Instructor

Feixia Yu

Honorary Principal Lecturer at UCLan

Senior Yoga, Taichi Qigong Instructor

Contact:

• fyu8@Lancashire.ac.uk

• yutaichi4you@gmail.com

Current Appointments:

• Taichi Qigong Instructor

  Manchester Museum (since 2023)

• Taichi, Qigong, Stretch and Dynamics Meditation Instructor

  Total Fitness (since 2025)

Past Appointments:

• University of Central Lancashire

  Director of UCLan Confucius Institute (2008-2024)

  Principal Lecturer (1995-2024)

Selected Awards:

• Preston Mayor’s Covid Hero Award (2021)

• First Prize in Baduanjin, 6th European Health Qigong Tournament (Vienna, 2024)

• First Prize in Liuzijue and Daoyin 12, 7th International Health Qigong Tournament (Vancouver, 2025)

Publications:

1. Talk Mandarin Chinese

   F. Yu, A. Lamping

   BBC Active, Educational Publishers LLP, 2008

2. Laozi’s Prose Poetry English Parallel Translation

   X. Lian, D. F. Pearson, F. Yu,

   Tsinghua University Press, 2022

About the Course

The course Introduction to the Twenty-Four Solar Terms is Feixia Yu’s ongoing PhD by portfolio project. Its content and results will eventually form an integral part of her thesis.