teacher trainingDuncan Wong Bio
Duncan Wong, born from an artistic family in San Francisco, California, began his yogic path as a teenager, seeking solace from his combative youth. His yogic roots are founded in the Ashtanga Vinyasa lineage, which lead him to New York City where he studied under sri Sharon gannon and sri david life, of the jivamukti yoga center, and Sri Eddie Stern, of the Patanjali Yoga Shala. His extensive time in Mysore, India, with ashtanga vinyasa grand master Sri K. P. Jois, led to his authorization to teach his system.
Certified in the Jivamukti Yoga method, after extensive training and international touring with co-creators and spiritual parents, Sharon Gannon and David Life, who he attributes his asana-goddess connection to the sacred feminine, and the philosophic base of his work, which also draws deeply from the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Kashmir shavaism and other tantric Buddhist doctrines.
Throughout his twenties, he experienced intensive training in competitive combat, under his life-long sword mentor and primary life teacher, Kwahn Jang Nym, S.J. Su, of the Korean Kuk Sool Won? martial arts family line, where he received his black belt teaching degrees and main Buddhist influence.
Duncan's dual edged path as a yogic warrior found a form of healing and higher ground through his exploration of Thai massage therapy and deep tissue myo-facial body work.
Yogic Arts was born from the synthesis of this trinity of disciplines, with a shared origin that extends back to prehistory.
Combining intuitive touch, alignment principles and bio-energy dynamics with rhythmic musical compositions, the practice is refined by the Thai vinyasa full contact assists that are present throughout this body of work.
Duncans experience of kundalini shakti-pat, or awakening of source energy from his realized Siddha Yoga master, Sri Gurumayi Chidvilasananda, is where he both derives and attributes his flow of healing energy.
His magnetic attraction to the celebrated leaders of global popular and spiritual culture, reflect his natural style of excellence and ability to manifest greatness, while inspiring this quality in others.
He welcomes all healer-warriors with basic athletic ability, an open heart and a light spirit, who share the desire to create tribe through sacred space.
Duncan Wong has the combined practice and teaching experience of 30+ years, and is the creator of the internationally recognized Yogic Arts system.
he is the director of Namaste Yoga Shala, a family run 5-story landmark yoga and pilates garden studio adjacent to an ancient Tibetan temple in Shanghai, which serves as his Intra-Asian Yogic Arts headquarters.
Lotus8+studio is the Yogic Arts Nippon foundation, which also forms YA3|Yogic Arts Asian Alliance, his teacher + studio association in Japan.