- This event has passed.
GanZhi program session 1
October 16, 2025 @ 6:00 pm – October 21, 2025 @ 12:00 pm Paris
GanZhi Advanced Daoist Arts Program
Master Zhongxian Wu developed the GanZhi Advanced Daoist Arts program to preserve the use of the Stems and Branches in classical Chinese healing arts, internal cultivation practice, and in Yijing divination techniques, as well as to create an international network of practitioners and teachers skilled in the deepest roots of China’s ancient wisdom traditions.
Guided by principles of the Yijing 易經, one of the oldest classical Chinese texts, the structure of this program includes four levels of training: Yuan 元, Heng 亨, Li 利, and Zhen 貞.
To help students deepen and embody their understanding of these ancient arts, we share secret Daoist internal alchemy practices throughout each level of the program.
Applied Divination and Chinese Astrology: TianGan DiZhi 天干地支
TianGan DiZhi (“GanZhi”), the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, are the foundation of ancient Chinese cosmological sciences. With origins in a complex calendrical system, the GanZhi were created to codify the patterns of the universe.
The Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches are the heart of all Chinese wisdom traditions. In them lie the keys to understanding the crucial alchemical principles governing the macrocosm (universe) and microcosm (human being).
Program Structure
Instruction for the GanZhi Advanced Daoist Arts Program is offered in an immersive setting and via online forums over the course of four years. In the Daoist tradition, community is an essential component of all internal cultivation practices. Being in the company of like heart-minds offers tremendous support on our life journey.
During annual intensive trainings, we delve ever deeper into the theories and practices of these ancient lineage teachings. It is through our own cultivation practices that we learn to turn knowledge into the wisdom of our own daily experience.
Session 1: Yuan 元 – TianGan 天干
元者善之長也
YuanZheShanZhiZhangYe
Yuan is the source of virtue*
Yuan means origin and source. In the Yijing, it is the symbol for new life, the virtue of heaven and earth, spring, the eastern direction and great compassion. We begin this program by focusing on the source of all practical applications of the TianGan – symbolism and numerology – and by nourishing the root of our Shan 善, the great compassion inherent in our being.
In this level, we will cover:
JiChu 基礎 (Foundations)
History and mythology; TianRenHeYi 天人合一 (the Union of Human and Nature); TianGan (10 Heavenly Stems) internal alchemy and healing principles; Chinese calligraphy (10 TianGan symbols); TianGan symbolism and numerology; Spirit of the 10 organ systems
YiLi 毉理 (Clinical Theory)
YaoYi 藥義 (Original concept of medicine); FangYao 方藥 (primordial cosmos and Chinese medicine); ZhenLiao 診療說 (three layers of diagnosis and treatment)
Fa 灋 (Cultivation Practice)
Zhen 震 (Thunder, the ritual of the heart); TianGan NeiGong XinFa 天干內功心灋 (TianGan internal alchemy standing and sitting meditation); ShuiGong 睡功 (three hearts return to one root)
