Dewid Wei and Group performs at the opening ceremony of International Yoga Festival organised by Parmarth Niketan Ashram in Rishikesh, India.
David Wei-Wei Limin had poor health during childhood, thus began to learn Qigong, Yoga, Tai Chi and other holistic fitness regimens, being taught by masters of yoga, Buddhism and Taoism. David became a teacher of Yin Yang nadis yoga, bringing together the traditions of yoga with the traditions of China.
David is founder of the first Hatha Yoga center in Shanghai in 2000, and he has published the first Chinese Kundalini Yoga books: “7 Chakras Yoga”, “Yin Yang Nadis Yoga for Health”, and “Yoga Medical Class”. He hosts programs of yoga at the Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and acts as a yoga health consultant for the university. He has been invited as a speaker by the 2009 India Tourism Year in China, a guest speaker at the 2010 Shanghai Expo India Pavilion Yoga Culture, and a teacher at the 2012-2013 Japan Yoga Festival.
Parmarth Niketan Ashram in Rishikesh, India organizes the annual International Yoga Festival.
The International Yoga Festival was originally a creation of Uttar Pradesh Tourism, in the days when Rishikesh was still part of Uttar Pradesh. Held at Hotel Ganga Kinare in the first week of February, the Festival ran for many years and attracted a small number of participants. In 1999, the Government of Uttar Pradesh approached Parmarth Niketan Ashram to host the Festival at the ashram. Participants were still staying at the hotels, but their classes and programs were held at Parmarth. Pujya Swami Veda Bharatiji gave inspiring discourse and led mediations. Yogasanas were taught by Yogacharya Bharat Bhushanji and his team. The Uttar Pradesh Tourism Department was led by Shri Ravindra Singh, Director General Tourism, Shri B.M. Vohra, Commissioner, Garhwal and Shri R.C. Pandey, Assistant Director, Tourism. What began with a handful of people in a hotel, studying under one or two yogacharyas has
