White Magnolia Tai Chi is a member of the Plum Blossom International Federation of Choy Li Fut/Tai Chi, headed by Grandmaster Doc-Fai Wong of San Francisco. The Plum Blossom International Federation has over one hundred schools world-wide. Branch schools are located throughout the U.S., Canada, Central and South America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, the Philippines, and Tahiti.

Grandmaster Wong was a disciple of Tai Chi Master Hu Yuen-Chou, a closed-door (close student taught privately) student of the renowned Tai Chi Master Yang Cheng-Fu, grandson of Yang Lu-Chan, the founder of Yang family style Tai Chi.

Grandmaster Wong studied Chi Kung under Professor Peng-Si Yu (1902-1983), a Heidelberg-trained medical doctor and renowned medical Chi Kung practitioner who spent his last years here in the Bay Area teaching and participating in medical research at Stanford University. After Professor Yu’s death, Grandmaster Wong continued his Chi Kung training under Professor Yu’s wife and Master assistant, Min-Ou Yang.

Dr. Miriam Marsolais, founder of the White Magnolia Tai Chi School, trained with three of Grandmaster Wong’s senior disciples: Sifu David Dong, Sifu Yadollah Moghaddam and Sifu Munzer Dajani.

Current head instructor John Luna-Sparks began his Tai Chi training with Dr. Marsolais in 2005, who transferred guardianship of the school to John in 2020. He then merged the school with his Chinese medicine clinic to form the healing practice White Magnolia Acupuncture and Tai Chi. He continues as a student of Dr. Marsolais and also Sifu Yadollah Moghaddam.

Please click here for a video of Grandmaster Doc-Fai Wong demonstrating Tai Chi push hands.