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North Star & The Big Dipper
DR. MAO SHING NI
D.O.M., PH.D, ABAAHP
COLLEGE OF TAO
CO-CHANCELLOR,
ORDAINED MINISTER,
MASTER TEACHER
Mao Shing Ni or Dr. Mao has been studying the Eight Pillars of taoist studies since he was a small child starting with tai chi, ba gua, qi gong and meditation and later, the I Ching, fengshui and the spiritual arts and finally culminating in achieving doctorate degrees in Chinese medicine and nutrition. Dr. Mao co-founded Yo San University of traditional Chinese medicine as well as the Tao Of Wellness. He is the author of over 20 books including the best selling Secrets of Longevity, an authoritative translation of the Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Medicine as well as many video and audio learning programs on qi gong, Tai chi and Taoist meditation. Dr. Mao has been interviewed extensively in the media and teaches retreats around the world. Besides his medical practice at the Tao Wellness in Santa Monica, Dr. Mao also makes himself available for online telemedicine consultation so that patients can still receive care from him no matter where they live. You can reach him at www.taoofwellness.com and
DR. DAOSHING NI
D.O.M., PH.D, MBA
COLLEGE OF TAO
CO-CHANCELLOR
ORDAINED MINISTER,
MASTER TEACHER
Daoshing Ni, or Dr. Dao, like his brother Mao Shing Ni, has received intensive training in Traditional Chinese Medicine and the Taoist tradition since his early childhood. He brings this wealth of knowledge into his medical practice, his teaching and his everyday life. He is a co-founder of Tao of Wellness, a Traditional Chinese Medical practice, where he specializes in reproductive and gynecological medicine. Dr. Dao is the co-author of Tao of Fertility and Sitting Moon: A Guide to Rejuvenation after Pregnancy. He is also the cofounder of Yo San University where he served as its president for many years. Dr. Dao and his brother, Dr. Mao are co-chancellors and create a balanced energy in this small yet deeply rooted family-like study environment where students make up the 39th generation of the Ni family healing legacy. Dr. Dao believes that to help achieve world peace, we must first be able to build a peaceful family and to build a peaceful family, we first need to cultivate ourselves. The real work takes place inside ourselves.
You can also find Dr. Dao at www.taoofwellness.com and www.yosan.edu
GRANDMASTER YO SAN NI
COLLEGE OF TAO FOUNDER (CHINA)
Born in China during a time of the great famine and social unrest, Yo San Ni was heir to a multi-generation family lineage of Taoist medicine and spiritual cultivation. After the early death of his father—who lost his life while treating children during a smallpox outbreak—Yo San dedicated himself to restoring his family’s healing wisdom. As a young man, he sought out monks, hermits, and physicians who had studied with his father, many of whom lived in seclusion after fleeing political upheaval. In his thirties, he established a medical practice and College of Tao—a Traditional Chinese Medicine school in Wenzhou, transmitting both clinical medicine and Taoist life cultivation. Yo San fulfilling his life’s aspiration to preserve and pass on a living tradition of healing grounded in compassion, discipline, and service.
MADAME CHENG, SHI-KUN
Mother of the Yellow Court | Taoist Spiritual Teacher
Born Cheng, Shi-Kun. Madame Ni was a spiritual teacher in the Taoist tradition known as the Mother of the Yellow Court, a female lineage emphasizing internal cultivation, intuitive wisdom, and embodied realization. Though not formally academic, she spoke fluently in the languages of Taoism, always expressing spiritual truth through practical life. Her cultivation focused on direct inner knowing—wisdom that arises without external instruction—and on spiritual freedom, the ability to come and go with ease, fully present within the body. She often offered this guiding image: “The mind is like a bright pearl, rolling freely with no obstruction,” believing it expressed the most essential truth shared across all spiritual traditions.
GRANDMASTER HUA CHING NI
(AKA OMNI)
COLLEGE OF TAO (TAIWAN, US)
Hua Ching Ni or OmNi brought his family’s teaching from China to Taiwan and then to the US in the 1976. He preserved the Integral Way Taoist teaching through the many books he has written. In 1985, he officially retired from his medical practice, which were continued by his sons, Drs. Mao Shing and Daoshing Ni as well as any active teaching through College of Tao which has been overseen by Dr. Mao Shing Ni. OmNi moved back to Asia in early 1990s and has been in seclusion and retreat ever since, even from his own family living a life of quietude and simplicity.