John Bracy is the founder of Hsing Chen Internal Arts, a combination of art and science that investigates the most advanced approaches to teaching the traditional Chinese internal arts. Through this method dedicated and sincere students are taught the secrets of the nearly lost keys to the arts of Hsing I, Ba Gua (Pa Kua), Tai Chi, Internal Shaolin, and Chi Kung (qi gong). Through these keys students are taught to critically examine, understand and learn to apply internal energy, internal power and advanced mechanics.
In 1976 Master Bracy founded what was to become the Hsing Chen School. The school served as southern California headquarters for his unique method of teaching the internal arts until the fall of 2002.
John began his study of the martial arts in 1967 at the age of twelve. He has never taken a break from his training and now has accumulated more than 35 years of study. He has studied in the United States, Taiwan and Mainland China and has achieved advanced rankings and honors in several styles of traditional kung fu. His training includes strong concentration in the areas of qi (ch'i) research and development, traditional internal and healing arts, effective armed and unarmed weapon mastery. He is expert in and one of the world’s best teachers of Ba Gua, Hsing I, T'ai Chi, and Taoist self-healing systems.
Some of John’s credentials: Licensed Instructor and Counselor rank from the Taiwan Pa Kua Gate Association (1981), eighth degree instructor level from the same association (1994), Licensed Coach certification from the Beijing Government Full Contact Fighting Association (1989), he is also a lineaged disciple * of the Ba Gua Zhang (Pa Kua Chang) martial art (1988), a distinction that only a handful of non-Chinese can claim.
Non-martial art but related information: B.A., Psychology (1981), trained in acupuncture in Taiwan while a graduate exchange student and researched the psycho-therapeutic applications of acupuncture. Mr. Bracy was one of the first acupuncturists working directly with a M.D. in Orange County, California where he assisted in the treatment of chronic pain patients. At present he also works with physicians where he helps patients find self healing alternatives to medical drugs and surgery.