About

Emei Qigong

Emei Qigong is a simple, powerful way to create harmony in your life. The strength and purity of its methods, refined over nearly eight centuries in a monastery on one of China’s most sacred Buddhist mountains, is a rare treasure.

Studying and practicing Emei Qigong improves physical health, restores emotional balance, sharpens mental acuity, and deepens spiritual understanding. Wuji Gong, the primary form of Emei Qigong, rebalances your Qi, or energy, in a way that is uniquely attuned to your individual needs. Regular practice, even just 45 minutes a week, brings remarkable benefits.

This comprehensive system of Chan (Zen) Qigong was brought to the West by Grandmaster Fu Wei Zhong, the school’s 13th lineage holder. It emphasizes internal cultivation and cleansing the heart, which allows one’s true nature to shine through. Some of its most important distinctive qualities include:

  • Its healing methods are safe, easy to learn, and extremely potent.

  • Tested and refined over centuries, these methods have proved their value repeatedly.

  • Graduated levels of training provide the serious student with a straightforward path for deepening his or her practice.

  • Emei Qigong offers more than forms: It teaches the theories that underlie the forms. Learning the theory accelerates the benefits of the practice.

Practice becomes a way of life.

“The true nature of the universe is kindness and compassion,” says Grandmaster Fu. “The goal of an Emei cultivator is to return to the true nature of the universe through cultivation and practice.”

Tyra Ferlatte

A dedicated practitioner and teacher of Emei Qigong, Tyra Ferlatte has been sharing its healing methods for 25 years: leading weekly classes; teaching seminars; and working with clients one-on-one to address their specific health issues. And always, continuing to learn and deepening her personal practice. Her goal is to help her students and clients use the wisdom of Emei Qigong to be as healthy and happy as possible.

In 2024, she realized a long-held dream when she opened her qigong studio, Thousand Flower Emei Qigong, in San Rafael.

Tyra has studied extensively in the United States and in China with Grandmaster Fu Wei Zhong since 2000. She became a certified teacher in 2007 and master of Emei Qigong in 2009. She is one of only nine of his disciples to have achieved the highest level of training offered in the West.

An editor and writer as well as a qigong practitioner, Tyra has worked extensively on the English-language versions of Grandmaster Fu’s books over the years and is responsible for their current editions.

Grandmaster Fu Wei Zhong

Fu Wei Zhong is the 13th zongshi, or lineage holder, of Emei Qigong, responsible for preserving, deepening, and transmitting the school’s theories and practices.

By the time he was 36, Grandmaster Fu was recognized in China as one of the most prominent grandmasters of Qigong and Traditional Chinese Medicine. He immigrated to the United States in 1995 in order to share Emei Qigong’s therapeutic techniques so its methods could be used in conjunction with contemporary Western medical techniques.

In 2006, Grandmaster Fu began training a group of dedicated students who now, as certified teachers, teach Emei Qigong in the United States and Canada. He has moved back to China and is concentrating on teaching his disciples there.

Learn more about Grandmaster Fu and Emei Qigong in the United States at EmeiQigong.com.