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.

Veteran Qigong teacher Daisy Lee created Radiant Lotus Qigong to help people from all walks of life to heal, nourish, and harmonize their body, mind and emotions. Discover a deeper level of health and wellbeing:

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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Shifu Jianye Jiang was born in 1950 and has studied Wushu from the age of 5, learning from well-known masters such as Yu Mingwei, Yu Hai and many others. He received BA and master's degrees from Qufu University and Shanghai Physical Education Institute. A national and international judge in China and the U.S., he is also a master calligrapher and winner of national and international awards. Sales of his calligraphy have garnered more than $10,000, all donated to the Shandong Disabled Association. He has also acted in movies produced in China, Australia, and Japan.

Having studied for over 25 years, Dr. Bernard Shannon is an internationally recognized teacher of Medical Qigong therapy, Daoist cultivation, alchemical and mystical practices, and martial concepts. 

Dr. Shannon is the Executive Director of the International College of Medical Qigong. He is licensed through the People's Republic of China as a doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine and as a doctor of Medical Qigong.

Dr. Aihan Kuhn is an expert on the subject of Natural Healing and Wellness.  She is director and funder of Chinese Medicine for Health, and the New England School of Tai Chi,  in Holliston, Massachusetts.  She is dedicated to educating everyone about the benefits of holistic medicine.  She has published two books and provides many lectures and speeches nationwide, to both the medical profession and the general public.

Donald Rubbo grew up in New York City, New York. In 1969, at the age of 12, Donald started studying karate, and then switched to the Chinese form, learning Shao Lin Chuan from "Nelson" at Five Tigers Martial Arts on Chambers Street. At 16, Donald became legal guardian for his younger brothers and at 18 he moved with them to San Francisco. Donald started attending Grandmaster Kuo Lien Ying's martial arts studio across from Portsmouth Square Park in Chinatown, continuing with Shao Lin Chuan training.

Being connected with nature has always been an intrinsic part of Dr. Rogers' life. He especially enjoyed playing in woods and family vacations in the mountains while growing up. Further mountain adventures included the three great Treks in Nepal; hiking in the French, Swiss, Spanish, German, and Italian Alps; spending seven summers during his twenties as a climbing instructor, mountain guide, and Outward Bound instructor in the Oregon Cascades, Washington Cascades, Tetons, and Wind River Range in Wyoming; climbing his first big wall in Yosemite at age 21, and spending five days climbing El Capitan in 1975. His last wall climb was the North Buttress of Middle Cathedral Rock at age 47 -- in a day.  Given his love of the outdoors, discovering Taoism on his first Qigong study trip to China was nothing short of an epiphany.

Damaris Jarboux is one of the original founders of the National Qigong Association (NQA) in 1996. She holds their highest certifications, a Level 4 Teacher and Advanced Clinical Practitioner. An RN for 40+ years, she has trained in Medical Qigong, Healing Touch and Energy Medicine for over 30 years including a prolonged Asian trip and 4 extensive trainings in China.  She has studied esoteric Christianity and The Divine Feminine through Anthroposophy and cosmic dance for 25 years. 

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Al Dacascos is known as one of the grandfathers of Kung fu in America. Since the founding of his unique fighting art, Wun Hop Kuen Do in 1969, he has become one of the most noted martial artists of our era. An eighth degree Black Belt, Dacascos has won over 200 Championships and appeared on just as many Martial Arts magazine covers over the years. In 1977 he was indoctrinated into the Black Belt Hall of Fame as Instructor of the Year and again in 1992 by Inside Kung fu Magazine. Two of the worlds most prestigious Martial Arts magazines.

Dale Napier, author of Tai Chi In Your Life, is a Chuan Zen, or lineage transmitter, of Yangjia Michuan Taijiquan, an early version of Yang family taijiquan that predates Yang Cheng-fu.  He has been practicing martial arts since 1965, and Tai Chi Chuan since 1977.  Although he chose to focus his martial arts study on Tai Chi Chuan years ago, before that he trained in ninjutsu, karate, judo, Northern Shaolin kung fu and Tae Kwon Do.  A former taijiquan teacher at the University of Houston Downtown, he now teaches at the Houston Arboretum and Nature Center.

As the partner and associate of Eckhart Tolle, the author of the best-selling books The Power of Now and A New Earth, Kim Eng travels with him extensively taking his teachings around the world. 

Born in Vancouver, Canada, Kim's spiritual search began in the early 1980s. She met Eckhart in 1998, and soon after went through a transformational spiritual experience while attending one of his retreats. After seven years of intense spiritual training, she began counseling and showing others how to discover their own inner teacher and healer.

Rebecca Kali is internationally recognized as a inspiring and passionate Qigong instructor and gifted subtle-energy healer. Her personal experience of healing from injuries received in an auto accident, chronic pain and fibromyalgia, have an important message for anyone interested in health care. That experience  led her to become a champion and spokesperson  for the health maintenance and healing benefits of practicing Qigong and also to develop a program of Qigong for Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome that has helped hundreds of people to live a life free of pain.  Kali's motto is: "No one should be in pain."

Teja Bell began his journey studying Martial Arts in 1965 with Judo under Tatsumo Makami. He received his first black belt ranking in Tae Kwon Do/Karate under In Mok Kim. He competed in tournaments and did full contact fighting. Shortly thereafter, he started learning Yoga and Meditation with Sarah Plummer. In 1969 he branched off to explore Theosophy and Zen Meditation just to get into studying Aikido with Jeff Fox in 1971. He deepened his Aikido studies with Robert Nadeau and Frank Doran at City Aikido in San Francisco. Yang Style Tai Chi and Qigong followed, taught by Li Leita, who was a lineage master in the Yang Style.

Dr. Ted Cibik is the founder and executive director of Inner Strength, Inc. He has made health, healing and wellness his passion all his life, and his profession for many years. He is a gifted motivational speaker who delivers unforgettable presentations for conferences and employee appreciation events. He inspires and motivates audiences with a direct, down-to-earth style that includes a healthy dose of dry humor, colorful analogies, with a deep understanding and empathy for how the human mind works. His programs and professional practice have helped many people experienced sudden shifts in consciousness that radically changed their lives forever. Dr. Cibik focuses attention on each client, recognizing that every individual has different needs and solutions for health issues. His interest in health and wellness techniques began at a very young age. Diagnosed at the young age of 4 with 'incurable asthma', young Ted was one of the 10 worst asthma cases that had ever been documented at this time. In order to control these attacks at a very young age, he began meditating at the age of 5 and later researched nutrition aspects and strictly controlled his diet. Martial arts training and weight lifting activities were a part of his wellness routine for building body strength and lung capacity. While the physicians predicted that he would not live to be an adult, he was able to not only survive their predictions, but go on to found his own business in health and wellness to help others. The company began as a personal training and martial arts center under Dr. Cibik's personal guidance. It later expanded to include a unique blend of naturopathy, traditional Chinese medicine, nutritional counseling, and breathing / meditation therapies as well as corporate seminars on health, wellness and self-defense topics.

Sam is one of the most recorded internal martial artists of
all time. He has been filmed in countless demonstrations,
competitions and classes and was the first instructor to
publish a video instructional manual on the subject of
Push Hands. Through Little Productions, he has produced over 20 instructional films on
subjects such as Taijiquan, Push Hands, Qigong and Xingyiquan and has several major
instructional video works in development. Sam has served as a martial arts action
consultant, trainer and choreographer on various TV programs and stage productions,
and is himself the subject of two documentaries on Taijiquan and the internal arts. He is
currently working on a feature length documentary entitled 'Tai Chi People'.

Gary began his Tai Chi career in 1974 in Chicago. He studied Temple Style Tai Chi Ch'uan as taught by master Waysun Liao. Gary took his studies very seriously from the beginning. In 1977, his Tai Chi practice developed into a full time job, requiring from 6 to 8 hours of practice per day. According to him, the Temple Style of Tai Chi Ch'uan was passed from the master to a disciple as a “real” Tai Chi system. It incorporated all aspects of this highly revered and famous art including forms, standing and sitting meditations, martial art applications and fighting, two person sensitivity training and high performance endurance training.

Michael received master level trainings from Wan Sujian and Duan Zhi Liang during several China visits. In 2003, he received a Daoist Priest ordination in the Longmen Dragon Gate sect. He was also certified by Master Wan Sujian as a Teacher of Bagua Xundao Gong as well as experienced training with Master Xin at Heng Shan Mountain Temple.

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.

Dr. Larry Dossey is a former physician of internal medicine and former Chief of Staff of Medical City Dallas Hospital.  He received his M. D. degree from Southwestern Medical School (Dallas), and trained in internal medicine at Parkland and the VA hospitals in Dallas. Dossey has lectured at medical schools and hospitals throughout the United States and abroad. In 1988 he delivered the annual Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Lecture in New Delhi, India, the only physician ever invited to do so. He is the author of eleven books dealing with consciousness, spirituality, and healing

Dr. Lawrence Galante is perhaps best known for his book Tai Chi, the Supreme Ultimate and as a senior student of the great Tai Chi teacher master Cheng Man-Ch'ing. He is also known in the Healing Arts as one of the founders, directors, and teachers of the Atlantic Academy of Classical Homeopathy, which offered classes and certification in Homeopathy, as well as lectures by internationally renowned Homeopaths.

Kim Ivy is the founder of Embrace The Moon Taijiquan & Qigong in Seattle, Washington, which is a thriving school of practitioners of all ages, skill & fitness levels.  Embrace The Moon has been a focus in the Seattle community for 15 years successfully integrating both Western & Eastern methods of learning within an optimistic & supportive environment. The school offers study in the entire spectrum of Taiji & Qigong: health, martial skill, meditation, and overall self-development as well as Instructor Training. Embrace The Moon is also active in Corporate Wellness programs offering consulting, program development & teacher placement for a variety of modern needs.  

James Donnelly began studying tai chi in 1999, at the legendary 103-acre Tai Chi Farm, school of the late taiji Master Jou, Tsung Hwa. After marrying his teacher, a senior student of Jou’s, he began teaching in 2001. That same year he was instrumental in the donation of a memorial to Master Jou, in Warwick Town Park, in Warwick NY. There it remains the only public monument to a tai chi master anywhere in the U.S. In 2002, he founded the American Society of Internal Arts, also known as A.S.I.A., an educational organization whose mission is to promote the internal arts through workshops, seminars and events. In 2003, James revived the annual Zhang San Feng Festival, which had been on hiatus since the passing of Jou, Tsung Hwa.

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.