定
Ding
Deep Stillness
Stop the depletion first. Quiet the nervous system so the body can begin to speak again.
MeditationSound bathsSleep rhythmMindful eating
柔金Roujin
Deep Stillness · Vital Emergence
Classical Chinese mind–body wisdom, translated for the modern world — grounded in evidence, lived in the body. From Hong Kong.
Philosophy · 哲学
The soft overcomes the hard.
柔之胜刚 — our name comes from the Dao De Jing.
Rou 柔 is water — the softest thing in the world, and the one nothing hard can stop. It does not push; it flows around. It is the capacity to pause.
Jin 金 is gold — it does not become gold by imitating anything. It only needs to be lifted from the sand to shine. It is the life-force that emerges on its own.
Roujin is the sequence of the two: first learn to be still, then allow vitality to rise by itself. In an age when machines take over the mind, this is how a person returns to the body.
柔是停下来的能力。金是涌现出来的生命力。
Softness is the ability to stop. Gold is the vitality that emerges.
Roujin · Founding Text
Method · 定生慧
One rhythm, three stages — a mind-body system refined over two thousand years.
生
Sheng
Vital Emergence
Once the body is still, let energy move and life-force return — not forced, grown.
Baduanjin 八段锦PilatesMovement scienceNutrition
慧
Hui
Clarity of Being
Emerging vitality carries an intuitive clarity: you know how you are meant to live.
Classical textsWritingDeep reflection
Every practice here is centuries old — and explainable in the language of neuroscience, endocrinology and movement science. Ancient wisdom does not need to be invented. It only needs to be used again, in every era.
Offerings · 产品
Three densities of the same rhythm.
Immersive Retreats线下静修 · 武当 / 大理 / 上海
Multi-day immersions where the body — not just the mind — experiences a full cycle of stillness and emergence. Some things cannot be taught in a city; they can only be lived on a mountain.
Guizhen 21 · Reset Program归真 21 · 身心重建计划
A guided 21-day cohort, run seasonally: sleep, breath, movement and attention rebuilt step by step through the Ding–Sheng–Hui sequence.
Baduanjin & Movement八段锦 · 普拉提 · 现代运动科学
Classical Chinese qigong taught alongside contemporary movement science — Eastern structure, evidence-based instruction, for modern bodies that sit too long.
Letters & Writing每周一封信 · Ancient Wisdom for the Modern Body
Long-form letters translating the Dao De Jing, the Diamond Sutra and classical mind-body practice for international readers navigating the AI era.
Workshops & Corporate Sessions工作坊 · 企业身心服务
Focused sessions for teams and organisations on attention, recovery and sustainable performance — the questions every workplace is quietly asking.
Founder · 创始人
Not a teacher. Not a guru.
The sister who walks a few steps ahead.
Didi spent her first decades as the model high-achiever — a state-sponsored scholar to Osaka University at eighteen, a master's degree from Duke, a corporate career that looked exactly right on paper. Then her body presented the bill. Perfectionism, she learned the hard way, is not a driving force; it is a slow debt.
Paying that debt back took more than ten years — through Western clinical science and nutrition training at Cornell, through Pilates and movement teaching, through sound-healing study, and finally through weeks of living and training on Wudang Mountain, where the classical texts she had read became something her body understood.
Roujin is the system she rebuilt herself with, made teachable: East and West, ancient and evidence-based, translated by someone who has walked the whole road — and is still walking it, a few steps ahead.
“We are human beings, not human doings.” The line that changed everything
Duke UniversityMaster's degree
Cornell UniversityNutrition certification
Wudang MountainBaduanjin lineage training
Certified InstructorPilates · Sound healing
Contact · 联系
Begin with a conversation.
hello@roujin.coFor retreats, programs, teaching and collaborations. We reply personally — usually within two working days.