Xuan Wu

Xuan Wu (Elena Vitkova)

Practical experience — since 1994

Master of the Taoist subdivision at the INBI World Center in the projects “The Way Women”, “Laboratory of Development”, and “The Art of Bedchambers”.

Autobiography

„ If someone had told me at the age of 23 that I would spend the next half of my life doing Taoist practices, I would have been surprised. But life is good because it is unpredictable: having stumbled upon Oleg Cherne’s seminar by chance in 1995, I found myself in a completely different coordinate system, finding deep and, most importantly, systemic knowledge about humans and their capabilities. Although much of the lecture was unfamiliar and incomprehensible, there was definitely some inner truth in it, which gave me the feeling that I had always known this but had simply forgotten it. The practical part of the seminar gave me a tangible sense of the possibility of growth.

From that moment on, regular Taoist yoga classes, Taiji Quan, Baguazhang, seminars and gatherings, research trips to Southeast Asia and Latin America became an important, if not a primary, part of my life.

Since 2000 I started teaching classes and seminars on Taoist yoga. Teaching and participating in the production of Taoist yoga instructional films has been an opportunity for me to deepen into the practice, to look at it from a different angle, and to find answers to questions that maybe I would have never asked myself.

It’s no secret that nowadays people tend to come to classes after they have already encountered health problems. In order to better understand the mechanisms of health recovery, in 2005 I graduated from the Russian National Institute of Health (Faculty of Traditional and Eastern Healing Methods), where I studied the physiology of yoga and qigong.

Today, however, it is not enough to simply follow one tradition or another. We are all born different, and in order to understand and find the most appropriate practices for each particular case, we need to understand the method and principles of development.”

The training with Oleg Cherne gives Elena an understanding of the method of development, which is based on thе knowledge of the development of the human energy structure: “By improving the energy structure, we expand the boundaries of possibilities, where body and mind evolve into an increasingly subtle, complex and sensitized instrument of perception. Our conscious participation in life is only as strong as our ability to perceive and experience, to engage our minds in all the processes in which we are involved. Achieving higher states and experiencing life directly depends on the parameters of the body and mind – that’s how development works. Which, if you look closely, is the ultimate experience.“