Mr. Hongchi Xiao was born in Hubei Province, China. He is a natural healer, acupuncturist, and founder of Pailala Institute, a California non-profit organization, dedicating himself to promoting PaidaLajin self-healing method worldwide.

In 1990, Xiao got his MBA and subsequently worked in finance area in the U.S. and Hong Kong for over a decade. Though he had a comfortable life in the business world, Xiao often felt a lack of purpose in life. Starting in 2000, he began to trace his roots of Chinese wisdom. In 2006, he met a monk, who told him that he was destined to study at some temples and monasteries in the mountains of China.

For the next few years, Xiao followed the list mapped out by the monk and studied with healers, Taoists, monks, and hermits. This series of events led him to rediscover Chinese culture and to learn from masters of Classical Chinese Medicine (CCM) as well as many therapies previously thought lost, including Paida, Lajin, acupressure, acupuncture, bone setting, and needle-knife.

Then he began his healing journey in Tibet, where he healed a few thousand people for free. After that, he opened a clinic in Beijing. At this clinic, he asked patients waiting for treatment to practice Paida (slapping) and Lajin, (a special form of stretching). Many people relieved their symptoms simply through Paida and Lajin, before even seeing him for treatment. Suddenly this “healing by oneself” concept took over him.

Since then, Xiao has been dedicated to promoting these treasures, particularly the simplest ones—Paida and Lajin. The other therapies he has mastered do work wonders, they are nonetheless quite complex and are still passive means of “healing by others.” They are not safe, simple, and effective methods of “healing by oneself,” and therefore can’t be easily accessible to all. Instead of healing up to a 100 hundred a day, now he can teach thousands to heal themselves in a day.

Xiao believes that we are our own best doctors. To promote this lifestyle and to empower people to self-heal, Xiao has authored such bestsellers as Journey to Self-Healing, and PaidaLajin Self-Healing in China and Taiwan. Each sold more than one million copies. Now he is traveling the world giving lectures, organizing workshops, and demonstrating PaidaLajin to promote self-healing. He has visited scores of Chinese cities, India, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, Britain, France, Germany, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Holland, Canada, the U.S., South Africa, and Lesotho, etc. New calls will take him to places, big or small when conditions are “ripe.”

Xiao asks doubters and theorists: “Have you tried PaidaLajin?” For Xiao and millions who have benefited, the only way to test the efficacy of PaidaLajin is JUST DO IT!