YMAA Retreat Center Newsletter - Issue #1

November 2006

• Welcome to the YMAA Retreat Center
• For Future Generations
• Progress
• Project Goals
• Four Main Purposes of the Retreat Center
• Recent Supporters

Welcome to the YMAA Retreat Center

The Retreat Center is a new nonprofit facility currently under construction. Spanning 240 acres of land in Humboldt County of Northern California, the Retreat Center promises to be an ambitious, unique, and groundbreaking project. When completed, world-renowned Chinese martial arts master, Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming, will accept 15 exceptional students to live and train with him at the Retreat Center for the next 10 years.

For Future Generations

The deeper aspects of the Chinese arts are rarely taught in modern day. Even in China, due to the suppression of the arts during the Cultural Revolution, nearly all of this higher knowledge has been lost or destroyed. Dr. Yang is one of the few remaining masters of Traditional Tai Chi, Qigong, and Kung Fu who wishes to share and pass down his full knowledge of the arts. He hopes to preserve the legacy of the older generation: methods, techniques, morality, healing, and spirituality. Now at age 60, Dr. Yang has committed himself to spending the next 10 years of his life working on this project to ensure that the light of this ancient wisdom can grow brighter for future generations. The benefits of Tai Chi, Qigong, and meditation are now actively being studied by modern medical science, so it becomes vital that we create a solid bridge between Eastern and Western philosophies, bringing our society to a higher level of well-being, awareness, and peace.

The size and great feat of this nonprofit project prevents Dr. Yang from being able to do it alone, though great progress has been made, and the feedback so far has been very positive. A Donor program has been created to make it easy for you to get involved in this unprecedented project. Some benefits for Donors include an invitation to the Retreat Center for special events, faculty chair positions, and the naming of facilities after them.