About Daoscape

Daoscape offers resilience-building resources that revolve around aiming to flow more and stagnate less – beginning with all aspects of mindfulness skills.

These skills are taught by referencing Taoist/Zen principles enshrined within traditional mindful arts passed down to us from ancient China – practices such as standing yoga, nature poetry, and brush calligraphy.

By facilitating the uptake and practice of highly engaging and satisfying traditional Zen arts, Daoscape can help you to take a break from the world's often hectic and relentless babbling - to achieve more mindful flow and insight whilst arriving at great works of art and presence.

2014

Daoscape began hosting weekly mindfulness activities at a traditional Chinese teahouse, in Beijing China - belonging to traditional Fujian tea farmers.

2015

Began running and teaching weekly Zen calligraphy and painting classes to corporate as well as walk-in clients.

2016

Organised and ran mindful hiking and camping trips, which included traditional tea ceremonies, mindfulness meditations, and simple seated yoga in nature. Basic taichi and kungfu taster sessions were also introduced.

2017

Created and began facilitating 8 week general mindfulness drop-in classes on a rolling basis - one 8 week course for entry level mindfulness students and another 8 week course for mindfulness practitioners who already have a mindfulness discipline in place.

2018

Facilitated a number of mindfulness sessions for WeYoga, Beijing - a high end yoga studio run by Indian Yoga Master Ashish Bahuguna.

2019

Published the book Mindfulness: Simple Instructions for a More Mindful Life.

2020

Published the book Mindfulness and Traditional Chinese Zen Arts: The Way of Calligraphy, Painting, Kung Fu, and Tea.

2023

Published the book Tao Te Ching for Mindfulness: A practice-oriented translation of Lao-Tzu’s classic wisdom..

2024

Published the book Tao Te Ching for Zen Poetry: Sketching nature's current using words. Also published the book Tao Te Ching for Zhan Zhuang Standing Yoga.

Tristan Petts is a British educator and artist who spent many years living and working in China. His practice of mindful arts and formal meditation spans more than twenty years, involving formal Buddhist meditation retreats, attending and completing a standard secular eight week Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy MBCT course, attending and completing MBCT instructor training in the United Kingdom, practising and teaching various arts disciplines, as well as traditional Chinese calligraphy, painting, and zhànzhuāng standing yoga.

Tristan holds a university diploma in counselling skills and theory, a masters of science degree from the University of St Andrews in Scotland, and has studied and practised western secular mindfulness meditation alongside traditional Chinese Zen arts for more than a decade.

As founder and director of Daoscape, he is presently working towards promoting how traditional mindful arts, when pursued in combination with a seated mindfulness meditation practice, can help people achieve more mindful flow and insight within their daily lives.