In this six-day Daoyin and Qigong retreat, the participants will learn several qigong routines, i, including an in-depth study of Emei Shenzhangong (Mt Emei Medical Daoyin), Six Healing Sounds, The Eight Brocades, The Five Animal Frolics, as well as various forms of ancient and medieval therapeutic exercises known as daoyin based on the 2nd century BCE text entitled Yinshu (Book of Pulling), and the 7th-century state-sponsored medical text entitled Zhubing yuanhou lun (Treatise on the Origins and Symptoms of Medical Disorders). This is a special retreat where little-known ancient and medieval therapeutic exercises will be taught alongside contemporary Qigong practices. The daily intensive qigong sessions will be led by Feixia Yu, a renowned Qigong teacher in the UK. There will be lectures on the history of therapeutic exercise in ancient and medieval China by Professor Vivienne Lo and Dr Dolly Yang; and in the evenings we will show martial arts films. Feixia Yu is a multi award-winning practitioner and teacher of many styles of Taiji and Qigong and a senior instructor at the British Health Qigong Association. In September last year she won first prize in th Ba Duan Jin section of the European Health Qigong Games. She originally qualified as an Exercise and Recuperation Instructor at Beijing Sport University and now runs weekly Taiji and Qigong classes on-line and in person with open lectures and workshops on the Chinese health enhancement tradition. She regularly features in local media including BBC Radio Lancashire and the Lancashire Evening Posts on various aspects of Chinese culture. She also designs and delivers corporate wellbeing events. Her area of research interests is in Qigong as an exercise intervention tool for a range of conditions including Long Covid, hypertension, Parkinson’s, and spine misalignment. Vivienne Lo is Professor in the Department of History at UCL. For more than twenty years she has been teaching the Ancient and Medieval history of China and specialist modules in the History of Asian Medicine and Classical Chinese Medicine at BSc and MA. Vivienne's core research concerns the social and cultural origins of acupuncture, therapeutic exercise, and food and medicine. She translates and analyses manuscript material from Early and Medieval China, and publishes on the transmission of scientific knowledge along the so-called Silk Roads. She has a long-term interest in visual cultures of medicine and healthcare. Current projects include a history of nutrition in China.