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Gordon Faulkner

Gordon is the Director and Principal Instructor of the Chanquanshu School of Daoist Arts, a school that teaches yangsheng (nourishing the vital principle) practices that cover martial, medical and meditational arts.

He is also the President for Scotland & Wales in the European Daoyin Yangsheng Gong Federation, Specialist Advisor to the UK Qigong Teachers Association and at the moment he teaches primarily in Scotland, Wales, Switzerland, Germany and Belgium.

He is also a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society and a member of the Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding. And also works with the Maggie's Cancer Care Centres where he has been using qigong from his book ‘Managing Stress with Qigong’, especially the stress prevention exercises, to great effect.

Gordon is an Armed Forces Veteran with 22 years’ service in the Royal Air Force and was a founder member and General Secretary of the Royal Air Force Martial Arts Federation until retirement from military service in 1993.