Master Yang Jun is a 6th generation Yang family descendent. Born in Taiyuan, China, he grew up with his grandparents and watched his grandfather, Master Yang Zhenduo, train students. He began training with his grandfather at age five. Later, he began assisting his grandfather at seminars in China. After graduating from Shanxi University in 1989 with a degree in physical education, he began traveling with his grandfather to help teach internationally.

In 1998, the International Yang Family Tai Chi Chuan Association was created by Master Yang Jun and Master Yang Zhenduo with the mission of bringing Yang Family Tai Chi Chuan practitioners together and promoting a system to share the family’s standard of practice of Yang Family Tai Chi Chuan worldwide to help humankind. Master Yang Jun left China in 1999 and moved to Seattle to begin developing the association internationally.

He became the first Yang family member to spread his family’s art in the West. Despite many significant challenges of moving to a new country and culture, including a language barrier, he succeeded in growing the association to currently include over 46 Yang Family Tai Chi Centers and over 37 Yang Family Tai Chi Schools on five continents with teachers in 24 countries. This spreading of Yang Family Tai Chi Chuan internationally has been one of his finest achievements.

He also contributed to increasing tai chi chuan’s visibility in the West by leading the organization of the 2009 and 2014 International Tai Chi Chuan Symposiums in Nashville, Tennessee and Louisville, Kentucky. These events brought grandmasters from the traditional schools of tai chi chuan from China to the USA to teach seminars and exchange ideas with scientists conducting research related to tai chi chuan. At the 2009 symposium, Master Yang Zhenduo officially named Master Yang Jun the 5th generation direct-line inheritor of Yang Family Tai Chi Chuan.

Currently a director at the Seattle/Redmond Yang Family Tai Chi Center in Redmond, Washington, Master Yang Jun frequently travels nationally and internationally to teach. Since 2016, he has travelled more frequently to China to develop Yang Family Tai Chi Chuan in that country. His greatest wish is to unite practitioners in China and the West into one big family where despite national borders and cross-cultural differences, everyone is linked together through their love of tai chi chuan.