Wild Plum —
A Living Practice of
Movement and Medicine
Resilience and Renewal through Yin Yoga, QiGong & Chinese Medicine
Hi, I'm Dhugal Meachem. At the heart of my work is a simple idea:Â
Practice is a way of learning to listen —
to your body, breath, and the rhythms that shape life.
I call this living approach Wild Plum — a blend of QiGong, Yin Yoga, and Chinese Medicine rooted in nature’s teaching of resilience and renewal. For over 30 years, I’ve been exploring how the wisdom of QiGong, Yin Yoga, Chinese medicine and the Chinese philosophy of nature can nourish our lives. When your body, breath, and awareness of the world around us meet — healing arises easier.
What is Yang Sheng?
In Chinese, Yang Sheng means to nourish life. It’s the thread that runs through everything I teach — from movement and stillness to food, thought, and rest. It’s not one discipline but a conversation between many: how we breathe, how we work, how we age, and how we return to balance.
Wild Plum Yang Sheng is my way of sharing that conversation — rooted in old arts, nurturing a very modern life.
Practice as Orientation
Practice here is not about performance or accumulation, but about learning how to live in relationship with change -
in your body, in your mind, even in your soul.
Yin Yoga and Qigong are taught as cultivated practices:Â
Yin Gong (stillness trained to open the body) and Yang Gong (mindful movement trained with breath).
Over time, these become ways of surfing the wave of YOUR life rather than specific techniques you copy from me.
200 to 500hr Yin–Yang Teacher Training
An apprenticeship in Wild Plum practice — weaving Yoga & QiGong, Functional Anatomy, and Chinese Medicine.
For those ready to study over time... as practice and as path.
The Wild Plum Online Yang Sheng Community Practice
Ongoing practice program for cultivating stillness and movement, including the Yang Sheng Mentorship and seasonal rhythms
of Yin Gong and Yang Gong.
Living the Tao in Everyday Life
The way of practice is not about doing more. It’s about sensing when to move and when to be still, when to act and when to yield.
Each pause, each gesture, is an opportunity to return to the harmony that’s already present.
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