Born in Shaanxi Province in China in the mid 1950’s, Dr. and Master Zhi Gang Sha became deeply committed to serve the suffering at a very young age. He often recalls a day when he saw a woman sitting alongside a road unable to walk. He approached her and asked what could be troubling her. The woman looked at him and wearily said she had difficulty breathing. As a youngster, he wanted so much to be able to help her. Through this encounter and many more, Master Sha’s heart of pure service and compassion put him onto the path of becoming an extraordinary healer.

Master Sha grew up in a prominent family. His father was the top executive of a coal mine with ten thousand employees. His father’s leadership style was very hands on and he stood with his workers. Whenever there was a cave-in or other crisis, his father would be the first to risk his own life to rescue those in peril, despite the efforts of other employees trying to hold him back. This sense of responsibility and care for others, so apparent in Master Sha himself, comes from his earliest role model, his father.

At the age of six, Master Sha convinced his parents and a grandmaster of tai qi to enroll him as a student. Despite his tender age, he underwent strict training and practice for the next 10 years. For Master Sha, the decision to learn tai qi was a crucial first step in his mental development. He learned how to push himself beyond pain and gain great control of his body.

In the years that followed, Master Sha became a practitioner of tai qi and qigong. He further mastered other ancient arts including kung fu, feng shui, and I Ching. Master Sha also excelled in school and was a top student in every subject. He attained leadership positions and took his responsibilities seriously. He devoted his time to after-school tutoring, and helped his classmates who struggled with schoolwork.

In 1983, Master Sha completed his medical degree in Western medicine at Xi’an Jiaotong University. Three years later, he was certified as an acupuncturist and herbalist by the World Health Organization’s Institute of International Acupuncture and Moxibustion in Beijing, where he also taught acupuncture, tai qi, and qigong to foreign physicians.

In the years that followed, Master Sha travelled to the Philippines for study and for work. He treated the highest-ranking military officials as well as government officials, and became the personal physician to many of the country’s affluent.

In 1988 while working on a master’s degree in hospital administration in the Philippines, Master Sha received a book titled Dong Yi Gong from his father. Dong means using. Yi means mind. Gong means practice. Dong Yi Gong is one type of Qi Gong in China. Qi Gong is an ancient energy practice to boost energy, stamina, vitality, and immunity. It is also to rejuvenate the body, to prolong life, and to heal sickness. The author of the book, Dr. and Master Zhi Chen Guo, is the founder of Zhi Neng Medicine and Body Space Medicine.

Master Sha developed a strong and steadfast relationship with Master Guo, and soon became his disciple and adopted son. Through his studies and extensive training, Master Sha gained profound wisdom and achievement through the integration of Taoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism with modern medicine. He eventually settled in Canada, and established himself as a very successful doctor of traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture. He has since combined the essence of Western medicine with traditional Chinese medicine. In 2017 he co-authored Tao Science, with string theorist and quantum physicist, Dr. Rulin Xiu (Ph.D. 1994, University of California at Berkley). This groundbreaking book takes an integrative approach to unifying science and spirituality.

Master Sha is also the founder of Tao Academy™ and the Love Peace Harmony Foundation, which is dedicated to helping everyone worldwide have happier and healthier lives. In 2002 he was named Qigong Master of the Year at the Fifth World Congress on Qigong. In 2006 he was honored with the prestigious Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Commission Award for his humanitarian efforts. In 2013 Master Sha became the sole Lineage Holder of Yi Bi Zi Calligraphy from Professor Li Qui Yun, student of Tai Shi (supreme teacher), teacher of the Qing dynasty’s last emperor and royal family. In 2016 Master Sha received esteemed appointments as National Chinese Calligrapher Master and Honorable Researcher Professor, the highest titles a calligrapher can receive by the State Ethnic Academy of Painting in China. From 2014 to the present, Master Sha has received many awards and recognition from state governments throughout the United States.

Master Sha’s stellar accomplishments as a soul healer have been well-documented and chronicled in best-selling books and in numerous television and multimedia interviews. His fame and reputation as an extraordinary healer are worldwide. However, beyond physical world achievements, it is the heart of compassion and service that attracts people from all walks of life to him and to his work. Unlike many notable masters, Master Sha does not keep sacred wisdom and healing techniques to himself. He liberally shares everything with his devoted students. He constantly empowers his students with more and more wisdom and healing techniques, so they too can create miracles in life. Many students follow closely in his footsteps. Some have developed stellar reputations in their own right.

Master Sha has taught all of his students a most powerful Chinese phrase:

Yin Shui Si Yuan

Yin means drink. Shui means water. Si means think. Yuan means source or origin. The phrase means when you drink water, think of the source.

Master Sha has passed on this knowledge with quiet passion. He has said on numerous occasions, “The more successful I become, the more I remember the teachings of my spiritual father, Master Guo, his teachers, and all of the teachings I received from the Divine, the Source, and other masters. They are the source of my wisdom and the power of my service. How can I thank them enough? I am the humble servant to them and humanity. I thank each of them from the bottom of my heart and soul.”

Master Sha teaches that the purpose in life is to serve. He has trained tens of thousands of powerful healers worldwide. Tao Hands Practitioner is the first level training program that offers high frequency blessings that can transform negative information to restore harmony and balance to health, emotions, relationships, finances, career, intelligence, and more. Many have benefitted from learning how to apply powerful healing techniques for their personal well-being, as well as helping family, friends, pets, businesses, organizations, and more.

Never before has it been as easy to access programs that promote healing, wellbeing, longevity, and flourishing in life. Lao Zi, author of the classic Tao Te Ching, said one could sit at home to know the secrets of the universe. Throughout the world, people are able to participate in webinars, teleconferences, Facebook Live programs, and can now access Master Sha’s wisdom and practices through his Experience Life Transformation podcasts with new programs weekly.

Throughout the great achievements in his life, the notable awards and recognitions, it is Master Sha’s magnanimous and generous spirit that shines ever so brightly. He sincerely believes everyone deserves a better quality of life, and he has demonstrated time and time again that he will jump in to help anyone in need, just as he witnessed his father had done while growing up. To his tens of thousands of students worldwide, Dr. and Master Zhi Gang Sha is like a father figure, and is by far the heroes’ hero.

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