 Dr. David Clippinger is a practitioner and scholar of T'ai Chi and Chi Kung, who has studied with many renowned T'ai Chi masters including Professor Li De-Yin, Madame Fang Mi-Shou, Grandmaster William C. C. Chen, Master Helen Wu, Grandmaster Dr. Yang, Grandmaster Daniel Lee, and others. He has published articles on T'ai Chi, Buddhism, and Taoism in various journals and books and is currently writing The Bliss of Now: Integrating Living, Working, and Being , which includes discussions of meditation and Chi Kung exercises and draws upon his experience as an Ordained Zen Buddhist Monk and the resident Instructor of Mountain Wind Zen Meditation in Pittsburgh .
In addition to running Still Mountain , Dr. Clippinger has lectured upon T'ai Chi and Chi Kung at Allegheny General Hospital, was a keynote presenter for the 2005 National Ovarian Cancer Symposium and has conducted therapeutic T'ai Chi and Chi Kung workshops at Magee's Womens Hospital, Gilda's Club of Western PA, the Cancer Caring Center, the Dean Ornish Program at Allegheny General, the National Hemophilia Foundation's Family Weekend, Shepherd Wellness Community Center, and the Healing Weekend Retreat for Persons for HIV/AIDS. He is currently teaching an ongoing corporate wellness program at the Highmark Corporate Office in Downtown Pittsburgh.
Complimenting his background in traditional Chinese martial arts, Dr. Clippinger is a Ch'an Buddhist Monk with the Dharma name of Venerable Shih Tao-Fa (“The Way of the Dharma”), and is the leader of the Mountain Wind Zen Meditation in Pittsburgh, which meets every Wednesday evening at 7:00 P.M. at Temple Emanuel, 1240 Bower Hill Road, in Mt. Lebanon. Dr. Clippinger has been featured in articles in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh Tribune Review, Point of Light, and in "Now and Zen," which was published in Mt. Lebanon Magazine, March, 2005. In this respect, Dr. Clippinger recognizes that T'ai Chi training, in its purest form, must include general health, martial skills, and spiritual development, and his background as a Buddhist Monk bears directly upon how he teaches T'ai Chi Chuan. |
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