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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)
When Master Yo San Ni was born in China in 1879, the Ni family lineage had passed down a Taoist spiritual legacy and knowledge of Traditional Chinese Medicine for many generations. At the age of sixteen, Yo San went on a quest to rebuild his family's healing wisdom, as his father, a pediatrician, had perished during an epidemic outbreak while saving many villager’s kids. Yo San sought out relatives, friends, and patients, but most of all, the spiritual leaders and masters of Taoism and Traditional Chinese Medicine who had fled political oppression and lived as hermits in the mountains. In his thirties, Yo San began practicing medicine and then founded The College of Tao and Traditional Chinese Healing which offered instruction for both academic and spiritual growth.
MADAME CHEN TI YI
Mother of the Yellow Court
Taoist Spiritual Teacher
Encourager of Great Universal Harmony
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.