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Last updated: October 15, 2026
This page contains the core legal and participation policies for DavidBurch.com. Use the links below to jump to the section you need.
Welcome to DavidBurch.com.
These Terms of Use & Purchase (“Terms”) explain the agreement between you and David Burch when you visit DavidBurch.com, create an account, purchase or access a course or membership, attend a live session, download materials, or otherwise use the products and services offered through this website.
Please read these Terms before making a purchase or participating in a program.
DavidBurch.com is operated by David Burch / DBA Energy Center, located in Clovis, New Mexico, United States.
Throughout these Terms, “DavidBurch.com,” “David Burch,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to the person or business operating DavidBurch.com.
Questions may be directed to:
Email: David@DavidBurch.com
DavidBurch.com provides educational materials and instruction related to subjects including Tai Chi, Qigong, mindful movement, breathing practices, meditation, relaxation, balance, walking, wellness, personal practice, and related educational topics.
By using this website, creating an account, making a purchase, enrolling in a program, or participating in a class, you agree to these Terms and any policies incorporated into them.
Those policies include, where applicable:
If you do not agree with these Terms, please do not purchase or participate.
DavidBurch.com provides education and wellness instruction.
Our content and instruction are not medical diagnosis, medical treatment, physical therapy, psychotherapy, or a substitute for care from an appropriately licensed healthcare professional.
David Burch may hold professional qualifications, certifications, licenses, or training in various wellness disciplines. Those qualifications do not turn general website content, courses, videos, books, memberships, or group classes into individualized medical care.
Nothing provided through DavidBurch.com establishes a physician-patient, therapist-patient, or other healthcare-provider relationship.
You should seek appropriate professional care for medical concerns and should not delay or discontinue treatment because of something you read, watch, or learn through DavidBurch.com.
Participation in movement, breathing, and wellness practices is also subject to our Wellness, Movement & Safety Agreement.
People respond differently to movement, relaxation, breathing, meditation, and wellness practices.
We do not promise that participation will diagnose, cure, treat, prevent, or eliminate any disease, injury, mental health condition, or other medical condition.
We also do not guarantee particular improvements in mobility, balance, sleep, stress, pain, mood, fitness, flexibility, strength, fall risk, or quality of life.
When we discuss potential benefits of Tai Chi, Qigong, breathing practices, mindfulness, or related activities, those statements are educational in nature and should be understood in the context in which they are presented.
Individual results vary.
From time to time, DavidBurch.com may share testimonials, student comments, stories, or descriptions of individual experiences.
These represent the experiences of particular individuals. They do not guarantee that another person will experience the same result.
A testimonial should not be interpreted as a medical claim simply because a participant describes a change in their own health, mobility, comfort, stress, sleep, or well-being.
We do not knowingly alter testimonials in a way that changes their meaning.
If a testimonial comes from someone who received compensation, free access, a discount, or another material benefit connected with the testimonial, we will disclose that relationship where required.
You must be legally capable of entering into an agreement to make purchases through DavidBurch.com.
Unless a particular program expressly states otherwise, our paid programs and memberships are intended for adults age 18 or older.
A parent or legal guardian who purchases or authorizes access for a minor is responsible for supervising that minor's participation.
Some products require an account.
You are responsible for:
Your account is intended for your personal use unless the product description expressly permits another arrangement.
Please do not share login credentials, redistribute course materials, or provide unauthorized access to paid content.
We may suspend or terminate access if an account is being used fraudulently, unlawfully, abusively, or in material violation of these Terms.
Whenever reasonably possible, we will attempt to resolve ordinary account problems before terminating access.
The price and material terms shown at checkout at the time of purchase are the terms that apply to that purchase.
Prices may change for future purchases.
A later price change does not retroactively change a completed purchase unless you separately agree to the change.
Taxes may be added where required by law.
Payments may be processed by third-party payment processors. We generally do not receive or store your complete payment-card information when payment information is handled directly by the payment processor.
Some memberships renew automatically.
Before you purchase an automatically renewing membership, we will disclose the material renewal terms, including:
By purchasing an automatically renewing membership, you authorize the applicable recurring charges until you cancel the membership.
Cancellation and refund terms are explained in the Membership, Cancellation & Refund Policy.
If you purchased a membership at a founding-member or other protected rate, the conditions for keeping that rate will be stated when you purchase.
Refund eligibility is governed by the Membership, Cancellation & Refund Policy and by any product-specific terms clearly presented before purchase.
If a product-specific sales page offers a more generous refund policy than the general policy, the more generous policy applies to that purchase.
Nothing in our refund policy limits any refund, cancellation, or other consumer right that applicable law requires us to provide.
Live classes may be offered through Zoom or another third-party video platform.
Technology does not always work perfectly. A temporary internet outage, platform failure, equipment problem, or similar interruption does not necessarily constitute cancellation of a program.
When reasonably possible, we may respond to a disrupted session by providing a recording, replacement session, alternate access, or another reasonable solution.
If we permanently cancel a separately purchased event or program and do not provide a reasonable substitute, we will provide the refund or remedy described in the applicable purchase terms.
Some live sessions may be recorded so that members or purchasers can watch a replay.
Our preference is to focus recordings on David and the instructional content rather than on participants.
If a session may be recorded, participants will be informed.
If you do not want your image or voice included in a recording, keep your camera and microphone off unless you have confirmed that recording has stopped.
If participant contributions are intentionally featured in material intended for public distribution, separate permission may be requested when appropriate.
Private questions involving personal or sensitive information should not be submitted during a recorded portion of a group session.
Unless otherwise stated, DavidBurch.com content is owned by David Burch or used with permission.
This includes, among other things:
Purchasing a product gives you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use that product for your own personal educational purposes.
It does not transfer ownership of the content to you.
Unless we give written permission, you may not:
You may, of course, use what you learn in your own life and personal practice.
If you are an instructor and would like permission to use specific teaching materials professionally, please contact us.
Tai Chi, Qigong, breathing methods, meditation, and many traditional movements are not owned by DavidBurch.com merely because we teach them.
Our intellectual-property rights apply to our original expression, recordings, written materials, program organization, graphics, branding, and other protectable content—not to traditional arts themselves.
Nothing in these Terms is intended to prevent you from practicing or teaching traditional Tai Chi, Qigong, meditation, breathing, or movement methods that you have legitimately learned.
If DavidBurch.com offers comments, discussions, community areas, group classes, or other participant interaction, please treat others respectfully.
You may not use our services to:
We may remove content or restrict participation when reasonably necessary to protect participants or the service.
You remain responsible for information you voluntarily share in a class, community, email, comment, or other communication.
Please use particular care with medical, financial, identifying, or otherwise sensitive information.
Group classes and community spaces should not be considered confidential healthcare environments.
Our treatment of personal information is described more fully in our Privacy Policy.
DavidBurch.com may rely on third-party services for functions such as:
We may also link to websites or resources operated by others.
We do not control every aspect of third-party services and are not responsible for their independent content, policies, security practices, availability, or actions.
Use of a third-party service may also be subject to that provider's terms and privacy policy.
We work to keep our website and services available, but uninterrupted access cannot be guaranteed.
We may occasionally need to:
If a material change substantially affects a paid product, we will make a reasonable effort to provide an appropriate substitute, continued access, account credit, refund, or other fair remedy based on the circumstances.
Tai Chi, Qigong, wellness education, technology, and our own teaching continue to evolve.
We may revise course materials, lesson order, exercises, instructors, technology, scheduling, or supporting resources when we believe doing so improves or maintains a program.
We will not intentionally substitute something materially different for a paid product without providing a reasonable remedy.
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, this website and its content are provided on an “as available” basis.
We do not guarantee that:
Nothing in this section excludes warranties or consumer protections that cannot legally be excluded.
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, David Burch and [LEGAL BUSINESS NAME, IF APPLICABLE] will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, exemplary, or consequential economic damages arising from use of the website or digital services when such damages were not reasonably foreseeable.
For claims arising from the purchase of a digital product or service, any contractual limitation of monetary liability will apply only to the extent permitted by applicable law.
Nothing in these Terms is intended to waive liability or legal rights that cannot lawfully be waived, including duties or remedies that applicable law makes non-waivable.
The risks associated with voluntary participation in movement and wellness activities are addressed separately in the Wellness, Movement & Safety Agreement.
You are responsible for losses or claims caused by your own unlawful conduct, intentional misuse of our services, infringement of another person's rights, or material violation of these Terms.
This provision does not require you to compensate us for losses caused by our own conduct where applicable law places responsibility on us.
If you believe material on DavidBurch.com infringes your copyright or other intellectual-property rights, contact us at [BUSINESS EMAIL] with enough information for us to identify and evaluate the material.
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of New Mexico and applicable federal law, without regard to rules concerning conflicts of laws.
Any dispute that must be resolved in court should be brought in a court of competent jurisdiction in New Mexico where legally permissible.
If the consumer-protection law of another jurisdiction gives you rights that cannot legally be waived or replaced by New Mexico law, those mandatory rights remain in effect.
Nothing in these Terms prevents either party from using a small-claims court when that court has jurisdiction.
If you have a problem with a purchase or service, please contact us before assuming the problem cannot be resolved.
Email: [BUSINESS EMAIL]
Our goal is to deal with legitimate customer problems fairly and promptly.
This informal resolution provision does not eliminate your legal rights or impose a mandatory arbitration requirement.
We may update these Terms as our services, technology, or legal obligations change.
The current version will be posted on DavidBurch.com with its effective or “last updated” date.
Material changes will apply prospectively unless applicable law allows or requires otherwise.
If a material change affects an existing recurring membership, we will provide notice when required by law.
If a court determines that one provision of these Terms is invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue to apply to the extent legally possible.
If we do not enforce a provision on one occasion, that does not mean we permanently waive the right to enforce it later.
These Terms, together with the policies and purchase terms incorporated into them, constitute the agreement governing your use of the applicable DavidBurch.com product or service.
Product-specific terms presented at checkout are also part of that agreement.
If a specific written offer conflicts with these general Terms, the more specific provision controls for that purchase.
Questions about these Terms may be sent to:
David Burch
DBA Energy Center
Clovis, New Mexico, United States
Please use the Support page on DavidBurch.com to contact us.
I want you to stay because the practice is useful to you—not because cancelling is difficult.
This policy explains how memberships, renewals, cancellations, and refunds work at DavidBurch.com.
The complete terms follow.
An annual membership provides access for the membership period shown when you purchase.
If the membership automatically renews, your payment method will be charged again at the beginning of the next annual membership period unless you cancel before renewal.
Your checkout page will identify:
If you purchased a DavidBurch.com Founding Membership at $99 per year, that rate remains your annual membership rate for as long as the membership remains continuously active, subject to the original offer terms.
If you cancel the Founding Membership and later decide to return, the original founding rate is not guaranteed. You may need to rejoin at the price then being offered.
We will not raise a protected founding-member rate merely because the standard membership price later increases unless the original offer expressly allowed such a change or you affirmatively agree to new terms.
When you purchase an automatically renewing membership, you authorize us and our payment processor to charge the applicable membership fee at each renewal until you cancel.
Automatic renewal will be disclosed before you submit payment.
Silence after purchase is not treated as consent to a new or materially different charge that was not part of the agreement you originally accepted.
For annual memberships, our standard practice is to provide advance notice of an upcoming renewal.
The notice should identify:
Where applicable law imposes a particular notice period or method, we intend to follow that requirement.
Please keep the email address associated with your account current.
Failure of an email provider to deliver or display an otherwise properly sent courtesy reminder does not by itself cancel a renewal that you previously authorized, except where applicable law provides otherwise.
You may cancel an automatically renewing membership at any time before the next renewal charge.
Cancellation stops future automatic renewal.
Unless otherwise stated, cancelling does not immediately terminate a membership period you have already paid for. You may continue using the membership through the end of the current paid period.
You may cancel using the cancellation controls available in your account.
If those controls are unavailable, confusing, or do not work, you may cancel by emailing:
Please use the Support page on DavidBurch.com to contact us.
Include enough information for us to identify the membership, such as the name and email address associated with your account.
We will not require you to telephone us solely because you enrolled online.
A reasonable written cancellation request will be honored even if a technical problem prevents you from using the normal account cancellation process.
After a successful cancellation, you should receive confirmation through the website, platform, or email.
Please keep that confirmation for your records.
If you believe you cancelled but receive another charge, contact us promptly so we can investigate.
If you purchase an annual membership and decide it is not a good fit, you may request a refund within 14 calendar days of the initial purchase.
If a refund is issued, membership access may end when the refund is processed.
This 14-day policy is our general customer-service policy. A particular offer may provide a longer refund period.
If an annual membership renews and you did not intend to continue it, contact us within 14 calendar days after the renewal charge.
We will ordinarily refund an unintended annual renewal requested during that period and cancel future renewals.
Access may end when the renewal refund is processed.
This policy is intended to prevent a forgotten renewal from turning into a bad customer experience.
Nothing in this section reduces any greater refund or cancellation right provided by applicable law.
Unless the sales page states otherwise, paid self-paced courses purchased directly through DavidBurch.com may be refunded within 14 calendar days of purchase if you determine that the course is not right for you.
Upon refund, access to the paid course may be removed.
If a course is sold with a longer satisfaction guarantee, the longer guarantee controls.
Because downloadable products may be delivered immediately and cannot literally be returned, standalone digital downloads are normally non-refundable after successful delivery unless:
If there is a problem with a download, contact us. We will first try to replace or correct the file.
Books purchased through Amazon or another third-party retailer are subject to that retailer's payment, return, and refund policies.
DavidBurch.com cannot directly refund a purchase for which we did not process the payment.
If a live workshop or special event is sold separately from a membership, the cancellation terms displayed on that event's sales page apply.
If no special policy is displayed:
Once a live event has occurred and access has been provided, refunds are normally considered based on the circumstances rather than guaranteed.
Please tell us when a technical problem prevents you from accessing something you purchased.
We will normally try to correct the problem by:
If we cannot provide the product or service you purchased within a reasonable period, an appropriate refund may be issued.
If we or our payment processor charged you twice for the same transaction or charged an incorrect amount, contact us.
Verified billing errors will be corrected.
You have the right to dispute a charge with your financial institution when appropriate.
However, many billing problems can be resolved faster by contacting us first.
A chargeback does not create a waiver of either party's legal rights, but access associated with a payment that has been reversed may be suspended while the matter is being resolved.
Approved refunds are generally returned to the original payment method.
The time required for the credit to appear is controlled in part by the payment processor, card issuer, or financial institution.
We reserve the right to deny discretionary refunds in cases involving fraud or clear abuse of a refund policy.
This provision does not eliminate rights provided by applicable consumer law.
We may change the price offered to new members.
For existing members whose renewal rate is not contractually protected, we will provide notice before a material price increase takes effect where required by law.
You will have the opportunity to cancel before being charged a materially increased recurring price.
A rate expressly sold as a lifetime or continuously active founding-member rate will be treated according to the terms of that offer.
For the current $99/year Founding Membership, maintaining continuous membership is the condition for maintaining that founding rate.
A recurring membership should be a continuing choice.
We do not want to retain members by making cancellation obscure or unnecessarily difficult.
If the website or membership platform does not behave the way this policy says it should, contact us so we can address the problem.
For cancellations, refund requests, billing problems, or questions:
David Burch
DBA Energy Center
Please use the Support page on DavidBurch.com to contact us.
Please include the email address associated with your account and enough information to identify the purchase.
DavidBurch.com offers Tai Chi, Qigong, breathing practices, mindful movement, meditation, walking practices, relaxation exercises, self-massage, and related wellness education.
These practices are intended to meet you where you are.
You are always free to make a movement smaller, move more slowly, practice seated, rest, skip an exercise, or stop.
Please read this agreement before participating.
DavidBurch.com provides education and wellness instruction.
Participation does not constitute medical diagnosis, medical treatment, physical therapy, psychotherapy, rehabilitation, or individualized healthcare.
Information provided during a class, video, course, book, membership, email, or other educational setting should not replace advice from an appropriately licensed healthcare professional who knows your individual circumstances.
Do not delay or discontinue necessary medical care because of something taught through DavidBurch.com.
In a video or group class, I cannot fully evaluate your medical history, physical environment, balance, medications, injuries, cardiovascular condition, neurological condition, pain, fatigue, or other individual circumstances.
You are therefore responsible for deciding whether and how to participate.
Instructions are invitations, not commands.
If an instruction does not feel appropriate for you, modify it or do not do it.
Consider seeking appropriate professional guidance before beginning or substantially changing an exercise or breathing practice if you:
This list is not exhaustive.
When in doubt, seek individualized advice from an appropriately qualified professional.
Your capacity can change from day to day.
A movement that felt easy yesterday may not be appropriate today.
You are encouraged to:
There is no prize for pushing through warning signs.
Some movement may produce ordinary sensations associated with effort, stretching, unfamiliar coordination, or muscular use.
Sharp pain, significant pain, or a sensation that feels unsafe is a reason to stop or modify the activity.
Do not deliberately push through pain simply to complete an exercise.
Stop the activity and seek appropriate assistance if you experience symptoms such as:
If you believe you are experiencing a medical emergency, contact emergency services.
DavidBurch.com is not an emergency medical service.
Tai Chi and Qigong may involve standing, shifting weight, stepping, turning, coordination, or periods of single-leg loading.
Those activities can create a risk of losing balance or falling.
Before practicing:
Do not use a rolling, folding, unstable, or otherwise unsuitable chair as balance support.
You do not need to reproduce the instructor's range of motion or balance challenge.
When seated variations are offered, they are not a lesser form of participation.
Practice seated whenever that is the safer or more useful choice for you.
If you are unable to safely perform a standing movement, do not attempt it merely because the instructor is standing.
Breathing practices can affect sensations of relaxation, arousal, lightheadedness, and respiratory comfort.
Unless a specific practice is clearly explained otherwise, do not strain, force the breath, or compete to breathe more deeply than is comfortable.
If a breathing exercise makes you dizzy, distressed, numb, unusually short of breath, or otherwise uncomfortable: stop the exercise and return to ordinary breathing.
If standing, sit or otherwise make yourself safe before continuing.
People with respiratory, cardiovascular, neurological, panic-related, or other relevant conditions should seek individualized professional guidance when appropriate.
DavidBurch.com does not encourage extreme hyperventilation, prolonged breath deprivation, or competitive breath-holding as part of ordinary wellness practice.
Meditation, relaxation, imagery, and increased attention to internal sensations can occasionally bring up uncomfortable thoughts, memories, feelings, or bodily sensations.
You are free to:
These practices are not substitutes for mental-health treatment.
Some programs may include gentle self-massage, tapping, rubbing, or pressure applied by the participant to their own body.
Use comfortable pressure.
Do not deliberately press into an area that is injured, infected, acutely inflamed, recently operated on, unusually painful, or medically restricted.
Unless expressly stated otherwise, DavidBurch.com instruction does not involve inserting acupuncture needles or teaching participants to perform invasive procedures.
Online instruction takes place in an environment I cannot inspect.
Before participating, please consider whether your surroundings are suitable.
Factors may include:
If the environment is not safe for a particular movement, change the movement or choose another location.
During a live online class, the instructor's ability to observe you may be limited.
The instructor may not notice:
Do not assume that silence from the instructor means a movement is medically or physically appropriate for you.
Physical and wellness activities involve some unavoidable risk.
Depending on the practice and the participant, foreseeable risks may include:
Serious injury is uncommon in appropriately modified gentle practice, but no physical activity can be represented as entirely risk-free.
By voluntarily participating, you acknowledge these inherent risks and accept responsibility for choosing the level and manner of participation that is appropriate for you.
You are not expected to:
Your practice belongs to you.
People practice Tai Chi, Qigong, breathing, meditation, and related methods for many reasons.
Some people report meaningful changes in areas such as relaxation, confidence, mobility, balance, stress, comfort, sleep, or general well-being.
No particular outcome is guaranteed.
A personal testimonial or instructor experience does not guarantee the same result for you.
By participating, you agree to take reasonable responsibility for your own participation, including:
You also agree not to intentionally use the instruction in a way that is clearly contrary to the safety guidance provided.
By choosing to participate, you knowingly accept the ordinary and inherent risks associated with the activities you voluntarily perform.
This acknowledgment is intended to confirm informed participation.
It is not intended to waive any legal right or duty that applicable law does not permit to be waived.
Nothing in this agreement releases David Burch or [LEGAL BUSINESS NAME, IF APPLICABLE] from responsibility in circumstances where applicable law prohibits such a release.
Safety instructions given in a recording can only address general circumstances.
A recording cannot know whether your condition has changed since the video was made or since the last time you practiced.
Approach each recorded practice based on how you are doing today.
I want these practices to be usable by as many people as reasonably possible.
Many practices can be adapted by:
If you encounter an accessibility barrier in a course or class, contact us and we will make a reasonable effort to identify an alternative when one is available.
You are welcome to ask general questions about a practice.
However, a group instructor cannot diagnose an injury or determine whether a specific symptom is medically safe through a class chat, email exchange, or brief conversation.
Questions requiring medical assessment should be directed to an appropriately qualified healthcare professional.
By participating in a DavidBurch.com movement, breathing, meditation, or wellness program, you acknowledge that:
Questions about this agreement may be directed to:
David Burch
DBA Energy Center
Clovis, New Mexico, United States
Please use the Support page on DavidBurch.com to contact us.