Daria Fedorova-Moskvina, Wudang Wushu and Tai Chi Instructor.

Wudang Wushu and Tai Chi Instructor

My name is Daria Fedorova-Moskvina or Daria FM.

I’m a Russian born martial artist now living in New York City.

I’ve been practicing Chinese Wushu more than 10 years, five of them in Russia and five in China. Yes, I spent 5 years in China only for studying and practicing kung fu. What does it mean? Just that I take it seriously. You can read my martial arts biography in the lower right column, but I suppose its more important to describe my perspective on the knowledge that I have. Because the individual focus and interpretation of martial arts by a teacher can shape the whole subject one way or another.

These past 10 years I was lucky enough to study from masters who were truly concerned about human development and improving health by practicing martial arts. So I am following my masters and take and teach wushu as a way of internal growth, physical and mental harmony. I believe this is tremendously important for many people at this time.

Practically it means that through wushu I teach self-management skills, including:
• developing sensitivity to your own body and mind, and their needs.
• finding a balanced lifestyle.
• building resilience and the ability to prevent diseases and injury.
• improving connection with yourself and the environment.
• developing skills to release stress and emotional instability.

I work with my students on these skills in addition to the traditional development of the body, through kung fu.

So my final goal is to help my students achieve a state of great physical and mental condition. To become people with strong, well coordinated, and healthy bodies and calm, clear, resilient minds.

Taoists like to say that the human is a Microcosm. I like to understand it such that a human is being the seed of the Universe, containing a whole world inside. To become as big as the Universe everyone needs to work hard to grow, just as every seed must do to become a plant.

MY MARTIAL ART BIOGRAPHY

2005 – Russia, started to practice wushu with master Elena Fedorova.
2005- 2008, Russia, first and third places in wushu championships (city level).
2007 – 2008 wushu seminars in China (taichi, bagua zhang).
2009 – 2013 – China, studying wushu in Wudang Taoist Traditional Gongfu Academy, teacher development class.
2012 – China, became inheritor of Wudang San Feng Pai lineage of taoist kugfu through master Yuan Xiu Gang.
2012-2013 – China, won international wushu competitions at the International Tai Chi Congresses.
2012- present time – United Arab Emirates, Russia – teaching international wushu seminars.
2013 – 2015 – China, studying Taichi Chen style. Private student of master Zhang Yi Shui, Beijing.
2014 – China, became disciple of Chen style taichi through master Zhang Yi Shuei.
2014 – present time – individual wushu teacher.