A SINGLE MOVEMENT: Peter Yang, a Christian Taoist

Yolanda Padilla met Peter Yang in Barcelona in 2004, while she was attending the university for a postdoctoral stay. It was during the twelve o'clock mass in the Cathedral, in a small chapel near the sacristy, where he officiated every day for more than sixty years. The first thing that caught his attention, says Yolanda, was his upright posture, which he would keep until his return home on March 7, 2014. For Peter Yang and for the taichistas of the Cariñito Familiar family, death does not exist, it is a dream, “don't be a mentalist,” he would say. From that day on, Yolanda was in contact with Peter, either in Spain or in Mexico, during Tai Chi retreats or from the Spirit.

Yolanda began to attend daily mass while in Barcelona, and in the afternoons she attended the Rincón del Silencio, a Christian Zen Tai Chi school where Tai Chi and the gatherings with Peter were transmitted. Tai Chi is not taught, Peter said, it is transmitted and done for free because it has been received for free. Free of charge was one of the most valuable teachings that Yolanda and all taichists have received and we receive it every time we breathe, that fresh air enters through the nose and exits through the same with warmth. Peter would receive this method of natural breathing from a Chinese elder one day in China and he would transmit it to the Spanish taichists and, through Yolanda, to the Mexicans.