Academy
Meet Professor Hu Xiaofei, then the branch schools, competitions and grading, and the faculty who appear on camera.
Professor Hu Xiaofei is a professor and doctoral supervisor. He formerly headed the health-cultivation teaching office and the Daoyin centre at Beijing Sport University, and is a recognised teaching master among Beijing universities. He is a member of the International Health Qigong Federation and deputy head of its technical committee; a standing committee member of the Chinese Health Qigong Association and deputy head of its research committee; and was among the first examiners for Health Qigong overseas grading.
He was the first health-cultivation professor to lecture at United Nations headquarters, and received Cuba's Mártires de Barbados sporting honour. He studied with Professor Zhang Guangde and has taught, researched and shared traditional health cultivation for nearly thirty years, with particular work in daoyin, yangsheng taiji, and the design of exercise programmes. He has taught tens of thousands of students from more than fifty countries; he has served many times as chief judge at international and national daoyin and Health Qigong competitions; and he has lectured, reported and performed on nearly a hundred visits to almost thirty countries, including the United States, Japan and Germany.
He has also taught at Chinese government and academic institutions, industry sports associations, towns, neighbourhoods and care homes. He created the Qianlong yangsheng system and has written books including Qianlong Fitness Art, Ba Duan Jin for Building Strength, Warm-up before Yangsheng Practice, and Wheelchair Fitness Art. He co-authored the nationally promoted teaching materials Health Qigong · Daoyin Yangsheng Gong 12 Methods and Health Qigong · Twelve Brocades.
The Hu Xiaofei Daoyin Kangyang Academy was founded in February 2021. Nordic, Russian, French, and Spanish/Portuguese branch schools have opened.
Director of the French branch school
The French branch opened with Joëlle Stempfel, based in Normandy. She founded Le Palais de l'Être in 2008 and teaches Qigong, Taijiquan and HeDao. She holds a 7th duan in Daoyin Kangyang and is a senior judge.
Her school site also states a French state diploma (DEJEPS) and the 6th duan of the International Health Qigong Federation. She judged the first international Hu Xiaofei Daoyin Kangyang tournament in 2025.
Director of the Russian branch school
Organiser and head of the Russian branch; a certified Qigong and Daoyin instructor, and one of Professor Hu Xiaofei's earlier students in the Daoyin Kangyang system. She holds a 7th duan in Daoyin Kangyang and is a senior judge. She sits on the international examination commission and curates the school's educational programmes.
The Russian school site also states a 4th duan in Health Qigong from the International Health Qigong Federation, and a 3rd duan in Daoyin Yangsheng Gong from Beijing Sport University. She was executive director of the first international Hu Xiaofei Daoyin Kangyang tournament in 2025.
Partners in the Portuguese and Spanish language branch school
Ângela Soci and Danilo Tomic work in partnership in the dissemination of Hu Xiaofei Daoyin Kangyang among Portuguese and Spanish-speaking practitioners.
Director of the Portuguese and Spanish language branch school
She lives in São Paulo, Brazil. She directs the Brazilian Society of Tai Chi Chuan and Oriental Culture (SBTCC), which hosts Hu Xiaofei Daoyin Kangyang's courses, and the Hu Xiaofei Daoyin Kangyang branch in the country.
She has the 7th duan in Daoyin Kangyang and is a senior judge. She was a judge at the first Hu Xiaofei Daoyin Kangyang international tournament in 2025.
Since 2023 she has been developing the annual training and certification courses of the Hu Xiaofei System in Latin America, with the Daoyin Kangyang programme in Portuguese and Spanish.
Partner in the Portuguese and Spanish language branch school
He lives in São Paulo, Brazil. He is certified by Hu Xiaofei Daoyin Kangyang and is a Yang Family Tai Chi Chuan instructor certified by the Brazilian Tai Chi Chuan Society.
He develops face-to-face and online courses and workshops on the various approaches of Daoyin Kangyang.
He collaborates on the translations and teaching materials of the training and certification courses of the Daoyin Kangyang programme for Portuguese and Spanish-speaking practitioners.
The duo brings together mutually reinforcing skills: Ângela provides institutional direction, the credential of an international judge and the leading of the training programme; Danilo contributes the teaching, the production of materials, and linguistic and cultural mediation.
Together, they sustain a continuing education operation that combines recognised certification, their own teaching material and reach in two languages.
Director of the Nordic branch school
Based in Oulu, Finland. A founder of Oulun Taiji-seura in 1992. Since 2021 he has organised the Nordic branch of the Hu Xiaofei Daoyin Kangyang Academy; teaching is mainly online.
He holds a 7th duan in Daoyin Kangyang and is a senior judge. He has arranged Professor Hu Xiaofei's visits to Oulu, and judged the first international Hu Xiaofei Daoyin Kangyang tournament in 2025.
The academy includes courses, grading, competitions, teacher training, and online seminars. Dates for camps, exams, and seminars will be posted when they open; enrolment is not available yet.
Four parts are being arranged: foundation work; seasonal programmes; sets grouped by practice aim; and culture-based sets. Titles and dates will be spelled out when they go up.
Entry-level standing, breathing and basics.
Sets arranged by season.
Grouped by what the practitioner wants to work on.
Sets taught alongside their cultural background.
The teachers below are part of this faculty. Who appears in which set is stated on that course page.
Doctoral supervisor · School of Physical Education, Shanxi University
National social-sports instructor; national Health Qigong instructor and judge; 7th duan in Health Qigong and 6th duan in wushu. He reviews projects for the National Social Science Fund. His research is in traditional ethnic sport and the social study of sport.
He formerly served as vice-dean of the School of Physical Education at Shanxi University, and now leads its traditional ethnic sport discipline. He was named an outstanding individual in mass-sport research in 2003, a distinguished university teacher in Shanxi in 2006, and received a teaching-abroad award in 2011. Since 2009 he has been sent to Hong Kong, Macao, Cuba, the United Kingdom, Spain, Belgium, Serbia, Slovenia, Argentina, Peru, the United States and elsewhere to share Health Qigong.
School of Chinese Martial Arts; deputy director, Daoyin Health-Cultivation Centre, Beijing Sport University
Associate professor at the School of Chinese Martial Arts, Beijing Sport University, and deputy director of its Daoyin Health-Cultivation Centre. Member of the Chinese Health Qigong Association of the General Administration of Sport. Former coach of China's national Health Qigong team. First place, Health Qigong Ba Duan Jin team event, mass competition of the 13th National Games.
First prize in the young-teachers' teaching skills contest at his school. Taught on nearly forty overseas visits to more than twenty countries. Has often judged major Health Qigong events at home and abroad. Named an outstanding individual in national and overseas Health Qigong promotion.
Demonstration and teaching
A student of Professor Hu; doctorate from Beijing Normal University, master's from Beijing Sport University.
National university champion in Yi Jin Jing; international gold medal in Daoyin Yangsheng Gong 12 Methods.
Postdoctoral fellow in health cultivation
Postdoctoral fellow at Tsinghua University; PhD from Beijing Sport University. Second place in taiji sword at an international Daoyin Yangsheng Gong competition; gold award in Health Qigong · Ba Duan Jin at an international Health Qigong invitational.
He has taught health cultivation at Chinese government and academic institutions, at Alibaba, and at universities including Juntendo in Japan, the Confucius Institute in Iceland, and Purdue in the United States.
Doctor of health cultivation
First prize, individual, at the first national Daoyin Yangsheng Gong 12 Methods competition. In Jiangsu Health Qigong competitions: first prize individual Yi Jin Jing, and first prize team Wu Qin Xi and Yi Jin Jing.
In Jiangsu university competitions: first prize individual Ba Duan Jin, second prize team Wu Qin Xi, first prize team Ba Duan Jin. Has taught health-cultivation classes for international students from Ritsumeikan University, University of Miyazaki, Kwansei Gakuin University, and Kanto International Senior High School in Japan.
Lecturer, School of Chinese Martial Arts, Beijing Sport University
PhD and lecturer at Beijing Sport University; national Health Qigong judge; 7th duan in Health Qigong and 5th duan in wushu. Individual first place in Wu Qin Xi at the 2011 national university Health Qigong competition. He has taught in more than ten countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom and France.
He has led or joined nearly ten research projects. In 2024 he taught coaches on a national taiji station programme, covering the theory and teaching of Taiji Ba Fa Wu Bu.
Safety
This website provides instruction in physical exercise. It is not a medical service and does not replace advice from a doctor or other qualified health professional.
If you are under medical treatment, or have concerns relating to the heart, blood pressure, breathing or joints, or are pregnant, recovering from birth or recent surgery, please consult your doctor before starting. Stop immediately if you feel unwell during practice.
