Master Sun Da-Jin was born in Hangzhou, China and has studied gongfu and qigongsince 1966 under Master Chen Cang-jin, Master Chao Xue-hua, Master Yang Mei-jun, Master Di Yu-ming, Master Xie Zhang-rong, Master Zhuang Yan-sen and Master Chen De-xiong. He is the former director of the Hangzhou Qigong Science Research Institute. He was a disciple of Jin Wei Fashi of Tientai, China. He was an adjunct faculty member of the Integral Health Studies Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. He was a master teacher at the Daoist Longevity Center in San Francisco and is currently a master teacher at the hermitage. His practice includes qigong, herbs, and nutrition for self cultivation and healing. 

Charlotte Sun, RN (ret.), PhD, hermitage director, was the director of the Daoist Longevity Center in San Francisco. She was also the founder and director of the Integral Health Studies Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. She is a registered nurse (retired) and holds a Public Health Nursing Certificate. She is a daoist nun twenty-fourth generation of the Dragon Gate School, was the disciple of Bao Zong-de, the master of the Luo Dong Yan Daoist Temple, Dongyang, China and has been designated to carry on the lineage upon his passing to immediate awareness of the transcendent dao in 1992. She has studied, practiced and taught daoist healing practices including taijiquan, qigong and nutrition in San Francisco and China since 1973. She serves as interpreter for Master Sun Da-jin. She was on the faculty of the Moscow School of Massage, Moscow, Idaho and has served as guest lecturer at the University of Idaho.

In 2014 Qi Magazine published an article “The Making of a Hermitage” Qi Magazine The Journal of Traditional Eastern Health & Fitness Volume 24, No.3, Autumn 2014, pp. 18 – 24 which describes in detail the founding and history of the hermitage. Information on this article may be obtained from Qi Magazine at http://www.qi-journal.com