Speaker(s): This retreat is led by Feixia Yu, Professor Vivienne Lo, and Dr Dolly Yang. Feixia Yu is an award-winning practitioner and teacher of many styles of Taiji and Qigong and a senior instructor at the British Health Qigong Association. 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. Dolly Yang is a researcher in the History of Chinese medicine. Her main research explores the social and cultural aspects of bodily practices in pre-modern China. She received her PhD in 2018 from University College London, UK for her investigation into the institutionalisation of therapeutic exercise in Sui China (581–618 CE). She was a postdoctoral research associate at the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, between 2020 and 2021. Her current projects include writing a book on therapeutic exercises from the 7th-century Chinese medical text Zhubing yuanhou lun. The book will be published later this year by Purple Cloud Institute with illustrations by Jessica Chiang.

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