The late Grand Master John Tsai was a world-renowned Shaolin Kung Fu Grand Master and 17th generation Master of Meihua Qigong.  Born in China, he began studying Shaolin Kung Fu at the young age of seven, and dedicated more than six decades to continued research, education and refinement of the art.  He created a system that taught tens of thousands of students worldwide.

He opened his first Shaolin Kung Fu school in Chicago’s Chinatown in 1965. By 1972, the school had expanded to twenty-six locations throughout the Midwest. Grand Master Tsai personally trained over two hundred national and international competitors, including amateur and professional champions and a US Olympic Gold medalist.

Grandmaster Tsai (called GMT for short), began intensive internal qigong study with 16th Generation Grand Master Zhang in 1983 in Taiwan.  After Master Zhang’s death, GMT became the last living student of the 500 year old lineage of Meihua Qigong medicine.

The focus of Meihua is to clean the qi. With clean qi, man can act moral and be of a high character and caliber, for himself and his fellow man. This same clean qi turns on the innate intelligence of the body, where it revitalizes energy and reverses the damages of stress and disease.

GMT shared this powerful medicine with many students, some of which became his Inner Circle.

Grandmaster Tsai passed in 2020. He left his legacy to the 18th (USA) and 19th (France) lineages that bowed in under his mastery. He is fondly remembered for the remarkable and powerful teacher he was.