Dr Andrew Jan

Andrew Jan is a senior instructor for the Universal Tao System. He first became an instructor in 1992 and a senior since the year 2000. He has been studying martial arts since the age of six and has been studying the internal arts of Wu Shu for 30 years. His teachers include Chen Chu-Fei, John Yuen (Blackburn Tai Chi Academy), Liu De-Ming, Huo Dong-Li in Beijing (Senior judge  Beijing Wu Shu Federation), Zhu Tian-Cai (One of the contemporary Tigers of Chen Jia Guo), Liu Hong-Ci, Lama Dondrup Dorje and of course Master Mantak Chia.

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Andrew Jan has won multiple medals in push hand competitions in Victoria; he won a full contact all-styles lightweight division in 1984, and in 2000, became the National Tai Chi and Wu Shu champion in the over 40 section. He won first place in Wu style, Yang style and the weapons divisions.

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Professor Andrew Jan is an Adjunct Professor with the School of Medicine, University of Notre Dame Fremantle, an Emergency Medicine Specialist and a Medical Acupuncturist. He has a Bachelor's degree in the Arts (major in performance dramaturgy and English literature) and a Master's in Philosophy with his thesis based on Taoist mysticism.  He has co-authored four books with Master Chia: Tai Chi Fa Jin (Yang Discharge Form), Wu Style Tai Chi, Greater and Greatest Kan and Li. He has published several papers on the use of acupuncture on several topics, including symptom control in prostate cancer and pain management in the emergency department.

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Professor Andrew Jan is involved in acupuncture and emergency medicine research. He has completed a PhD on the topic of acupuncture as an analgesic for pain management in the acute setting. The thesis is freely available: https://researchonline.nd.edu.au/theses/318

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Andrew Jan was born in Australia to a Chinese father and an English mother. He has always found himself exploring and synthesizing both Eastern and Western traditions. This applies to both healing as well as martial arts. He is separated with one daughter.

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He is a Senior Instructor for Healing Tao International (Grandmaster Mantak Chia) and Director of the Internal Martial Arts division.

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Mission - inspired by William Blake

Andrew has always felt intimately connected to the poetry and writings of William Blake. There exists a certain resonance with this section of  Jerusalem (Plate 5) and his past and intended work.

 

 

Trembling I sit day and night - my friends are astonished at me

Yet they forgive my wandering, I rest not from my great task

To open the eternal worlds, to open the immortal eyes

Of man inwards into the worlds of thought: into eternity

Ever-expanding in the bosom of God, the human imagination

O saviour pour upon me thy Spirit of meekness and love:

Annihilate the selfhood in me, be thou all my life!

Guide thou my hand which trembles exceedingly upon the rock of ages

Trembling I sit day and night - my friends are astonished at me

Yet they forgive my wandering, I rest not from my great task

To open the eternal worlds, to open the immortal eyes

Of man inwards into the worlds of thought: into eternity

Ever-expanding in the bosom of God, the human imagination

O saviour pour upon me thy Spirit of meekness and love:

Annihilate the selfhood in me, be thou all my life!

Guide thou my hand which trembles exceedingly upon the rock of ages