Welcome to Little Nine Heaven Internal Kung fu and Tai Chi School Chicago. We teach the Way and its power, by offering training in authentic Taoist and Shaolin systems of Chinese  martial arts and Chinese healing with an emphasis on health, practical self defense, and teaching experienced professional warriors, serious martial artists, as well as beginners how to develop their abilities to their fullest potential.
We offer classes, in Highland Park, Illinois, and at DePaul University's Lincoln Park Campus in Chicago. We also offer private lessons in Highland Park at our school (Kwoon), or Private lessons at your home or office in Chicago as well as the Northern and Southern Suburbs.
We are also offering three types of weekly classes. 
New Splashing Hands Chinese Boxing (Shaolin Zan Shou Quan) Classes
Hsing-I Chinese Boxing (Xing Yi Quan) Classes
Chen style Tai Chi Chuan (Chen Taijiquan) Classes.

At Little Nine Heaven we teach executive solutions for conflict management, and problems solving for all situations that require dynamic action. 

The Kung fu systems instructed at Little Nine Heaven have been passed on from generation to generation. These arts are the real thing, not a hybrid, not a sport, and not a non lineage, non traditional system.    Each of Little Nine Heaven’s systems of martial arts and Chinese healing is instructed with the purpose of enhancing student’s lives as well as helping students improve their health and fighting abilities. Everything instructed is carefully explained and easily learned. Each technique, meditation, form, and chi gong exercise, fighting application, and sparring session has value either for its health benefits, its use in combat, or its use to help condition students for combat.  The systems that are taught are useful, practical, and have been tested by many previous generations of masters.   
At Little Nine Heaven Wu Tao, we pride ourselves in being a family. When a person is accepted as a student at Little Nine Heaven, they also become a member of our local and international community.  It is the goal of the instructors to pass the systems we have learned down to the next generation perfectly preserved and unscathed by the many corrupting forces that would cause them to become blemished.
These systems have been practiced by some of the greatest martial arts masters that have ever lived, and these arts helped them to live to pass them down to the next generation, therefore it would be wrong to change, modify or transform these systems to make them less combat effective, less complete, or to change them for use in tournaments or sport. However this is not clinging to the past, but instead by preserving these systems, it keeps them as the birthright of the generations that will follow, so that the wisdom gained by the experiences of these teachers is not lost.  Well preserving these arts through a careful tradition at Little Nine Heaven the instructors work towards helping each student achieve their personal goals, and to use the empowerment gained through increased martial skill to help students achieve their health or martial arts goals.  We hold the attitude that ‘’a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step,’’ and so does the path towards personal growth and self enlightenment. 

Little Nine Heaven is accepting beginners to martial arts as students, but we specialized in training already experienced martial artists, to both learn something new as well as learn to improve their past skills in their previous arts.  Many students both beginners and experienced martial artists have expressed that they feel like are learning martial arts at the graduate level.  Old age is not generally a factor in these arts, and the best practitioners are generally the ones that have studied the longest, even into very old age.  Internal styles of martial arts are famous for their ability to keep their practitioners’ healthy both from out side threat as well as internally as they age.  These arts work to preserve the body, not to cause it further injury.  The internal martial arts such as Hsing-I (Xing-I), Ba Kua ( Pa Kua), Tai Chi Chuan, and Hsiao Chui Tien (Little Nine Heaven or Nine Chamber Fist),  focus on strengthening the internal organs to help them retain or enhance functionality, and to help prevent many of the effects of aging, such as the onset of chronic diseases.  These arts were created by the ancient Taoists and have been an important part of Eastern medicine that has been practiced for many centuries.  They are more recently becoming popularized as a form of alternative medicine, with an increasing role in preventative modern western medicine.   

In a recent school survey from November 2006 the Chicago branch has found that the median age of an average student at the school is 36 years old.  Students surveyed had an average of 2.5 black belts per student from previous martial arts training.  Students are very devoted, and the average students commute is 45 minutes.  The school’s student body at the time of the survey was around 30 active students, taking private lessons, or attending weekly classes, or coming annual school events.  A large section of our students at the school are from many of the following types of life styles such as, currently or preciously instructors’ of other styles of martial arts, veterans, law enforcement officers, government agents, active duty military or reservists, as well as many extremely successful professionals among students.  Class sizes average around four to ten people per class, and students receive large amounts of one on one of attention from the instructor.  Students are friendly and regularly meet outside of class to practice. Students are expected to individually practice outside of class.  Classes and private lessons are for people age 16+.  Students under eighteen must have parent’s permission.