Mastery Dojo Directory

Mantak Chia was born in Bangkok,
Thailand in 1944. Recognized very early
as having great potential for spiritual
development, he was initiated into
meditation practices by Buddhist monks at
the age of 6. While studying in Hong Kong,
he learned Tai Chi Chuan, Aikido and
Kundalini Yoga from a variety of teachers.
His pursuit of Taoist teachings lead him to
meet the White Cloud Hermit, a Taoist
Master originally from Central China, living at that time in the mountains not far from
Hong Kong. Master Yi Eng was to become Master Mantak Chia's principle teacher.

Dr. Roger Jahnke began his practice of Tai Chi and Qigong in 1967. He has been to China 8 times to research Qi cultivation and vitality enhancement in hospitals, universities, temples and sacred mountain sites. He has lectured internationally and is the author of two important books of Tai Chi, Qigong and self-healing, The Healer within (Harper-Collins, 1997) and The Healing Promise of Qi (McGraw-Hill, 2002).

Michael Winn is an internationally renowned expert in Qigong and Taoist arts. He has over 30 years of experience in teaching subtle energy methods internationally, from Kundalini Yoga in 70's to tai chi, qigong, and inner alchemy meditation today. He spent many years studying with the top spiritual teachers of his generation.

Chunyi Lin is a certified International Qigong Master and the founder and creator of Spring Forest Qigong. He has taught his techniques to more than 100,000 people through his classes or home-learning courses. He is also Director of the Spring Forest Center in Eden Prairie, MN, where he provides healing assistance to more than 7,000 people from all over the world each year. He is a frequent keynote speaker at medical conferences and is the coauthor of a #1 Amazon.com best-selling book, Born A Healer. Chunyi is also a member of Jack Canfield’s Transformational Leadership Council. Learn more at www.SpringForestQigong.com.

Dr. Yang has been involved in Chinese Kung Fu
since 1961. He has taught for more than 40 years: 7
years in Taiwan, 5 years at Purdue University, 2
years in Houston, and 26 years in Boston. He has
taught seminars all around the world, sharing his
knowledge of Chinese martial arts and Qigong.

Cynthia Rothrock is one of the most prolific and respected Martial Arts movie stars. She has five black belts in different Martial Arts stiles. Among them are Karate, Taekwondo, Tang Soo Do, and Shaolin kung fu. In the 80’s, she was one of the premiere weapons and kata performers in the world and became an undefeated five-times world champion in forms.

Lineage Holder Bruce Frantzis began his martial arts training in 1961. After earning advanced black belts in judo, karate and aikido in America and Japan, he spent more than a decade following the Taoist path of warrior/healer/priest in China, where he was trained by some of its greatest masters. He is the first known Westerner to hold authentic lineages in chi gung, ba gua, tai chi, hsing-i and Taoist meditation. His lineage is directly linked to that of Lao Tse, author of the Tao Te Ching, the second most translated book in the world. He also worked as a chi gung tui na doctor helping to heal over 10,000 patients in Chinese clinics. Frantzis teaches chi gung, internal martial arts, meditation and energetic healing therapies worldwide. In cooperation with his publisher North Atlantic Books/Random House, Frantzis has released eight books including Opening the Energy Gates of Your Body: Chi Gung for Lifelong Health, The Power of Internal Martial Arts and Chi and Tai Chi: Health for Life.

Dr. Pedram Shojai is the director of the Taoist Path School of Alchemy. He has trained with a number of masters throughout the years and focuses his practice on health and healing. His program call “Energy Economics” teaches students to liberate their vital energy through lifestyle practices and an essential understanding of how energy flows in life. From there, he teaches Qigong and mediation techniques to help liberate energy flow and spiritual awakening.

Dr. Stanley Ngui was born into a family of Chinese Philosophy, Traditional Chinese Medicine and Chinese Martial Arts. He has studied intensively with his father, who brought this enriched culture from Canton, China.

Professor Jerry Alan Johnson is one of the few internationally recognized non-Chinese Grand Masters, practicing doctors, and Director/Professor of Medical Qigong Therapy. Having studied Chinese Energetic Medicine for more than forty-one years, he is recognized both in China and the West as America’s leading authority on Medical Qigong Therapy.

Nadia Linda Hole, MD, is a long-time Qigong practitioner, teacher and pioneer with degrees from Princeton, Duke, and Oneness Universities. She was a contributing author of chapters on Pain Management, Neurology, Cardiology, and Qigong for medical textbooks. She also served as a consulting editor for the landmark textbook on Chinese Medical Qigong.

Ken Cohen’s Qigong teaching career spans several decades. His books are considered classics on the subject in the English language. I felt really honored when he not only invited me to attend his class during my recent visit to Boulder, but even asked me to make a brief presentation of Qi Dao to his students. Every time a teacher demonstrates such humility and appreciation of another teacher’s work, it shows how much he or she really walks the talk in terms of recognizing that resonance and cooperation are expressions of being in the flow. Sharing the abundant energy flow is far more resourceful than competition stemming from the scarcity-based beliefs. 

Lee Holden has studied and taught with globally respected wellness experts Mantak Chia and Deepak Chopra, facilitating seminars, writing books, and teaching in the US, Europe, and Asia. A licensed acupuncturist and herbalist in the state of California, Holden received a BA in psychology from UC Berkeley and a Master's Degree in Chinese Medicine from Five Branches Institute in Santa Cruz, California. He has traveled throughout Asia studying QiGong, meditation, and Chinese medicine.

MINGTONG GU is an internationally recognized teacher and healer, who received his training from a variety of Grandmasters of China, Tibet, and at the world's largest Qigong hospital. This "medicine-less" hospital, Zhineng Qigong Center, has treated over 200,000 patients for over 185 different illnesses with a 95% success rate.

Dr. Philip Yang began his studies of Zen Buddhism in the temples of Ling Shan, Whitehorse, Fahua, and many other sacred places in China. He studied with more than a dozen of famous masters in Beijing, Xian, Chengdu, and other parts of China. Under the guidance of masters Yuan Zhao and Ling Nan Zi, he was supposedly trained for supernatural abilities, including clairvoyance, remote diagnosis, and remote healing.

Mark Johnson is one of the founders of the National Qigong Association and contemporary renaissance man. There is only a handful of Westerners with Mark Johnson's training in so many Chinese disciplines. In addition to Tai Chi instruction, Mark specializes in Qigong (which is self healing through movement), Feng Shui (which is the study of the energies of an area), the I Ching (which is China's ancient classic on how things change) and Chinese calligraphy. Mark has integrated these disciplines in creative ways for over 40 years.

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Bill Douglas is the co-founder (together with Angela Wong) of World Tai Chi & Qigong Day. Over a decade ago they invested their life savings in a vision of bringing together the global Tai Chi and Qigong family, so that we might together spread Tai Chi and Qigong to the entire planet at time when it was most needed by a stressed out modern world.

Qigong and Kung fu Master Philip Lai is the Founder and President of the Philip Lai Qi Gong Association. He has been practicing Qigong and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) for over 50 years. He is also a certified Naturotherapist with over 20 years of experience using herbal medicine and Chinese Massage to heal competitive sports and Mixed Martial Arts injuries.

Dr. George Xavier Love, Jr. is an Oriental Medicine Physician, a scholar, warrior, and priest. He healed himself from weight loss through nutritional healing, acupressure, rational-emotive therapy, and spiritual healing with medicine Buddha meditation.  His path of self-healing also made him empathic and compassionate towards others.  He first discovered his healing abilities during the Vietnam conflict when he was able to remove physical and emotional pain from other sailors. After an honorable discharge from the US Navy, he attended the Delaware School of Massage and learned acupressure, shiatsu and amma.

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Dr. Maoshing Ni is a Licensed Acupuncturist, a Diplomat of Chinese Herbology and a Diplomat
in Anti-Aging. He is currently in general practice with special interest in immune, hormonal and
aging related conditions. He was awarded the Outstanding Acupuncturist of the Year Award in
1987. Dr. Mao along with his brother (Dr. Dao) and their father founded Yo San University of
Traditional Chinese Medicine in 1989.

Cathy Mu is a Qigong master and founder of the Thriving Foundation in the San Francisco Bay Area.  Recipient of “The Community Service Award of the Year 2013 with Qigong Excellence”, from the 15th World Congress on Qigong & Traditional Chinese Medicine, Cathy Mu is dedicated to public services through empowerment of individuals and healing of Mother Earth.

Alex Feng is a Doctor of Oriental Medicine, practicing traditional Chinese medicine in both California and New York. In the past, he served as the Chairman of the National Commission for Certification of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicin

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Gary Giamboi founded The Institute of Asian Arts in 1994 in order to continue the tradition of discovering, nurturing and passing on the wisdom of the ancients. He began his Eastern journey in 1969 and has had the unbelievable good fortune to have become a disciple and personal student of four World Class Masters 

Dr. Michael Mayer is a licensed Psychologist, and a teacher of Qigong, practicing in the San Francisco Bay area. He was the training coordinator for Dr. Eugene Gendlin's Focusing Method for 10 years, and co-founded and is a Psychologist for The Health Medicine Institute, a multidisciplinary team of Western doctors and complimentary health practitioners. Over the past 20 years he has practiced and taught various oriental healing arts including: Tai Chi Chuan, Qigong, Acupressure, standing and walking meditations. Dr. Mayer has presented his integrative approach to body/mind healing to professionals at some of the following locations: Doctoral Psychology Program at The California Institute of Integral Studies, and other universities including Bryn Mawr College, John F. Kennedy University, Esalen Institute; conference Sponsored by The National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine; Energy Psychology Conferences in Phoenix, Arizona, Santa Clara, California and Chantilly, Virginia; many hospitals including: UC Medical Center, UC Davis, Mt. Diablo Hospital, John Muir Hospital and Alta Bates Hospital.

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Marisa Cranfill is the founder of YOQI® Yoga + Qigong. Frequent trips to Asia as a child inspired Marisa to study academically and work there for over 20 years. While living in China and Thailand she received direct transmission from Qigong masters, nuns and healers in both the Buddhist and Taoist traditions. The YOQI® method removes energy blockage, and promotes self-healing and spiritual insight.

Tevia Feng is the visionary founder of White Tiger Qigong, a comprehensive system that merges ancient Qigong with cutting-edge science. He engaged with the healing potential of Qigong motivated by his personal recovery from a car accident and overcoming chronic illness. His experiences at a Qigong clinic in China inspired him to dedicate his life to sharing the transformative power of Qigong. He advocates for a holistic approach integrating body, mind, and spirit with the latest scientific research, aiming to empower people towards complete wellness and spiritual growth.

Gregg Wagstaff is a Senior Instructor for the Da Yan / Wild Goose Qigong Association (HQ). He trained under Master Chan Kim Fung (Hong Kong) and Master Wang Tai Li (Beijing). He is the creator of the Da Yan Academy - teaching authentic Wild Goose Qigong online and in-person. Gregg is also a UK certified Acupuncturist & Tui Na practitioner, now living in New Zealand.

Dr. Juli Kramer is a certified Qigong instructor and expert in Chinese Medicine Nutritional Therapy. With her Ph.D. in Curriculum & Instruction and Counseling Psychology, she explores the impact of nurturing and innovative learning environments. Dr. Kramer advocates for creativity in education, offering workshops and courses that promote holistic well-being. Her approach combines Eastern practices with Western pedagogy, fostering balance and harmony in educational settings, empowering her students to achieve personal growth and educational excellence.