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Welcome to Vital Dao, an online resource to help introduce Daoist (Taoist) philosophy into your daily life.

Discover healthy living with diet, qigong, and meditation, read and discuss Daoist ideas, or go beyond adding a few simple things to make your life a little sweeter, or go all out by totally going All Dao and explore internal martial arts like Xin Yi and neigong to develop internal power and complete transformation.

Follow this site to see blog posts on all things in life where Dao can be applied and improve your health, mental and emotional wellness—or even learn how to meditate while watching TV… Seriously! And if you want to learn more, check out our current services and our future products.

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Xin Yi Internal Power in Martial Arts Studies

Yes, you can learn martial arts and power virtually. But like everything in life, it requires hard work. If you want to be able to have good health and confidence without needing to go to the gym, buying a gi or boxing gloves and shin pads, you will learn power, skills, forms, and techniques over a prolonged period and the importance of the internal aspect of martial living and why it is an art, not just a mere combat style.

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Qigong Techniques

A variety of practices that range from looking like Tai Chi to completely mental focus, if you want something that will give you greatly improved health without being too stressful on the body and requiring no equipment at all, just your own body and breathing, look no further. No need for contortion and flexibility like in yoga—move with your own natural abilities and gradually open everything up.

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Daoist Meditations and Guidance (and Comparative Meditation Studies)

For people who want a tried and true practice (and the guidance that goes with it), we give you some of the simplest practices for seated and standing meditations, and go further into depth with comparison to some other styles of meditation to help you appreciate the simplicity of Daoist arts. Practice while being observed, practice at home and come check in from time to time to see how your progress is going and get guidance and feedback.

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Foundational Fitness

Natural training that uses no equipment, an amalgamation of European Strongman training and some Taoist exercises, which are excellent complements to internal training or a good practice in of itself, it is recommended for younger aspirants to try this out to see if they just want health and fitness or if they really want to explore the internal world.

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