WU-TANG PHYSICAL CULTURE ASSOCIATION  7 1/2 SECOND AVENUE, 3RD FLOOR  NEW YORK, N.Y. 10003  212-533-1751

* Pa Kua Chang * Tai Chi Chuan * Hsing I Chuan * The Fighting for Health System  * Chi Gung * Mandarin for the Martial Artist * Taoist Martial Arts and Meditation

Any Wu Tang PCA student can request to participate in the instructor certification program and a select few are requested to do so. Then the student must meet the requirements of the course that they wish to teach which is done within their regularly attended classes, lessons, workshops and\or retreats. When the student has completed the requirements of their course and shown the ability to pass these skills on to the junior students in the association, the Chief Instructor of the association will award them their teaching certificate.

Course requirements are changing and fluid as the curriculum of the association continually grows. Instructors who were certified in the 1990's did not have to complete as strict a certification regimen as those certified in the first couple years of the 2000's and in 2003 the requirements for instructor certification have increased again. At each of these junctures, Wu Tang PCA Instructors have been fully qualified to teach the Internal Martial Arts and Taoist Energy arts as they were taught at The Wu Tang Physical Culture Association at the time of their study.

The Wu Tang Physical Culture Association has been in existence for almost two and a half decades but has only certified association instructors for the last ten of these years. During this decade relatively few students have spent the time and acquired the merit to become Wu tang PCA Instructors. These instructors and their subjects and eras are listed below:
 

Healing Tao USA Ba Gua Zhang Instructors Are:
Jonathan Molenar - NYC, NY

Instructor Certification Requirements as of 2005 are as follows:

Pa Kua Chang Instructors: Starting in 2005 the Wu Tang PCA is offering Joint Certification in Pa Kua Chang with Healing Tao USA University. Instructor Certification Training will be presented in five day (40 hour) retreats at Healing Tao USA University and weekend workshops and classes at the Wu-Tang Physical Culture Associations of New York City and Frankfurt Germany. This Ba Gua Zhang Instructor Certification contains five sections of which the first two are basic and mandatory. These two basic levels are followed by three advanced degrees which can be studied in any order or amount to be determined by the instructor trainee’s personal interest in the advanced aspects of the art of Ba Gua Zhang.

TAI CHI CHUAN INSTRUCTORS: YANG & WU:  Must know their form with applications for health and martial arts---Basics of Push Hands--To have competed in or demonstrated Tai Chi Chuan.

HSING I CHUAN INSTRUCTORS: 5 Element stances -- 5 Element Line Drills--5 Element Linking form--5 Element 2 Person Form--At least 12 Animal Line Drills & The Zhang Style 12 Shapes Set -- to have either competed in or demonstrated Hsing I Chuan.

CHI KUNG INSTRUCTORS:  Opening the Energy Gates, Spiraling Energy Body, O'Mara Horse Stance +Tao Ten Chi Kung Sets

TAOIST MEDITATION INSTRUCTORS:  Wu Wei Meditation and Taoist water Method Dissolving Meditation

TAOIST STUDIES INSTRUCTORS: All Taoist Meditation Requirements and working knowledge of The I Ching, The Tao Te Ching, The Chuang Tze

FIGHTING FOR HEALTH INSTRUCTORS: Must know all the exercises and techniques as well as how to Spar with them for each of the 5 Phases that they complete

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