TERRENCE PANG-YEN DUNN is an expert instructor of Chinese martial, yogic, and healing arts with more than 36 years of training based in Los Angeles, CA. Since 1990, he has popularized Tai Chi Chuan and Qigong practice throughout America and Europe through his highly acclaimed Tai Chi for Health and Chi Kung For Health dvd programs.Terry has also pioneered the practice of Tai Chi and Qigong in modern medicine and professional sports. Educated at Yale College and the Harvard Business School, Terry is a gifted teacher, author and filmmaker who expresses an ecumenical vision in preserving the classical knowledge of China's martial, yogic, healing, and spiritual traditions.
Terry Dunn's 36 years of experience in Chinese holistic health practices includes more than 25 years in T'ai Ch'i Ch'uan, Qigong and Chinese methods of meditation, and more than 30 continuous years in three styles of Chinese boxing (kung-fu). He has studied under some of the most renowned Chinese martial art masters of the twentieth century: Master Share K. Lew of the Tao Tan Pai (Taoist Elixir Method) Kung Fu, Master Abraham Liu in Yang style T'ai Chi Ch'uan, Master Chan Ching-Kai in Yang T'ai Chi Ch'uan and Six Harmonies & Eight Methods, Master York Why Loo in Six Harmonies & Eight Methods Boxing, and Grandmaster Ark Yue Wong of the Southern Sil Lum Five Animal Style. Certified in 1983, Dunn is an instructor in the Sil Lum Five Animals, Taoist Elixir Method, and "Eight Sections Combined" kung fu systems.
Terry has taught Tai Chi and Chi Kung courses at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles for many years, and co-wrote the first medical protocol in American medicine applying therapeutic Tai Chi and Qigong techniques to accelerate patients' recovery from surgery and other treatments. In 2000 and 2001, Terry trained the World Champion Los Angeles Lakers in Tai Chi and Kung Fu as a regular warm-up method to their training regimen. Terry is the creator of the all-time best-selling Tai Chi for Health DVD series and the six-part Chi Kung For Health series teaching the remarkable Flying Phoenix Celestial Healing Qigong.
In the area of public safety, Mr. Dunn produced in 1995 the life-saving Universal System of Arrest & Control for Law Enforcement training videos with Ron Chapel, still used by police agencies worldwide.