 Dr. David Clippinger is a practioner and scholar of T'ai Chi and Chi Kung. He has studied with a number of renowned T'ai Chi masters including Grandmaster Daniel Lee, Grandmaster William C. C. Chen, Master Helen Wu, Grandmaster Dr. Yang, and others, and he has published articles on T'ai Chi, Buddhism, and Taoism in various journals and books. He 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 National Ovarian Cancer Symposium at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 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.
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 Ksanti Sangha in Pittsburgh, which meets every Wednesday evening at 7:00 P.M. at the Unitarian Universalist Church of the South Hills. Dr. Clippinger is featured in the article "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 focus upon 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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