A Brief History
To further realize Master Zhou’s mission to promote cross-cultural East and West understanding, Master Zhou inaugurated his first conference in August 2021. He had planned a forum at his new home in Daoist Gate Center in Francestown, NH. But like everything else during the outbreak of Covid 19, everything stopped. It was a revelatory moment when an opportunity presented itself as remote meetups swept global meeting landscapes. It was an experiment worth taking. What and how else did we manage to bring people together from different places and time zones across continents to partake in our first Daoist forum? It was clear from the beginning that we would do this yearly.
 | First Daoist Gate Conference – August 2021 PROGRAM and EVENT DETAILS (download as a PDF) VIEW the Talks on YouTube Sander Vink – Rituals of Morning and Evening Chanting in Daoist Temples, view here. Louis Komjathy – Daoist Cultivation According to the Nine Practices, view here. Larson Di Fiori – Daoist Meditation, view here. Master Zhou Xuanyun – The Wandering Life of a Daoist, view here. |
 | Second Daoist Gate Conference – August 2022 PROGRAM and EVENT DETAILS (download as a PDF) VIEW the Talks on YouTube Lindsey Wei – Zhen Wu: Perfected Warrior of the Northern Heavens, view here. Josh Paynter – The Importance of Ethics in Modern Society, view here. Deng Ming Dao – Finding Your Dao, view here. Master Zhou Xuanyun – Using the Dao to Understand the Pandemic, view here. |
 | Third Daoist Gate Conference – August 2023 PROGRAM and EVENT DETAILS (Download the PDF file here) VIEW the Talks on YouTube Andy Fakis – How Qigong Helps Manage My Chronic Autoimmune Flare-Ups – A Personal Story, view here. Larson Di Fiori – Situating Health Cultivation Practices, view here. Janet Liu – Exploring the Benefits of Yoga Therapy and Its Connections to Qigong, view here. Paul Fraser – Using Qigong to Overcome Cancer and Other Serious Diseases, view here. Johan Hausen – The Foundation of Wudang Qigong Healing, view here. Greg Casey – Shen & Ling: Daoist Ideas on the Spirits and Souls of Chinese Medicine, view here. Robert Hoffman – Numinous Mushrooms in the Daoist Texts, view here. David Wei – Five Hands of Classical Chinese Acupressure, view here. |
 | Fourth Daoist Conference – October 2024 VIEW the Talks on YouTube Mary Burke-Pitts: The Nature of Trees, view here. Rory Hiltbrand: Numerology in Everyday Life, view here. Ross Rosen: Intersections of Chinese and Daoist Medicine: A Perspective on Resonance, view here. Yu Hua Meng: From Dragon to Snake: Visions of Hybridity and the Strange, view here. Josh Miller: How Taijiquan Can Bring Well-being in Modern Life, view here.Larson DiFiori: Meditation and Qigong Contemplative Studies with College, view here. Paul K. Alexander: Integrating Chinese Medicine with Modern Fertility Practices, view here. Sam Wuest: Meridians and Points in Motion, view here. Master Zhou Xuan Yun: Color, Space, Feng Shui and Health, view here. |
The event could not have occurred without the generosity of several individuals and organizations who supported our work, including the students of the Daoist Gate Center and the Daoist Conference panelists who donated their time and expertise and who believed in our mission.