Trained in China under the 18th generation grandmasters of the Chen style of Taiji, Master Yang was a three-time Taiji champion at the Shanghai collegiate tournament and former instructor at the Shanghai Chen Style Taiji research association. To understand the power and mechanics of Taiji and Qigong beyond traditional explanatory frameworks, Master Yang completed a doctorate degree in kinesiology at the University of Illinois. His research focuses directly on the mechanisms and benefits of traditional Taiji/Qigong. Yang’s detailed study of Taiji/Qigong from these commanding points of view—as a master practitioner and as a scientific researcher—enable him to clarify and/or demystify what are often obscure points of theory and practice and to serve as a bridge between the Eastern/traditional and Western/academic fields. He is author of Taijquan: The Art of Nurturing, The Science of Power and is currently the Director of the Center for Taiji & Qigong Studies, New York, NY.