuan per month in caregiver fees for young children (actual charge: 650 yuan).
Room and board standards can be chosen freely.

Martial Arts Learning Rates for Foreign Tour Groups (Updated September 2015)

Martial Arts Learning Rates for Foreign Tour Groups

| Group Size | Fee (includes room and board) | | | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | | Under 5 days | 5–15 days | 15–30 days | | Under 10 people | 500 yuan / person / day | 450 yuan / person / day | 400 yuan / person / day | | 10–30 people | 400 yuan / person / day | 350 yuan / person / day | 300 yuan / person / day | | Over 30 people | 300 yuan / person / day | 260 yuan / person / day | 220 yuan / person / day |

Course content includes:

Basics: waist loosening, hip stretching, shoulder rolling, Bagua step, mud-treading step, swing-and-lock step, and more
Health preservation: Wudang Baduanjin, Wudang Five-Element Health-Preservation Practice, Wudang Tongzi Gong (Youth-Preserving Skill), Wudang Chunyang Gong (Pure Yang Practice)
Weapons: traditional Wudang arms — saber, spear, straight sword, staff, whip, shovel, fly whisk, wisdom hammer, and others
Fist forms: Wudang Taiyi Five-Element Fist, Wudang Sanfeng Fist, Wudang Long Fist, capture-and-subdue fist, prisoner-taking fist, Tai Chi 13 Forms, and more
Qigong: Chunyang Qigong, Huangni Gong, Jiuxing Gong, Bagua Zhang, and more

Individual Students

| Group Size | Fee (includes school room and board) | | --- | --- | | Under 5 people | 8,000 yuan / person / month | | 5 or more people | 7,000 yuan / person / month |

Notes for tour group and individual programs:

Depending on the nature of the group and the skill level of its members, the instructor will arrange the curriculum flexibly to help you reach your learning goals.
Health-preservation practices carry an overall 10% fee increase.
Daily teaching is calculated at 4 hours per day. In special cases, when only 1 hour of training is provided per day, the fee is 200 yuan per hour, with other charges unchanged. Fees are settled at the prevailing bank exchange rate; reasonable adjustments may be made in the event of international currency fluctuations.
For anything unclear, please contact the academy office directly to discuss the details — we look forward to a pleasant partnership and shared growth. Tel: 0719-8026069

Wudang Martial Arts Professional Program

A three-year program with tuition of 22,800 yuan. It covers both fist forms and weapons.

Fist forms include Wudang Taoist internal kung fu, Bagua Iron-Arm Skill, qingong (lightness skill), and basic fundamentals, plus Chunyang Fist (2 routines), Tai Chi, Xingyi Fist, Bagua Fist, Wudang Taiyi Five-Element Fist, Wudang Southern Fist, Xuantian Fist, Wudang Sanfeng Fist, Wudang Long Fist, capture-and-subdue fist, prisoner-taking fist, and Tai Chi 13 Forms.

Weapons include Shaolin Yin-Yang Staff, Wudang elective staff, traditional Wudang saber, spear, straight sword, staff, whip, shovel, fly whisk, wisdom hammer, Wudang close-combat short stick, multi-person paired combat routines, grappling and free fighting, short strikes, Chunyang Sword, and a range of Wudang footwork (Bagua step, Xiaoyao step, Eight Great Steps, and others).

Children's Cultural and Martial Arts Program

The academy offers a full cultural and martial arts curriculum from primary school through junior high. Tuition is 28,800 yuan for students from primary grade 1 through junior high graduation; 22,800 yuan for grade 4 (inclusive) through graduation; and 18,800 yuan for grade 6 through graduation. Cultural textbook fees match those of local students. Course content covers: introductory martial arts, basic training in various fist forms, coordination drills for free combat, two-person paired practice, Wudang Southern Fist, Tai Chi, Tai Chi Sword, Chunyang Fist, Bagua Fist, Wudang close-combat short stick, Wudang Wind-Chasing Saber, and more.

Note: Our cultural courses are taught by teachers from local primary and secondary schools, and the textbooks are the same as those used at home. There are no supplemental tutoring classes of any kind. If any of the above is found to be untrue, the academy will refund your full tuition plus round-trip travel costs.

Qigong and Medicinal Kung Fu Programs

Main courses: Chunyang Secret Skill, Baduanjin, Wudang Tongzi Gong, internal alchemy body-conditioning, Iron Sand Fist, Cinnabar Sand Fist, and Wudang Five-Element Health-Preservation Practice. External kung fu includes lying on a bed of nails and stone-breaking, having a car pass over the body, Iron Shirt, head-breaking of bottles and bricks, palm brick-breaking, and various fitness qigong, as well as women's medicinal self-defense, anesthetizing techniques and their antidotes, and medicinal escape techniques. Each item is charged at 800 yuan.

Wudang Martial Arts Short-Term Professional Training

Main content: close-range sticky-hand takedowns, sinew-and-bone reversing techniques, push hands, Wudang 18 Forms, Wudang Sanfeng Tai Chi, Wudang Short Strikes routines 1–2, Xuanwu Sword routines 1–2, Chunyang Fist routines 1–2, Bagua Iron-Arm Skill, a range of internal-style paired combat drills, and weapon paired drills. Health-preservation practices include Wudang Taoist Yin-Yang Ten Steps, Baduanjin, Longmen Twelve Forms, Wudang Tongzi Gong, Taoist breathing and guiding exercises, Wudang Five-Element Health-Preservation Practice, various qigong, and internal alchemy cultivation.

You may also pick any fist forms you like from the Wudang Martial Arts Professional Program, and we'll build a sensible schedule around your available time. Additional offerings — computer classes, driving lessons, security training — are available too; fees are open to discussion.

Traditional Chinese Medicine Physiotherapy, Acupuncture, and Massage

Chinese medicine holds that human life is sustained by qi and blood, and that the meridians are the pathways through which qi and blood circulate, linking the organs with the limbs, connecting upper and lower, interior and exterior, and regulating every part of the body. "When qi is injured, there is pain; when blood is injured, there is swelling." In clinical practice, our department combines traditional natural therapies such as acupuncture, tuina, cupping, and gua sha with modern physiotherapy equipment — traction, light therapy, and low- and medium-frequency electrical therapy — to move qi, activate blood, balance yin and yang, regulate the body's functions, treat disease, and strengthen health. The approach has shown marked results for cervical spondylosis, lumbar disc herniation, bone spurs, lumbar muscle strain, sciatica, frozen shoulder, post-stroke hemiplegia, arthritis, tennis elbow, gout, and facial paralysis, among other conditions.

The academy engages Taoist physicians to teach TCM physiotherapy, acupuncture, acupoint injection, joint mobilization, neuromuscular facilitation, exercise therapy, ultrashort-wave therapy, medium-frequency therapy, and acupuncture-tuina massage. Fees are open to discussion.

Consultation: 0719-8026069 · 13971916330 (Liu Chongxuan)

Tuina (Chinese Therapeutic Massage)

Tuina is also known by older names such as anqiao, qiaoyin, and anji. A non-pharmaceutical natural and physical therapy with a long history, it has been called by some scholars the "elder statesman of the healing arts." As a method of treating illness through human touch, tuina means a practitioner working with their hands on the patient's body surface, the injured area, the site of discomfort, specific acupoints, or tender spots — using a variety of techniques such as pushing, grasping, pressing, rubbing, kneading, pinching, pointing, and patting — to unblock the meridians, move qi and blood, ease injury and pain, dispel stasis and support the body's healthy qi, and harmonize yin and yang.

The word tuina evolved gradually from earlier terms such as mosuo (rubbing), anjiao (pressing and stretching), and anmo (massage). The shift was more than nominal: it reflects centuries of accumulated practice, innovation, and development by tuina physicians. Tuina is an ancient Chinese method of treating injury and illness, and a living part of Chinese medicine today. A practitioner applies different forces, techniques, and focused energy to specific areas of the patient's body in order to restore or improve vitality and support recovery. As a "healing-through-touch" method, it belongs to the natural therapies so often championed today. Because its methods are simple and free of side effects, and its results are reliable, it has been continually developed, enriched, and refined in China over thousands of years. The last four decades in particular — with the rise of Western practitioners studying Chinese medicine and the founding of Chinese-medicine colleges — have given the field a powerful push forward. More recently, research institutions have begun studying tuina's underlying mechanisms and have produced initial findings, which has given the practice yet another boost. Today, tuina is taken seriously in many countries; students have come to China to study it from places including the United States, France, Italy, Germany, and Spain, and Chinese experts have been invited abroad to run training courses. Chinese tuina, in other words, has earned the world's attention.

Cupping Therapy

Cupping has a long history in China and a remarkably wide range of clinical uses. It is one of the folk methods of treating internal illness from the outside, with no toxicity and no side effects, short treatment courses, and quick results — a true "green" natural therapy. As the old saying goes, "Do some cupping, and half the illness is gone." Even for conditions that are hard to treat by other means, cupping can often produce good results. It is simple, easy to perform, and effective, sparing patients the harm of medication and the cost of drugs — which is why it has endured so long and spread so widely.

When the cup is applied to a point on a meridian, it unblocks the meridians, activates blood, moves qi, dispels wind, drains dampness, scatters cold, draws out toxins, reduces swelling, eases pain, clears heat, and helps rebalance yin and yang — easing fatigue, strengthening the body, and supporting recovery. In short, it supports the healthy and dispels the pathogenic.

Leave the pain and discomfort in the cup. Take the health and the relief home with you.

Acupuncture and Moxibustion

Acupuncture and moxibustion are a uniquely Chinese way of treating disease — a method of "treating the internal from the external." Working through the meridians and acupoints with specific techniques, the practitioner treats illness throughout the body. In clinical practice, the physician follows the standard methods of Chinese diagnosis: identifying the cause of the illness, pinpointing its key features, determining its nature, and locating which meridian and which organ it belongs to — and whether it falls into the exterior or interior, cold or heat, deficiency or excess pattern. With that diagnosis in hand, an appropriate point combination is chosen for treatment. The goal is to open the meridians, regulate qi and blood, restore yin and yang to a relative balance, and bring the organs back into harmony — and in doing so, to treat the disease. Acupuncture and moxibustion are part of the legacy of Chinese medicine and a distinctive method of Chinese national healthcare. For thousands of years they have made an outstanding contribution to safeguarding health and the flourishing of the people, and they continue in that role today, trusted by the general public.

Effects

Unblocking the meridians Unblocking the meridians allows stuck channels to resume their normal physiological role — this is the most direct and basic therapeutic effect of acupuncture and moxibustion. The meridians "belong to the organs internally and connect with the limbs externally," and running qi and blood is one of their main physiological functions. When the meridians are obstructed and qi and blood cannot move freely, the clinical signs are pain, numbness, swelling, and bruising. Acupuncture selects appropriate points and needling techniques — including three-edged needle bleeding — to open the meridians and restore normal circulation of qi and blood.
Harmonizing yin and yang Harmonizing yin and yang brings the body from a state of imbalance back toward balance — the ultimate aim of acupuncture treatment. The mechanisms of disease are complex, but in broad terms they can be summed up as an imbalance of yin and yang. Acupuncture achieves this harmonizing effect through the yin-yang properties of the meridians, the pairing of points, and the choice of needling technique.
Supporting the healthy and dispelling the pathogenic This effect means supporting the body's healthy qi and driving out pathogenic factors. The onset, development, and outcome of illness are, at their core, a contest between healthy and pathogenic qi. What makes acupuncture effective in treating disease is precisely this capacity to bolster the healthy and dispel the pathogenic.