Andrew Jan
Taoist Teacher
About
Andrew Jan
MBBS FAMAC BA FACEM MPhil PhD
Andrew Jan is the Global Branch Leader for Internal Martial Arts and a Senior Instructor for Internal Alchemy within the Universal Healing Tao system, founded by Grandmaster Mantak Chia.
Beginning martial arts at age six, he has devoted over 35 years to the internal arts of Wu Shu, Tai Chi, and Taoist alchemy.
He trained intensively in China between 1997 and 2000:
- 1997: Training with Master Liu Hong-Ci in Beijing for one year
- 1998–2000: Advanced internal martial arts study with Master Huo Dong-Li, Senior Judge of the Beijing Wu Shu Federation
His other teachers include Chen Chu-Fei, John Yuen, Liu De-Ming, Zhu Tian-Cai (one of the four Tigers of Chen Jia Gou), Lama Dondrup Dorje, and Grandmaster Mantak Chia.
Andrew has won multiple martial arts titles, including:
- 1984: Full-contact All-Styles Champion, Lightweight Division, Victoria
- 2000: Australian National Tai Chi and Wu Shu Champion (Over 40)—1st place in Wu Style, Yang Style, and Weapons divisions
He has co-authored several books with Mantak Chia:
- Tai Chi Fa Jin – Advanced Yang Style
- Tai Chi 3: Wu Style – Internalizing Chi
- The Practice of Greater Kan and Li
- Greatest Kan and Li
He is also author of:
Jan, Andrew. The Sexual Basis of Mystical Vision: An Analysis of William Blake versus Mantak Chia in How They Sublimate Sexual Feelings to Achieve Mystical Consciousness. Saarbrücken: Lambert Academic Publishing, 2010 from his Master’s thesis (2000): https://researchonline.nd.edu.au/theses/27/ — a comparative study of Taoist and Christian mysticism
As a teacher, Andrew integrates body training, internal energy cultivation, Taoist alchemy, and spiritual embodiment, guiding students toward transformative, heart-centered practices aligned with the Tao. He is currently writing two books: Ecstatic Spirit Flight – Entering the Congress of Heaven and Earth & The Grand Completion into the Nothingness - The Reunion of Heaven and Humanity. ​​​
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Mission - inspired by William Blake
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Andrew has always felt intimately connected to the poetry and writings of William Blake. There exists a certain resonance with this section of Jerusalem (William Blake, “Jerusalem, Plate 5,” from Jerusalem The Emanation of the Giant Albion, c.1804–1820. Public Domain. Image courtesy of The William Blake Archive.) and his past and intended work.
Trembling I sit day and night - my friends are astonished at me
Yet they forgive my wandering, I rest not from my great task
To open the eternal worlds, to open the immortal eyes
Of man inwards into the worlds of thought: into eternity
Ever-expanding in the bosom of God, the human imagination
O saviour pour upon me thy Spirit of meekness and love:
Annihilate the selfhood in me, be thou all my life!
Guide thou my hand which trembles exceedingly upon the rock of ages
Trembling I sit day and night - my friends are astonished at me
Yet they forgive my wandering, I rest not from my great task
To open the eternal worlds, to open the immortal eyes
Of man inwards into the worlds of thought: into eternity
Ever-expanding in the bosom of God, the human imagination
O saviour pour upon me thy Spirit of meekness and love:
Annihilate the selfhood in me, be thou all my life!
Guide thou my hand which trembles exceedingly upon the rock of ages
