Be Well. Live Long.
Transform Your Mind, Body & Spirit
with this time-proven health cultivation system.
Welcome to the Da Yan Academy
The #1 online learning platform dedicated to teaching Wild Goose Qigong - an ancient Chinese system for physical, mental and spiritual growth.
With its origins in Daoism, Wild Goose (Da Yan) Qigong | 大雁氣功 has been collected and refined for over 1,800 years, and passed on by 29 generations of Grandmasters. It is recognised as one of China's best and most effective Qigong systems.
Today, the system survives as a comprehensive treasure trove of mind-body practices and techniques - for wellbeing, medical, martial & spiritual applications - practised by millions world-wide.
Why Practise Wild Goose Qigong?
Qigong is a simple yet effective practice for all ages and abilities. Qigong will nourish you and continue to serve you into your later years. Here's top 10 reasons to do Qigong....
#1 Live Long, Well & with Purpose
Nourish life following Daoist principles (養生), improving longevity and discovering deeper meaning, connection, and purpose.
#2 Increase Energy & Vitality
Activate untapped levels of latent physical, mental and spiritual energy - boosting stamina, creativity and overall vitality.
#3 Build Strength, Flexibility & Balance
Move with fluidity and balance, improve body strength, increase your range of motion, whatever your current age or ability.
#4 Reduce Pain & Stiffness
Gentle movements lubricate joints, reduce inflammation and allow you to enjoy a more pain-free life, even into old age.
#5 Lower Stress, Anxiety & Blood Pressure
Reduce the effects of chronic stress - the root cause of over 80% of many disorders and disease, including hypertension.
#6 Improve Sleep & Recovery
Enhance the quality of your sleep, aiding your body in repair and restoration, so you wake up feeling refreshed and energized.
#7 Boost Immunity & Heal Faster
Increase your body’s immune response, promote circulation of blood and energy, and speed up recovery from illness or injury.
#8 Enhance Respiratory & Heart Health
Breathing techniques improve lung and respiratory function, support heart function, and help regulate blood pressure.
#9 Cultivate Calm & Stillness
Achieve a deep inner calm and relaxation through a range of meditative techniques, harmonizing the Heart, Mind and Breath.
#10 Improve Focus, Clarity & Productivity
Enhance emotional and cognitive function, helping you stay clear-minded and focused, even in these times of distraction.
Why the Da Yan Academy?
System: an authentic, safe, effective, time-proven Qigong System.
Shifu: a skilled Teacher, certified, with the experience and ability to unpack and teach you that system.
Courses: on-demand video training, so you can learn what you want, where and when you want.
Community: a nurturing, motivating space to connect with and support other students, like yourself.
Coaching: via mentoring, LIVE 1-to-1, masterclasses and events. Keeping you motivated and on course.
All this is all available right now in the Da Yan Academy...
The NEST Community
Practise alongside other students like yourself in our private online community. We learn better and journey further in community. The Nest is a place for us to connect, share our journey and grow together.
Online Courses & Training
24/7 access to the Da Yan Library: a growing treasure house of unique gongs (forms) from the extensive Wild Goose Qigong system. Currently includes 5 detailed courses, 200+ videos. See Courses.
Monthly LIVE Q&A + Replays
Jump on a monthly Q&A Zoom with the Da Yan Academy's Founder Shifu Gregg Wagstaff. Get your questions answered with a mix of Q&A, mentoring and training, plus deepen your practice and connection with others.
Personal Mentoring | 1-to-1
Accelerate your learning and results. If you want to take your practice to a deeper level with Da Yan Academy's Founder Shifu Gregg Wagstaff, then Personal Mentoring and 1-to-1 sessions are additionally available (online or in-person).
In-person Retreats & Events
In-person retreats, workshops & classes with Da Yan Academy's Founder & Shifu Gregg Wagstaff. See here for forthcoming events TBC.
Further Training
The Da Yan Academy will also host further trainings on related subjects such as: Qi Therapy, Yang Sheng 養生(Art of Nourishing Life), Daoism, Traditional Chinese Medicine, optimal health, longevity, mastery and more.
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Your Wild Goose Qigong Journey Begins Here...
1. Start your subscription with a risk free 7 Day Free Trial of the Da Yan Academy.
2. Get immediate access to our growing library of over $450 of trainings + The Nest Community + monthly LIVE Q&A (and recordings).
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Plus these FREE Bonuses...
Bonus #1
The Nest Community
We learn better and journey further together. 'The Nest', is a place for us to connect, share experiences, ask questions and help each other. Accessed via a free mobile app, the community is the new gateway to the Da Yan Academy.
FREE with membership
Bonus #2
LIVE Monthly Q&A + Replays
Every month you'll be invited to attend a live Zoom with the Da Yan Academy's Founder and Senior Instructor, ShIfu Gregg Wagstaff. A mixture of Q&A and Masterclass.
Value $50 / month.
FREE with membership
Bonus #3
Course Certification
Optional Online Assessment & Digital Certification on completion and video submission (moving forms only). Required if you wish to progress to Teacher Training program. Value $50 per 'gong' / form.
FREE with membership
What Students Are Saying...
Philip Stoyanov - University Lecturer (Bulgaria)
" All my life I have studied Martial Arts, Yoga and other Eastern Practices. I was looking into different schools of Yoga and Qigong because I wanted to find a system which is complete and easy to explore from my Western point of view and lifestyle. My search brought me to Wild Goose Qigong, the Da Yan Academy, and Gregg.
In the Da Yan Academy, the core materials are online video trainings. The videos are very thorough and easy to follow. When I started, many positive and interesting experiences came to me. Now I feel more relaxed and my body feels more loose. I can touch the floor with my palms without any preliminary exercise. After my training sessions, I feel the energy in my body and if I stay quiet, for example during Jing Gong meditation, I can feel the Qi circulating. My palms feel like two heaters. "
Janice Fields (Texas, USA)
"At 71 years of age, my interest in Wild Goose Qigong began quite some time ago when I bought a DVD of the 1st 64 and loved the graceful moves of the demonstration. I wanted very much to learn the form, but I could not learn at that time from only the DVD, and there was scant material available. Recently more DVDs and books have been published, and I was able to learn something from them. But I was always searching for better sources, and I feel really lucky to have found the Da Yan Academy and Gregg on YouTube. I felt right away that he was the teacher I had been looking for.
The training videos are clear and thorough, beautifully demonstrated and explained in a way that is easy to understand and follow. I was convinced before I began the 1-to-1 coaching sessions online that there could be very little that was not covered in the videos, but after a few sessions with Gregg, I have found that small corrections can make a huge difference in my performance and understanding. Gregg has studied with excellent teachers. He explains each movement in clear and simple terms that a beginner can follow. This ease and simplicity can come only from a deep understanding of the material."
Adam Gibson - Qigong Instructor (UK)
" I would recommend Gregg to anyone interested in learning authentic Wild Goose (Da Yan) Qigong. He is a good instructor. He has good knowledge of Dayan Qigong and TCM, and is both calm and patient when he teaches. After spending a couple of years learning with Gregg, he helped me to go to China to learn from his teachers. It was something I'd always dreamed of! Dayan Qigong is one of the few qigong systems that still carries a lot of depth! It never ceases to amaze me as I continue to explore its movements and teachings! "
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About Your Instructor & Lineage
衛仕達
Hello, I’m Gregg Wagstaff, Founder of the Da Yan Academy and Senior Instructor for the Da Yan / Wild Goose Qigong Association (UK) since 2002. I trained in the UK and China under Master Chan Kim Fung (Hong Kong) and Master Wang Tai Li (Beijing), both 'in-door' students of the the 27th generation Grandmaster Yang Mei June [see below]. I received a blessing from Grandmaster Yang shortly before her passing in June 2002.
Wild Goose Qigong changed my life and in the process helped me overcome a long standing anxiety disorder. So much so, I also retrained to become a UK qualified Acupuncturist and Tui Na (Chinese Medical Massage) therapist. In 2004, I opened GreggsClinic.com - combining these TCM modalities to help clients achieve optimal health and wellbeing.
Wild Goose Qigong will bring you to a deeper experience of your physical, energetic and spiritual body. My purpose - as a teacher, mentor, shifu - is to share, demonstrate and unfold what others have passed down to me. So, ‘spread your wings’ and journey with me for a while. See you in the Academy!
杨梅君
In the last years of the Qing Dynasty (c. 1909), at the age of 13, Yang Mei June was chosen by her Grandfather, Yang De Shan (then the 26th generation Grandmaster), to be the sole inheritor of the Kunlun Da Yan Qigong system and title.
Helped by her skill, she managed to survive the bloodiest century in China’s history. Only in 1978, after the fall of Mao, did she feel safe to break with tradition and begin teaching Da Yan Qigong publicly for the well-being of everyone.
The 27th generation Grandmaster, Yang Mei June quickly became highly respected in the Qigong and Internal Martial Arts circles, especially for her healing capabilities.
Yang Mei June passed away on July 23rd, 2002 at the age of 106. Through her, millions of people in various parts of the world now benefit from this practice. Wild Goose is recognized as one of China’s most ancient, authentic and effective systems of Qigong.
陳劍峰
In 1994, Chan Kim Fung was accepted as an “in door” student of the 27th Generation Grandmaster, Yang Mei June. She called him 二陳 (Chen the Second). In 2000, she appointed him as ‘Overseas General Manager’ of the Da Yan Qigong Headquarters (established in 1979) in Beijing.
In his recent book, Master Chan writes, 'In 1999, Yang Mei June told me, Wang Tai Li has good gōngfu / 功夫 / skill. You must help him to come out of the mountains." [chūshān / 出山]
Master Chan took early retirement to honour Yang Mei June's request, enable his study of Traditional Chinese Medicine and further promote Wild Goose Qigong. He is also Chairman of the Da Yan Qigong Association in Hong Kong and UK.
王泰力
Wang Tai Li was accepted as an “in door” student of Yang Mei June in the early 1990’s. This was the beginning of a close 10-year student-master relationship that lasted right up until her passing in June 2002 at the age of 106. During this time Grandmaster Yang passed her knowledge to her disciple Wang and he also became her carer. In 2000, she bequeathed him the Da Yan Qigong Headquarters.
In 2017, Master Wang and Master Chan co-authored a book on the Wild Goose Qigong’s 1st 64, including case studies and therapeutic applications. Master Wang is now based in Shenzhen, running clinics and a training centre in Hong Kong & Beijing. Here he integrates his high level Da Yan Qigong skills of Qi diagnosis (vision) and therapy (Qi emission).
About The Wild Goose
Some time during the ancient Jin Dynasty (265–420 C.E.), Daoist monks living in the Kunlun Mountains originated a system of health and self-cultivation exercises, known today as Kunlun Da Yan (Wild Goose) Qigong.
The Daoists closely observed and followed the ways of nature and were inspired by the bar-headed geese, which also inhabited these mountain plateaus.
Bar-headed geese, Da Yan 大雁 (literally = ‘Great Goose’) are extraordinary: They migrate some 2,000-3,000 miles over the Himalayas. They fly higher than Mount Everest - having been recorded at 33,000 feet - in tail winds of up to 100 mph!
Their lungs recycle their breath, so that every available bit of oxygen is used. These great geese are long-lived, stay together through all seasons and mate for life.
The monks based their practice on the qualities, character and movements of the geese. They built into this system their Daoist understanding and insight into nature, medicine, martial arts, plus years of empirical science and deep meditation.
Over generations the Kunlun Da Yan Qigong system grew to include over 70 different sets of exercises, both dynamic (Dong Gong) and still / meditative (Jing Gong).