Francestown NH · Massachusetts · online
Wudang training in the United States: Tai Chi, Qigong, Xingyi and Bagua
Xuan Yun Zhou is a Wudang Daoist priest who trained on Wudang Mountain and has taught in the United States since 2009. This page gathers where he teaches, only as the two sister sites state it.
Teaching here since 2009
Both sites describe him as a Wudang Daoist priest. He trained on Wudang Mountain, and daoistgate.com says he began teaching in China in 1997 and has taught in the United States since 2009.
According to his biography on daoistgate.com, he took part in a 2013 donation of photographs, video and publications about Wudang Mountain to the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., and has lectured at Brown University, Boston University, Boston College, Endicott College and at organizations such as Google. These statements appear on that page alone; we have not verified them independently.
Sources: daoistgate.com
Grey clapboard buildings and a barn on a green hill, a great tree, an overcast sky. This is the Daoist Gate Center, Xuan Ju, in Francestown, New Hampshire, at the foot of Crotched Mountain — founded in 2018 under his guidance, with room for twelve to stay and a hall for twenty to train. Humble, and made for quiet work.
Source: daoistgatecenter.org · rights pending
The training grounds where Master Zhou teaches in person in the United States: Daoist Gate Center, the non-profit center he founded in Francestown, New Hampshire.
The grey building and the Daoist Gate Tea House, across the gravel yard on a clear autumn morning.
Photo: Tatiana Beltran
Oak and white pine beside the gravel drive, with a ring of boulders at the bend.
Photo: Tatiana Beltran
Daoist Gate Center, Francestown, New Hampshire
The center was founded in 2018 as a 501(c)(3) non-profit, guided by Master Zhou. It stands at 132 2nd NH Turnpike N., Francestown, NH 03043, at the foot of Crotched Mountain, with a training hall for twenty people and room for up to twelve to stay.
Sources: daoistgatecenter.org
A training hall with a wooden ceiling and a bare black floor, waiting. The center’s hall holds twenty practitioners at a time, and each spring and autumn it fills with the slow footwork of teacher training. Today it is only space, and the sound of nothing.
Source: daoistgatecenter.org · rights pending
Classes the sites list
These regular classes are listed by Daoist Gate Center and daoistgate.com, and each is taught by a certified teacher, not by Master Zhou himself. Times may change; please check the source page.
- Beverly, Massachusetts: Monday and Thursday, at Temple B’nai Abraham. Taught by Rosie Segil, Brenda Gera and Robert Chavez.
- Boston Common, Boston: free Sunday Tai Chi (Wudang 28 form). Taught by Brenda Gera.
- Francestown, New Hampshire: Tai Chi, Tuesday and Thursday. Taught by Joshua Miller.
Master Zhou’s own teaching in the U.S. is at Daoist Gate Center in Francestown, in workshops he travels to give, and online.
Sources: daoistgate.com/current-classes · daoistgatecenter.org
A quiet room: wood floor, window light, no one in it. The center says its school is open to all, whatever their age, background, ethnicity or belief. Stillness asks for very little — a floor, a window, and time.
Source: daoistgatecenter.org · rights pending
Workshops around the country
The teacher-certification page says he gives workshops “in places around the country, such as in California, Delaware, or abroad in Poland and Hungary.” No dates are published.
The Daoist Gate directory of certified teachers lists teachers in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, New York, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Florida and Wisconsin.
Sources: daoistgate.com
Online
He also teaches by Zoom, including a 2026 online Xingyi and Bagua immersion and the Sixth Daoist Gate Conference (November 7–8, 2026).
TBD — pending Master Zhou’s confirmation. Other U.S. locations: none further are stated on the two sites.