“Chungliang Al Huang’s Tai Ji dancing is ‘mythic images’ incarnate. He has found a new way to explain ‘the hero’s journey’ to help others follow their bliss through the experience of tai ji practice in his work through the Living Tao Foundation.”
Joseph Campbell
Mythologist, Scholar & Author
As a highly regarded authority on Tai Ji, Taoist studies, and related disciplines, Master Huang is a popular author and in-demand speaker at conferences, workshops, online seminars including a TedX talk.
From the renowned Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, to the world’s major capitals, Master Huang has shared the stage with luminaries such as the Dalai Lama, Br. David Steindl-Rast, and Jane Goodall; and held seminars with Joseph Campbell, Alan Watts, Huston Smith, Gregory Bateson, and John Blofeld. He has been an assembly member and presenter at The Council for the Parliament of the World’s Religions and has been a keynote speaker for the YPO (Young Presidents’ Organization) and WPO (World Presidents’ Organization) and at major global gatherings in China, India, Switzerland, Germany, South America, South Africa, and Bali. In 1988 he was featured in the inaugural segment of the PBS series, A World of Ideas, moderated by Bill Moyers.
Master Huang is a best-selling author of books on mind/body/spirit integration. His books including the classic Embrace Tiger, Return to Mountain, which has been translated into 17 languages and has been in publication since 1973. Other popular titles include Essential Tai Ji, Quantum Soup, The Chinese Book of Animal Powers, Tai Ji Dancing for Kids, and Chinese Symbols for Baby Brains. He co-authored Tao: The Watercourse Way with Alan Watts, and a series of books with Jerry Lynch on sports/body/mind training including the best-selling Thinking Body, Dancing Mind, and Mentoring: The Tao of Giving and Receiving Wisdom. Of this book Phil Jackson, former coach of the Chicago Bulls, said. “Al Huang and Jerry Lynch have joined Eastern Tao to Western ideas to give us another philosophical lessen—this time on mentoring. In my business mentoring counts more that motivation and as I read this new collaboration, I found many ideas that I can use in my daily and professional life.”