Our founding partners came together through marriage. Shifu Ian is Welsh born, and lived a life of ups and downs as he searched to understand life… and himself. When he met Shimu Angie, she introduced him to entirely new aspects of life. The daughter of a senior military official, Angie was born in Taiwan, and had already moved to Canada where they met. As a part of her Chinese Heritage, Angie introduced Ian to various Sifu, different Masters, literature and a whole new world.

Over the years, through great dedication and a wide open willingness to learn, Ian became a formal student of a 20th Generation Shaolin Sifu. This master took great care in how he guided Ian’s practice. While other students joined Tai Ji practice, Ian quickly realized that it was not Tai Ji he was practicing…… he was practicing life….. and Tai Ji was simply an ancient philosophy used to explain the way of life. While other students focused on memorizing the Tai Ji set, perfected their poses and pushed their body to stretch… Ian realized how Tai Ji is much more that just physical exercise… to Ian… Tai Ji became a way of tuning in to life.

It wasn’t just Tai Ji that Ian practiced. He began to notice, consider and understand the philosophies of Chan, Qi Gong, Tai Ji, Feng Shui, Yi Jing, Kung Fu, and Bing Fa. There were great moment of struggle as he practiced. Confronted by the unravelling of man made frameworks, Ian was forced to learn how to hold the reality of the man made world in place, and live with his wife, children, friends and responsibilities…. while at the same time……. practicing the ways of the phenomenologically morphic fractals within the infinite natural world. Over time his studies, and practice brought understanding to what Qi is, how Yin Yang mix, where Dao is, why Yuanfen is to be respected, how Wu Wei flows, which elements drive what results, and how virtue dictates all. This experience took Ian through healing others, working with nature, influencing events, teaching, speaking and sharing.

Suddenly, the primary Sifu most responsible for Ian’s journey declared him as a 21st Generation Shaolin Shifu.

Today Shifu Ian lives in Oakville, Canada with his family. He teaches online, in person and shares knowledge here in this community. He has worked in over 20 countries with individuals, governments, military and many businesses. He is known for his profound natural abilities, his extensive knowledge and a masterful dedication to all it takes to live successfully in the man made world, while at the same time being a part of the infinity of the natural world.

Shifu Ian started this community as a way of offering likeminded people access to others experiencing similar things. It is his wish to share knowledge with mankind, to learn together with others, and to ultimately organize the immense knowledge China has, in English. Not as a translated version… but as a newly written understanding of the ancient wisdom, modernized through the english language.