Tao – Centro de Cultura Oriental promotes the teaching and practice of traditional Chinese martial arts, emphasizing educational, philosophical, health, cultural and harmonious coexistence aspects.

Founded in 1996 by Si Fu* Clodoaldo S. Castro, its mission is to perpetuate and preserve traditional Chinese martial arts (Kung Fu and Tai Chi Chuan) in a differentiated way, focusing on the physical, mental and spiritual aspects. In this way, it enables a profound approach to this art.

The word Tao*, in Chinese, literally means Path. Here it is used without any religious connotation, in the common sense of the expression, but in a free interpretation of path, indicating an expansion of consciousness, the awakening of the superior potentials of the Human Being and its possible evolution, making use of the knowledge and culture of Humanity, in a spirit of reciprocity and respect.