2025 Registrations are Open! New Students Welcome!!

Wulong is looking forward to continuing your good physical and mental health in 2025 through our highly successful online and in person wushu, taichi and qigong training provided by Australia’s most professional taichi and wushu teacher and practitioner, Professor Lily Sun. Our popular classes are filing fast so don’t delay taking this opportunity to improve your health and wellbeing. You can find our 2025 terms and timetable here and you can register for 2025 classes by emailing info@wulongtaichi.com.au.

You can be sure that Professor Sun has an interesting and beneficial curriculum in mind for the coming year. All classes incorporate warm up and foundation training plus featured tai chi and qigong learning, and have benefits for flexibility, strength, balance, mental health and the immune system.

We continue our popular online classes for people with health risks and those who don’t want to join in person classes, and for people who live further away from our class locations.

To kick start 2025 we have an expanded schedule of nine park practice sessions in Ascot Vale, Fairfield and Caulfield South during January. All welcome – click here for more details – it’s a great opportunity to try out some tai chi and qigong if you haven’t done any before. And also includes taichi fan and qigong stick practice sessions for our passionate students.

Push Hands - Our biggest Wulong Workshop ever!!!

Wow! What a powerful and skill enhancing experience! Wulong’s biggest workshop yet was fully booked almost immediately by participants from across Melbourne, regional Victoria, and interstate - one passionate student coming from as far as Western Australia to learn from Professor Lily.

Thank you Professor Lily! for teaching workshop particpants the martial arts techniques of tai chi Push Hands or tui zhou, and the corresponding Yang 9 Duel Routine.

Two-person push hands is a thought provoking training method practiced to raise tai chi students’ understanding of facing an opponent, and the interaction between attack and defence. Push hands helps us sense our partner’s movements and intention, the transition between attack and defence.

“Push hands is very important for tai chi students to increase their understanding of the martial applications of tai chi.” says Professor Lily,

"Push hands practice will improve your tai chi foundation and practice through increasing reflex, reaction, coordination, strength, and balance. Energy flows throughout the whole body, with benefits for cardiovascular health and circulation.”

Professor Lily also introduced chai zhao into the practical application of tai chi, bridging the gap between theory and practice, and improving combat skills. Chai zhao is the process of breaking down, analyzing, and training response techniques for specific movements. It involves specific offensive and defensive techniques, methods to neutralize our opponent’s force, change the angle of their attack, and pick the right timing for a counterattack.

These experiences created the foundation skills for the Yang 9 Duel routine. The integrated movements of the duel are an enlightening uplift of the solo routine learnt in class. Feeling and responding to the direction and strength of a partner's intention brings greater alertness, concentration and mindfulness to our practice. The Yang 9 Duel brought us a new beauty and flow as we practiced.

As always, Professor Lily’s training included correct foundation and technique - the martial applications of each movement were fully demonstrated, and errors corrected in the workshop. Special thanks to Candice and Helen for demonstrations and assistance.

Professor Lily was very impressed with our dedication and enthusiasm for more Push Hands and Duel routine training. So we are busy planning another push hands workshop for early 2025. Please follow our social media and website to keep up to date with the details as they are released.

Wulong Shines at 2024 Festival

Another big day out for Wulong at the 2024 Wushu Taichi Qigong Australia Festival. Some amazing tai chi and qigong on show with solo and group performances from Wulong instructors and advanced students demonstrating the professional moves we learned from Professor Lily.

What an event! The packed Festival programme involved a large number of practitioners showcasing their favourite tai chi, qigong and wushu routines.

A special massed interactive qigong activity was led by Wulong’s own Instructor Noriko. So invigorating! Nearly all performers and guests were on their feet breathing and stretching.

Our solo and group performers provided an enthralling spectacle.

SOLO - Taichi Yang Style Fan 28

Wulomg Instructor Noriko, from our Sunday Caulfield class, thrilled guests with the Taichi Yang Style Fan 28 routine. Noriko has been a gold medallist at WTQA competitions and in Beijing China.

SOLO - Five Animals Qigong

Wulong Advanced Student Roland, from our Tuesday Yarraville class, conjured the spirits of the Five Animals - tiger, deer, bear, monkey and bird. Roland has been a gold medallist at WTQA competitions.

GROUP - Duan Wei 3 Yang 17

Our Wulong Advanced Students - Roland, Candice, Michael, Helen M, Noriko , Sara and Helen S - performed the Standardised Duan Wei Yang Style Tai Chi Level 3 routine, sometimes called Yang 17.

A special shout out to Melbourne University Wushu Kung Fu, also coached by Professor Lily, who put on an amazing wushu show including weapons.

Grateful thanks to WTQA President Sam Au, committee and organising team for the outstanding day. It was pleasing to see President Sam Au call Professor Lily forward in acknowledging the key supporters of the Festival.

Big thanks to Jenny, Bill, Norma, Sue, Shen, Kathleen, Judith, Marisa, Dorothy, Arthur, Stacy, Jesmond, Ben, Nathan, Grace, Amanda and Paul - our cheer squad and paparazzi crew. We thank you! 

12 Step Health Preservation Qigong Workshop - Daoyin Yangsheng Gong Shi Er Fa - 19 May 2024

Wulong Tai Chi Kung Fu is pleased to announce our first workshop for 2024.

Qigong Workshop – 12 Step Health Preservation Qigong

Also called the Daoyin Yangsheng Gong Shi Er Fa, this qigong is a complete set of meridian exercises combining mental concentration, breath control and body movement for life vitality. Long-term practice can enhance cardio-pulmonary function, body shape, flexibility, balance, coordination, as well as improving self-regulating capacity of the nervous system.

The 12 Step Health Preservation Qigong is designed to work on three levels. First, it can be used for health maintenance, to improve vitality and prevent disease by keeping the immune system strong. Second, it can be used directly as a treatment for chronic disease or certain acute conditions. Thirdly, it can be used as a recuperative therapy for those in a recovery phase – the movements are unique in that they can be practised either standing or sitting.

Join Professor Lily Sun to learn:

• An introduction to the 12 Step Health Preservation Qigong - Daoyin Yangsheng Gong Shi Er Fa. Created by the Chinese Health Qigong Association to promote physical health, mental relaxation, and spiritual well-being.

• Foundation skills and techniques based on the traditional images from ancient silk paintings excavated in Changsha, China.

• Simple, beautiful movements based on traditional Chinese medicine principles to improve the function of organs, and preserve health and prevent illness.

The workshop is suitable for all ages and skill levels from beginner to advanced.

Places are limited and registration is essential. Please register via our event page for a unique opportunity to learn this versatile and beneficial qigong while enjoying Professor Lily’s warm, generous and exceptional teaching skills.

Taichi Sword 42 Session 1

Under Lily’s expert instruction, we started our journey to know and love the Taichi Sword 42 routine, we stabbed, thrust, blocked, parried, and pointed the sword, while moving left and right, back, front and oblique.

We discovered the challenges of balance and posture, focus and control of the sword plus the power, being aware of the space around us, and other students.

Professor Lily was very impressed by our excitement and dedication to learning the techniques and movements of Taichi Sword, with the excellent results achieved, and our enthusiasm for a further workshop in November.

“Training with the taichi sword increases ability in all the foundations of taichi, particularly balance and posture. It develops focus and spatial awareness, strength, coordination and fitness. It strengthens the arms and wrist, and improves energy coordination throughout the whole body. And it’s fun!”

Professor Lily Sun has practiced taichi sword since eight years old, it being her speciality short weapon during her Wushu career. Professor Lily is a rare master in Australia to have won gold medals at the national level in China.  The focus of her sword workshops’ is on correct foundation and technique, the practical applications of each movement were taught, not just simply the basic movements.

Professor Lily is excited to pass on her knowledge and skills of the taichi sword to future practitioners. A second Taichi Sword workshop is planned for November 2022. You can send an email to express interest in attending to info@wulongtaichi.com.au

Congratulations to the attendees of Our Ba Fa Wu Bu Workshop

Wulong Congratulates the passionate and ambitious Tai Chi students who came on October 27 to learn Ba Fa Wu Bu. The first time the new international standard has been presented in Australia. 

Professor Lily Sun led us through the Yang, Chen and Sun style techniques of Ba Fa Wu Bu. Professor Sun’s expert tuition of the “Eight Techniques and Five Steps" means we can practice and develop the standardised routine in sync with the worldwide Tai chi movement. But most of all everyone had fun. 

Here is what one of our attendees had to say about the workshop

“Ba Fa Wu Bu is simple, beautiful and powerful! It is now my favourite routine. Thanks Prof Lily for teaching us and making the workshop fun.”

— Helen

Inaugural Australian International Martial Arts Festival

Wulong Tai Chi Kung Fu congratulates our dedicated members Lucy and Paul Keenan who won gold at the recent inaugural Australia International Martial Arts Festival held over the weekend of 1st and 2nd of December 2018. As well as a large number of Australian based competitors, the Festival attracted martial arts practitioners from China, Singapore, Hong Kong and New Zealand.

On the first day of the festival, Lucy and Paul competed in tai chi and qi gong events and won a combined tally of three gold medals and one silver medal. They each competed in Tai Chi Fan Yang Style 18 form and Ba Duan Jin Qi Gong events, achieving exceptional scores over 9 for each routine. Paul won gold for both events and Lucy gold for the Ba Duan Jin and silver in the Tai Chi Fan Yang 8 form.

On the second day Lucy and Paul returned to the Festival as guests in an exciting closing ceremony where they performed movements from the Ba Duan Jin Qi Gong for a large audience of dignitaries, competitors and spectators.

Professor Lily Sun is proud to see Lucy and Paul, as well as all the hard working Wulong Tai Chi Kung Fu students, challenge themselves and achieve personal growth and success.

Wulong Tai Chi Kung Fu wishes all the Festival competitors the best in their training, and looks forward to competing next year!

Guest Author: Helen Simmonds

WTQA Festival 2018

What a day it was! With performances from the masters, lion dancing and of course the amazing competitors.

Wulong's small team made quite the impact, walking away with several Gold medals and three Champion trophies.

• Roland Heath - 3 Gold Medals

• Lucy Keenan - Overall Qigong Female Champion

• John McCormick (not pictured) - Overall Tai Chi Male Champion

• Sher Rill Ng - Overall Tai Chi Female Champion

A special shout out to Paul Keenan and Kyle Tidd for your amazing behind the scenes work. Not only did you manage our team, but you were our personal cheer squad and paparazzi crew. We thank you!

Another Successful Tai Chi Sword Workshop

October Sword Workshop participants all completed the workshop successfully

Congratulation to all those who attended the October sword workshop.  Lily took everyone through more advanced sword foundation and then progressed with the Tai Chi Sword 32 routine. Everyone made an amazing effort.

Due to the great success of the workshop, and popular demand from the participants.  Professor Lily Sun will be running a series of review sessions for people to improve and progress in the Tai Chi 32 form. Signup below!

Professor Lily Sun has practiced sword since the age of 13, it being her speciality short weapon during her Wushu career. Lily is the only master in Australia to have won gold medals at the national level in China.  The focus of her sword workshops are on correct foundation and technique, the practical applications of each movement are taught, not just simply the basic movements.

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Professor Lily Sun will be running a series of workshops.  These are open to both beginners and advanced.  To express interest please fill out the form below.