Shifu Lindsey Wei
Develop a spiritual practice that leaves you stronger, clearer, and deeply grounded — steady enough to carry awakening into everyday life.
Train in authentic Daoist meditation practices and rituals to harmonize and refine your Qi, deepen your connection to the sacred, and lay the living foundation for embodied awakening.
The Daoism most people encounter today has too often been stripped of the disciplined inner work that stabilizes your energy, clears your mind, and transforms your consciousness at its root — promising instead a fast track to awakening and transformation.
The sacred technologies that are left out of modern practice — such as hand seals, healing tones, bowing rituals, and sacred invocations — are vital elements on the Daoist map for true transformation.
Thankfully, the ancient lineage of Daoist meditation has been preserved. Lineage bearers such as Shifu Lindsey Wei, a 24th-generation lay disciple of the Chun Yang Sect of Wudang Daoism and founder of Wudang White Horse Martial Arts School, bring these authentic spiritual tools back to the forefront.
In this 10-module training from Shifu Lindsey, you will be guided through sacred technologies to awaken the power of sound and language as living transmission — weaving protective light through your cells, fortifying your Qi, and clearing subtle disturbances in your field.
As you create your Daoist altar and enter ritualized meditation, your physical space becomes sanctified — a threshold between worldswhere devotion steadies the heart and the Dao becomes palpable —where you can prepare body, mind, and spirit for embodied higher consciousness rather than fleeting downloads or epiphanies.
Having trained in Traditional Chinese Qigong in a remote Wudang Mountain temple under Grandmaster Li Xing De, she brings rare access to original Daoist ritual practices for grounded awakening, harmonizing your organs with the elements, and creating the foundations for real Internal Alchemy that are seldom taught in full context in the West.
You’ll learn sacred Chinese practices such as Sleeping Dragon for improved sleep and focus — and mantras such as the Golden Light Spirit Mantra that function as a vibrational code, embedding protective light within your body.
You’ll also be guided to create a Daoist altar, transforming physical space into a sacred container for dialogue with higher guides and the Dao.
And, you’ll receive a clear and uncompromised understanding of why ritual, devotion, protection, and disciplined meditation are preparatory stages for awakening.
Shifu Lindsey is both a practitioner and transmitter of a living lineage. Her teaching bridges temple practices and contemporary clarity without diluting the tradition.
If you feel called to enter an ancient initiatory path for awakening, this course provides the depth, rigor, and sacred container required to prepare the ground for true Internal Alchemy.
During this Daoist meditation course, you’ll:
- Explore the foundations and rituals of Daoist meditation
- Learn the Golden Light Spirit Mantra in Mandarin Chinese for protection and healing
- Communicate with your organs to optimize function
- Discover the sequence of a traditional Daoist incense offering ceremony
- Create a Daoist altar and receive recommendations for incense, candles, cloth, incense cauldrons, and meditation cushions
- Gain a complete understanding of the authentic tradition of Daoist alchemy — and its initiatory path
- Explore the art of mind fasting, Xin Zhai — and how it frees you from the incessant and tiring rumination of the logical mind and renews your vitality
- Discover the Sleeping Dragon meditation lineage, position, and practice — aligning acupoints while sleeping — to enhance meditation quality and duration as well as sleep
- Harness the energy of one of the stars in the Big Dipper
- Learn 5 Daoist hand seals and how to apply them in seated meditation to enhance Qi, healing, and concentration
- Be guided in the Five Tone Healing Song, Wu Yin Ge, which harmonizes the 5 internal organs with the 5 elements
- Explore the Shang Qing Body Spirits Invocation meditation method to unlock spiritual resources that dwell within your body
What You’ll Discover in These 10 Modules
In this 10-module self-paced transformational course, Shifu Lindsey guides you through the skills and competencies you’ll need to take your meditative practice to the next level through authentic Daoist meditation techniques and rituals designed as preparation for awakening and true Internal Alchemy.
The Beauty of On-Demand
This course features step-by-step teachings and experiential practices from Shifu Lindsey. Each session builds harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to catalyze your spiritual evolution through the wisdom of an ancient Daoist lineage. Your purchase includes 24/7 ongoing access to your course content, allowing you time to review the materials at your own pace and integration.
Please Note: If you have not experienced Shifu Lindsey’s teachings before, you’re welcome to join this next-level course but we ask that you complete the foundational 7-module The Daoist Art of Longevity With Wudang Qigong program on your own as a prerequisite. It will be included in your registration and can be completed before or in tandem with this advanced intensive.
Module 1 Invoke Protection & Healing With the Golden Light Spirit Mantra and Harness Language as a Tool for Manifestation
Become familiar with spirit incantations — conjuring and creating protective golden light around your body through voice and sound.
The art of memorizing and embedding a language code into you is a central practice of Daoism. You’ll begin with learning a mantra from the Ba Da Shen Zhou Eight Great Spirit Incantations.
Shifu Lindsey demonstrates how this 25-line Golden Light Spirit Mantra invokes healing light within and around your body using sound, prayer, and intention to purify cells, protect the body, and radiate positive frequency outwards.
This jin guang is a foundation for Daoist Medicine, Qigong, and alchemy, and is memorized, incanted, and cultivated over a period of 49 days. This session provides a great introduction to the Chinese language and Daoist beliefs through sacred text.
In this opening session, you’ll:
- Experience the function and results of the practice of eastern religious mantra recitation
- Empower your words as you learn how to use language and the voice as a tool of manifestation
- Learn how to pronounce 26 four-character lines in Mandarin Chinese and the meaning behind the words
- Receive a PDF of the mantra in Chinese simplified characters, Pin Yin, and English
- Receive an audio recording of the mantra recited by Shifu Lindsey to assist your learning and practice
- Be guided in a listening meditation to fully receive subtle transmissions encoded in the Chinese language
Module 2 Learn the Daoist Foundations of Seated Meditation & Create an Altar to Cultivate Stillness, Tranquility, and Connection to the Sacred
The Daoist altar is an ancient communication device central to the practice of seated meditation — ritualizing the act of prayer through space, movement, meditation — and inviting in wisdom from higher guides.
In this session, Shifu Lindsey demonstrates how to create a physical space where you can meditate and practice the rituals learned in this course.
You’ll have the option to create one or both styles of Daoist altar. One will be the home altar built according to traditional requirements, and the other will be what is called a Tu Di Shen Tan…
… a very ancient form of altar that began as a mound of earth outside in nature, with a small bowl for offering incense.
This place will support your home practice, help you communicate with the Dao — the divine mystery — and cultivate stillness, tranquility, and sacred connection.
In this session, you’ll:
- Begin to create a Daoist altar and receive recommendations for incense, candles, cloth, incense cauldrons, meditation cushions
- Receive a special digital file of the character “Dao” 道 painted by Grandmaster Li Xing De for the altar
- Understand the purpose of east asian religious altars — and how they are used as an ancient technology
- Learn about the foundations of Daoist seated meditation — posture, location, apophasis/emptiness, breathing methods, and inner observation
- Be guided in a practice for mantra recitation during meditation
Module 3 Create Space for the Tranquil & Regenerative Spirit Mind to Emerge Through Mind Fasting
Mind fasting, or Xin Zhai, offers relief from incessant rumination as you encounter the mind in a different way, leading to greater health and vitality.
Previously, you learned to observe and detach from the endless stream of thoughts generated by the mind. In this session, you’ll gain tools to refuse the habit and impulse to follow thoughts and projections.
Very similar to physical fasting, you’ll explore how to persevere and possibly distract yourself with something else when you feel hunger — such as hydration or a task.
Fasting the mind creates space for the spirit to come forward — the spirit mind naturally exists in a state of tranquility and optimal physical regeneration.
You’ll also have the opportunity to engage in physical fasting methods as Shifu Lindsey shares several fasting options based on what works for your life and constitution.
In this session, you’ll:
- Discover how mind fasting, Xin Zhai, frees you from the incessant and tiring rumination of the logical mind — and renews your vitality
- Learn about several optional physical fasting methods — intermittent fasting, a 24-hour water fast, and a 3-day vegan diet
- Explore the benefits of intermittent fasting — improved metabolic health, weight loss, boosting brain function, and cellular repair
- Be guided in a mind fast meditation to engage the mind in a new way and experience true tranquility
Module 4 Deepen Your Meditation Practice & Enhance Clarity and Peace With a Traditional Ritualized Incense Offering
Journey deeper into ritualizing meditation for peace and meaning as you explore the physical sequence — including hand seals and bowing — of a traditional incense offering ceremony used in Daoist temples across China.
Shifu Lindsey shares how every motion is specific — from how to light the incense sticks, to which hand is used to offer the incense, to special hand formations for placing.
Following the offering of incense is the bowing ritual, a graceful form of movement designed to nourish the post-heaven essence, open the right hemisphere of the brain, and transcend the ego to reduce self-focus.
In this session, you’ll:
- Observe the sequence of a traditional Daoist incense offering ceremony
- Explore the power of prayer through a Daoist lens — and a method to approach it with reverence
- Learn how traditional movements of Daoist bowing are used in all temples
- Discover daily rituals that align the mind and body with spirit and create peace and meaning
- Be guided in opening and closing procedures for seated meditation for harvesting and storing Qi in the dantian
- Be guided in a meditation to reduce self-focus and enhance peace
Module 5 Cultivate the 8 Daoist Virtues to Shift Heavy Emotions, Move Past Barriers & Harmonize Relationships
Virtue is a key foundation of Internal Alchemy. The first session of Grandmaster’s alchemy course consists of a text called 49 Barriers by Liu Yi Ming that describes these guan — the barriers a human must overcome in their inner nature and personal character cultivation.
They include challenges such as irritability, arrogance, illusion, lack of faith, jealousy, resentment, wealth, and laziness.
You’ll explore this text and learn how to practice the Eight Virtues of xiao, ti, zhong, xin, li, yi, lian, chi; filial piety, sibling harmony, loyalty, trustworthiness, etiquette, justice, honor, and shame. Striving to understand these virtues is a standard expected of adepts and students on the path of the Dao, and is also the key to success in neidan.
In this session, you’ll:
- Practice the eight Daoist virtues — xiao, ti, zhong, xin, li, yi, lian, chi — to deepen self-cultivation and your meditation practice
- Discover the connection between virtue, meditation, and Internal Alchemy
- Review etiquette outlines on how to exist harmoniously in a martial or Daoist community
- Explore the inner-nature transformation aspect of Internal Alchemy
- Find methods to overcome challenging interpersonal dynamics
- Find peace in meditation and daily life by cultivating how to let go of difficulties and grievances
- Be guided in a meditation practice for cultivating virtue
Module 6 Activate the Power of Daoist Hand Seals in Meditation to Build & Shift Qi, Amplify Healing and Connect With Higher Guidance
It is said that the three arts of Chun Yang school are jue, fa, zhou — hand seal, talisman, and mantra. In this module, you’ll explore the power of hand seals, also known as mudras, or arrangements of the hands and fingers that create a signature, a symbol, a shift, or communication in the spirit world.
Shifu Lindsey demonstrates how they can also be used to aid in concentration of energy in meditation and in healing application. Jue are used frequently in Daoist ceremonies, and also in Daoist medicine.
In this session, you’ll:
- Learn about five Daoist hand seals and how to apply them in seated meditation to enhance Qi, healing, and guidance
- Discover why hand seals are an important tool in the toolkit of a Daoist ritual artist and healer
- Coalesce Qi in the upper, middle, and lower dantians
- Begin to move the small heavenly orbit through building Qi in the three dantians
- Be guided in a meditation that weaves in hand seals to enhance healing and connection
Module 7 Stimulate Immunity & Promote Metabolic Renewal by Harmonizing Your Organs and the Elements With the 5: Tone Healing Song
Discover the Wu Yin Ge, or Five Tone Healing Song, a sacred Qigong practice transmitted through the Five Immortals Temple lineage by Master Shen Wu, a renowned teacher of music therapy who collaborated with institutions such as the John A. Burns School of Medicine.
Rooted in the ancient Chinese understanding that music is medicine — reflected in the character for “medicine,” which combines the pictograph for music with the radical for herb…
… this practice uses the original pentatonic tones jue, zhi, gong, shang, and yu to vibrationally harmonize the five internal organs of liver, heart, spleen, lungs, and kidneys, and the five elements of wood, fire, earth, metal, and water.
Through a simple four-verse melody, you'll be encouraged to activate your voice to release unhealthy or stagnant Qi, draw in fresh life force, stimulate immunity, support cellular resonance, and promote metabolic renewal.
By creating harmonious oscillation between sound waves, organs, brain, and breath, the Five Tone Healing Song functions both as a profound meditation technique and as an internal energetic medicine that balances body and mind, restores coherence to the organ systems, and cultivates unity between human life and the rhythms of heaven and earth.
In this session, you’ll:
- Experience the Five Tone Healing Song, Wu Yin Ge — which promotes health and wellbeing by harmonizing the five internal organs with the five elements
- Tonify the 5 elements system within the organs, creating increased well being and health
- Become comfortable with visualization of colors within the organs, an ancient Daoist meditation method
- Activate energy centers — including the pineal gland — through sound
- Experience the “heavenly tunes” sound healing track used to treat cancer and many other ailments
- Be guided in a sound-healing meditation to harmonize your inner state
Module 8 Increase the Quality & Duration of Your Meditation Through the Sleeping Dragon Position and Practice
Sleeping Dragon is a lying-down meditation position, as well as a sleep practice. It is used to preserve jing, Qi, and shen that would be lost through sleeping and dreaming.
Often, your dreams are chaotic and not restful — just as your mind can be during the daytime.
Through Zhe Long Fa , Shifu Lindsey shows how to control the mind even during unconscious sleep, thereby improving sleep quality while also increasing the amount of time spent in meditation every day. This method has profound results.
In this session, you’ll:
- Discover the Sleeping Dragon meditation position and practice — aligning acupoints while sleeping — to enhance meditation quality and duration and sleep
- Learn about the Sleeping Dragon lineage — and enjoy readings of poems written by the ancient practitioners that convey the mysteries of the practice
- Explore the visualization involving the seven stars of the Big Dipper — and harness the energy of one of the stars, using a new hand seal for placing over the dantian
- Embody a waking sequence to end the sleep practice — closing motions, mantra, and Qigong posture
- Begin a sleep journal to better understand your sleep quality and dreams as a reflection of your daily cultivation
Module 9 Unlock Spiritual Resources That Live Within Your Body With the Shang Qing Body Spirits Invocation
The understanding of spirits residing in the human body first appears in the Huang Ting Jing (Yellow Court Scripture), written by Wei Hua Cun of the Shang Qing School of Daoism.
Huang Ting Jing was a visualization manual from 288 C.E. describing luminosities within the organs capable of providing spiritual resources, protection, and healing.
You'll be guided in the Shang Qing Body Spirits Invocation meditation method with tonal sound healing and color visualizations. The names of these organ spirits can also be found on the Nei Jing Tu — Internal Landscape Map — an essential diagram used in Internal Alchemy.
You’ll also explore the Upper Clarity texts to further understand this branch of Daoism and how it viewed the internal landscape and human anatomy as an ecosystem.
In this session, you’ll:
- Explore the Shang Qing Body Spirits Invocation meditation method to unlock spiritual resources that dwell within your body
- Discover sound healing therapies utilizing mantras
- Enhance your ability to enter stillness and apophasis in meditation
- Learn how to heal the five organs and five elements system within the body
- Communicate with your organs to optimize function
- Review the names of body spirits in Chinese with characters, pinyin, and English translation provided
Module 10 Understanding the Daoist Internal Alchemy Path - *the Way of the Elixir* - and its Initiations
In this final module, Shifu Lindsey shares exactly what Internal Alchemy Nei Dan is, the differences in schools of thought, and the common misperceptions of it in the West.
You’ll review what the true foundation and timeline is for this transformation, and the correct path and mindset to approach it with. You will not be learning any cultivation methods of alchemy such as water wheels and firing times.
In this session, you’ll:
- Gain a complete understanding of what the authentic tradition of Daoist Alchemy is — and its initiatory path
- Explore alchemical texts and resources
- Learn how the microcosmic orbit supports the path of Internal Alchemy
- Gain clarification on the female pathway — and an outline on how to prepare the cycle for women
- Explore answers to some of life’s fundamental questions and hardships
Lindsey Wei’s Introductory Course, The Daoist Art of Longevity With Wudang Qigong
This intensive builds upon the core teachings from the 7-module program, The Daoist Art of Longevity With Wudang Qigong. When you purchase the 10-module intensive, you gain access to that powerful resource as well! You can complete the core teachings at your leisure, but it’s best to begin before the new sessions start.
In this 7-module transformational course, Wei Shifu guides you through the skills and competencies you’ll need to successfully create a daily Yang Sheng practice for longevity and energy renewal.
This course features step-by-step teachings and experiential practices from Wei Shifu. Each session builds harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to restore your natural vitality through ancient Qigong practices. Your purchase includes 24/7 ongoing access to your course content, allowing you time to review the materials at your own pace and integration.
- Module 1: Awaken Life Energy and Longevity to Feel Light and Free
- Module 2: Harmonize Duality By Supporting Your Yin & Yang Energy
- Module 3: Experience Seven Star Tapping to Detoxify Your Body's Meridians
- Module 4: Cultivate Intention and Presence With Integrated Prayer and Movement
- Module 5: Strengthen Your Spine & Fascial Matrix With Yang Sheng Breathing
- Module 6: Fortify Your Foundation by Strengthening the Kidneys & Detoxifying the Lungs
- Module 7: Purify Your Microcosmic Orbit & Develop Qi for Advanced Healing
PLUS, you’ll get the The Daoist Art of Longevity With Wudang Qigong Bonus Offering
- Column of Light
- Yang Sheng (Life Nourishment) Lifestyle Lecture by Li Shi Fu
The original price of The Daoist Art of Longevity With Wudang Qigong on its own was $347, but it’s INCLUDED in your registration for the advanced course!
SPECIAL BONUS OFFER
In addition to Lindsey’s transformative 10-module course, you’ll receive this special bonus offering to complement the course and take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.
Self-Inquiry Seated Meditation
Exploring “Who am I?” With Shifu Lindsey Wei
Self inquiry is a process of deconstructing self through the question "Who am I?" during seated meditation. This method challenges the default program of the mind built on the notion of separateness. During this guided meditation with Shifu Lindsey Wei, you’ll sit with this question and experience its potential. Through the peeling back of layers and sifting through the mud, you can sometimes find a gem, which is your own spirit becoming present.
Shang Qing Body Spirits Visualization
Lecture + Meditation on the Internal Spirits With Johan Hausen
In this lecture presentation, Johan Hausen, founder of Purple Cloud Press, shares 3rd-century (Western Jin Dynasty) illustrations of internal organs and spirits believed to reside within them. The visualization of these internal “lights” within the organs was a practice common within the Upper Clarity School of Daoism. Following the lecture is a meditation to tune into the inner light of the organs.
The Arts of Daoism
PDF Excerpt on the Hibernating Dragon
This is a special excerpt from The Arts of Daoism by Xing De. You’ll explore the method of the Hibernating Dragon, as translated by Johan Hausen and Allen Tsuar. You’ll also discover the techniques used for cultivating the mind during sleep, including position, hand seals, incantations, and visualizations.
Discourse on Transforming Inner Nature by Wang Feng Yi
PDF Excerpt to Transform Your Emotional State
In this compelling excerpt (Chapters 1-3) from the remarkable book by Wang Feng Yi (translated by Johan Hausen and Jonas Akers,) you’ll find a true testament to the benefits of Daoist spiritual cultivation. Wang Feng Yi’s teachings are like thoughtful and profound prose that can allow people to transform their own emotional states, and experience healing at the deepest level.
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Here’s What You’ll Receive
Ten Pre-Recorded 90-Minute Modules
Experience a unique opportunity to learn from martial arts and Qigong instructor Shifu Lindsey Wei, founder of Wudang White Horse Martial Arts School — from the comfort of your own home. Each session includes a streaming video and guides you toward embodied spirituality through ancient Daoist meditation practices and rituals.
Ten Transcripts of Sessions
You’ll also receive session transcriptions. You can then review, print, and highlight the most important insights and practices you were given..
Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson
Between sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each lesson.
Lindsey Wei’s Introductory Course, The Daoist Art of Longevity With Wudang Qigong 7-Module Course and Bonuses is included!
When you sign up for this 10-module journey, you’ll get instant access to Lindsey’s first 7-module online course.
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join the Online Course, The Daoist Meditation Path for Spiritual Alignment
We feel honored that Shifu Lindsey Wei has chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive LIVE online course. This is a unique opportunity to interact directly with a martial arts and Qigong instructor, and founder of Wudang White Horse Martial Arts School whose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world.
If you’re serious about learning the foundations for Daoist Internal Alchemy, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones, and our world to take this one-of-a-kind program.
Please Note: If you have not experienced Shifu Lindsey’s teachings before, you’re welcome to join this next-level course but we ask that you complete the foundational 7-module The Daoist Art of Longevity With Wudang Qigong program on your own as a prerequisite. It will be included in your registration and can be completed before or in tandem with this advanced intensive.
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About Shifu Lindsey Wei
Lindsey Wei is a 24th-generation lay disciple of the Chun Yang Sect of Wudang Daoism. She trained in Traditional Chinese Qigong at a remote mountain temple in the Wudang Mountains, Hubei Province, and in China under her master Li Xing De for more than nine years before returning to the U.S. in 2010 to start her martial arts teaching career.
She is a practitioner of Tai Ji Quan, Qigong, Ba Gua, and Double Edge Straight Sword (Jian), as well as other weapons arts. She is passionate about combining ancestral skills and Indigenous worldviews for how to steward the Earth and exist and thrive in wild places, with the life way of internal martial arts cultivation and health practices.
Lindsey leads martial arts training camps in wilderness settings, in the context of studying the Dao as it follows nature. She also teaches online courses, as well as at in-person camps at varying locations in southern Oregon, on Takelma and Klamath native lands.
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