Shaolin Temple Cultural Center U.S.A
Los Angeles Official Shaolin Kung Fu & QI Gong
MASTER SHI YANXU
延續禪師
Shaolin Zen Master · Founder of
Shaolin Temple Cultural Center USA
Authentic Shaolin Kung Fu · Qigong · Chan (Zen) Lineage
Shi Yanxu
Master Shi Yanxu is a contemporary inheritor of the Shaolin tradition. His life has been shaped by decades of disciplined cultivation, beginning with intensive training in China and continuing through more than twenty years of teaching and system development in the United States.
Rooted in the classical training of Shaolin Kung Fu, Chan meditation, and traditional methods of internal regulation, his work bridges physical discipline and inner cultivation. His early years were dedicated to rigorous practice under established masters within the Shaolin lineage, forming a foundation of structural precision and internal steadiness.
Since establishing Shaolin Temple Cultural Center USA in 2007, Master Shi Yanxu has devoted himself to transmitting authentic Shaolin training in an accessible and sustainable way. Through long-term instruction, seminars, certification programs, and international lectures, he has refined a structured approach to internal cultivation suited to modern life.
His current focus is the continued development of a disciplined, long-term framework of cultivation — one that integrates body, breath, attention, and responsibility into a stable path of growth. This work is not about intensity or expansion, but about continuity and structural integrity over time.
Selected instructors trained under Master Shi Yanxu,
continuing the authentic Shaolin lineage through practice and teaching.
YAN HE
Yan He trained in martial arts at the Shaolin Temple for 10 years. In 2025, at the invitation of Master Yan Xu, he came to the Shaolin Temple Cultural Center to teach.
VERONICA
CHRISTENSON
Veronica Christenson began studying Shaolin Kung Fu in 2008. She teaches the Health classes at the Shaolin Temple Cultural Center.
MANDY NG
Feng Fei learned Kung Fu in the Shaolin Temple. He was asked by Master Yan Xu to come and teach here at the Shaolin Temple Cultural Center in 2016.
PHILIP SAHAGUN
Philip was born into a third generation martial arts family. He is proficient in a number of arts which he has taught and performed worldwide. He has been a dedicated Student of Master Shi Yan Xu since 2006.