Xiny Meditation is a unification of select elements of two Internal Chinese Martial Arts: Liuhebafa and Yiquan. Although history makes mention of Liuhebafa and Yiquan practitioners crossing over and learning both arts, none prior to Grandmaster David Chan of Hong Kong, merged the fundamental aspects of both martial arts into one unified system with a comprehensive curriculum. Grandmaster David Cha
n thereafter named this unified system Xinyi Meditation, a name that took over 22 years of โmeditationโ (deep thought and careful consideration) to be realized. Xinyi Meditation employs the notion of โxinyiโ (intention) as the guiding principle of both Liuhebafa and Hunyuan Zhanzhuang, to develop a martial arts practitioner into a well balanced fighter having both superior movement and internal power. He has perfected his Xinyi Meditation system in order to be learned faster and easier than the traditional separate study of Liuhebafa and Yiquan. Grandmaster David Chan learned from the lineages of Great Grandmaster Wu Yi Hui via Grandmaster Chan Yik Yan, and Great Grandmaster Wang Xiang Zhai via Grandmaster You Peng Xi, for about 18 years. He started teaching Xinyi Liuhebafa and Xinyi Zhanzhuang around the year 1976, in the Philippines. Over the course of 35 years of teaching Xinyi Meditation, Grandmaster David Chan has taught hundreds of students from all over the world. Despite this, he acknowledges only four disciples, to whom he has given permission to teach, since they are the only ones who have fully completed the entire Xinyi Meditation system. These disciples are: JR Rodriguez IV, Tristan Abara, Dylan Halili, and Emerson Champ, all from the Philippines.
