Balance & Stillness

Balance maintains stillness and stillness maintains balance. They rely on each other like yin and yang and can never be separated. There is movement in stillness though. Yang within yin. Breathing and thought are two mechanisms that we shall use as examples. When a person is out of breath, their heart beats faster and the breathing is irregular. Yin and yang are imbalanced. In stillness, such as sleeping, or even sitting while awake, when the mind is disturbed, breathing patterns change due to the disturbing thoughts. When breathing is normal and regulated and the mind is calm, then there is a balance between the physical and mental. This is when stillness can be attained. In Daoism, stillness is sought for a multitude of reasons, mainly depending on the individual. Some of those reasons are health and longevity, spiritual awareness or enlightenment, or physical self awareness.

There is no longer a trend of people always being plugged in to a device. It is no longer happenstance, it is habit now. People don’t get up and look out their windows to check the weather, they look at the app on their phone or ipad. Being plugged in is just a part of everyday life now. This takes us out of balance. Sometimes, we need to unplug and detach from our online identities. Sometimes, we need to improve the health and maintenance of our physical selves. Sometimes, we need to recalibrate our lives to find our balance. Sometimes, we should quiet our minds and breathe; sit enjoyably in the beauty of stillness and find inner peace.

Hua Dao Medicine & Martial Arts

     Hua Dao is a Daoist family style of martial arts that was originated in Shanxi Province, China, more than three hundred years ago. Our martial and healing methods are second to none and can be found no where else in the world. Our style has been passed on from father to son for five generations and has only been spread to few places in China and no where else in the world. Now, sixth generation inheritor and master, Donaidh Allen (华资政) has returned to the United States to pass on the Hua Dao Arts. Hua Dao style has taiji/tai chi, a push hands unique only to this system, qi gong (extremely low impact exercises that strengthen the whole body and it's systems with an emphasis on breathing), and all that could be expected from a kung fu style including forms, practical fighting methods, weapons forms and fighting, etc. Being a Daoist style, there is a strong emphasis on health and healing. 

     Health and healing are of the utmost important to a Daoist. Longevity practices have been created and used by Daoists and Chinese medicine as we know it has been formulated by and improved upon by Daoists for millenia. The methods used in Hua Dao are practical and beginners can see advancement in as little time as a week. Our meditation and internal methods are unique to our style and can not be found anywhere else. Where as many styles of martial arts and healing systems have borrowed and taken from each other, Hua Dao has no such influence. Being a Daoist system, there is a core foundation that is similar to other styles, but the differences outweigh the similarities.

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www.hua-dao.com

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