Taichi

Zen

Hong Yang (宇垚) is the founder of the Tai Chi Zen Institute. Hong Yang, PHD from Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine and MBA in International Business management, is a family inheritor of Traditional Chinese Kungfu and a Tai Chi practitioner since she was five years old. Trained by both the Chinese traditional methods and the modern academic way, she has obtained international Tai Chi Quan championships in Tai Chi hand forms, Tai Chi sword, and Tai Chi push hands from 2008 to 2014. Moreover, Hong has been exploring and deepening her understanding of the cultural roots of Tai Chi philosophy and the traditional Chinese Medicine behind the physical Tai Chi Quan forms. Hong is a Master Trainer for Tai Chi for Health Institute and offers workshops throughout the USA to train and certify tai chi instructors. She is also the general assistant coach in the Lightning Tai Chi Organization.