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World Tai Chi and Qigong Day OFFICIAL ONLINE SUMMIT SERIES
Spring 2020 Official Inaugural World Tai Chi and Qigong Day
ONLINE QIGONG SUMMIT
Featuring top master/teachers, authors, researchers, and philosophers in the world of Tai Chi, Qigong, and Mind-Body Arts from around the planet
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World Tai Chi
& Qigong Day
OFFICIAL ONLINE QIGONG SUMMIT'S VIDEOS
IN THEIR ENTIRETY ...
Monk Yun Rao,
author of "Tai Chi: The Perfect Exercise"
WTCQD Official Online Summit
Master Terry Dunn, of "Tai Chi for Health" DVD series,
on the World Tai Chi & Qigong Day Summit
Master Kam Yuen, kung fu consultant for famed "Kung Fu" TV series,
on the World Tai Chi Day Summit
Bill Douglas, Founder of World
Tai Chi & Qigong Day;
2009
Inductee to the World Internal
Arts Hall of Fame;
and author
of several books on Internal
Arts
on the World Tai Chi
Day Summit
Dr. Effie Chow, Founder of
the"World Congress on Qigong"
on World Tai Chi Day Summit
Master Chunyi Lin,
Founder of Spring Forest Qigong,
on the World Tai
Chi & Qigong Day Summit
Master, Roger Jahnke, co-Founder of the NQA
on World Tai Chi Day Summit
Master Violet Li, Tai Chi
author/columnist & teacher,
on the World Tai Chi & Qigong Day
Summit
Master Michael Winn,
Co-Founder of the National Qigong Association,
on
the World Tai Chi & Qigong Day Summit
Author,
Michael Mayer
on Internal
Arts from
decades of
practice,
teaching,
&
research. On
the World Tai
Chi & Qigong
Day Summit
Author/Teacher, George Love on
Internal Arts from decades of practice, teaching,
& research,
on the World Tai Chi & Qigong Day Summit.
Sifu Chris Shelton
on Internal Arts from his decades of practice and
teaching,
on the World Tai Chi & Qigong Day Summit
Sifu Van Bodhi on the
World Tai Chi & Qigong Day
Summit
Author/Teacher/Researcher Norm Shealy on Internal Arts,
World Tai Chi & Qigong Day Summit
PANEL DISCUSSION
with Sifu/Author Violet Li, Sifu Chris Shelton,
and Author/Teacher Michael Mayer WTCQD Summit
PANEL
DISCUSSION
with
Author/Teachers
George Love,
Monk Yun Rou,
Chunyi Lin,
and Terrance
Dunn. WTCQD Summit
PANEL DISCUSSION: with
Author/Teacher Bill Douglas, Masters: Dr. Effie Chow,
Roger
Jahnke & Michael Winn. WTCQD Summit.
Official WTCQD Online Qigong Summit Presenters - Spring 2020 Summit
presenters
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dr. effie chow ... president's council on alternative medicine and founder of the world congress on qigong
Dr. Effie Chow, Founder of the World Congress on Qigong
Dr. Effie Chow - President's Council on Complimentary Medicine
- Biography ...
- "Dr. Effie Chow is an internationally renowned expert in Qigong and Taoist arts with over 30 years of experience in teaching subtle energy methods internationally. She is one of the most recognized leaders in the field of Qigong in America today.
Recipient of the ""Visionary of the Year 1997,"" ""The Humanitarian of the Year 1999"" and ""The Visionary of the Decade 2000"" Awards, Dr. Effie Chow has for over 40 years been working to integrate Qigong and Traditional Chinese Medicine with Western Medicine. Toward this goal, she founded the East West Academy of Healing Arts in 1973 in San Francisco. In 1988 an arm of that organization was established within the Academy to promote research and clinical work in medical Qigong.
In 2003 she was appointed by the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago to their National Task Force on The 21st Century Initiative on Life and Health. In 2004 she was invited to join the 15 member international Advisory Board of the CAM Health Expo, and in 2005 - the 20 member Advisory Board of the National Library of Medicine - Asian American Health Website Users Group. In 2006, Dr. Chow became an Associate of AHA! Ventures Int'l. In 2007, the Editorial Board of the Boardroom Inc., Bottom Line Women's Health Publications, and Editorial Board of the prestigious new ""super peer-reviewed publication, ""The Journal of the Science of Healing Outcomes"". In October of the same year, American Association of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine honored her as one of the ""Pioneers and Leaders of Oriental Medicine in the USA""."
sifu kam yuen ... kung fu consultant for legendary "kung fu" tv series
Sifu Kam Yuen, Kung Fu Consultant for legendary "Kung Fu" TV Series, with David Carridine
Official WTCQD Online Qigong Summit Presenters - Fall 2020 Summit
Sifu Kam Yuen - Kung Fu Consultant for Legendary "Kung Fu" TV Series
- Biography ...
- Sifu Kam Yuen, DC has been the world’s foremost expert and leading grandmaster of Shaolin Kung-Fu for nearly half a century. He is a published author and martial artist, frequently appearing on the covers of different martial arts magazines.
He was also the technical and Kung-Fu advisor on the original “Kung-Fu” TV series and thus was instrumental in bringing authentic Kung-Fu to the international audience.
Dr. Yuen was the first person (doctor or otherwise) to eliminate the pain, stress, and ailments of people from all walks of life on the spot within seconds on live television and radio. He was also the first person to integrate body-mind-spirit interactive protocols as a means of getting immediate results to resolve any and all of life’s problems.
Dr. Yuen is always innovating and continuously pushing the envelope for the maximization of our human potential physically, mentally, and spiritually. He has taught, or as he calls it, “directed” thousands of people from all across the world to eliminate their stress, pain, and ailments in his teleseminars and teleclinics. ""
chunyi lin ... founder of "spring forest qigong"
Sifu Chunyi Lin, Founder of "Spring Forest Qigong"
Official WTCQD Online Qigong Summit Presenters - Fall 2020 Summit
Sifu Chunyi Lin - Founder of Spring Forest Qigong
- Biography ...
- "Chunyi Lin is the creator and founder of Spring Forest Qigong. His fluency in numerous Chinese dialects provided him the rare opportunity to study with many of the most respected Qigong Masters in his native China. He has been teaching Qigong and using Qigong techniques to help others for more than twenty-five years. He is also highly skilled in Tai Chi, Chinese herbal medicine and acupuncture.
Since coming to the United States in 1995, he has helped more than 100,000 people learn about the powerful, healing benefits of Spring Forest Qigong. He now devotes all of his time to the teaching of Spring Forest Qigong and helping others. His dream is “a healer in every family and a world without pain.”
In 2004 Master Lin created an educational partnership with Normandale Community College of Bloomington, MN to provide courses in Spring Forest Qigong health and healing techniques. He is the director of the Spring Forest Center for Health, Wellness & Empowerment in Minneapolis, MN. As many as 200 people, from across the United States and many foreign countries, come to his center for healing assistance every week. He teaches four levels of Spring Forest Qigong and has created a series of home study materials for students, including videos, guided audio meditations and reference manuals. He is a frequent keynote speaker at national health conferences.
He is co-author of the bestselling book, Born A Healer, and coauthor with Dr. Nisha Manek from the Mayo Clinic of a chapter on Qigong in the recently released 2nd Edition of the Textbook of Complementary and Alternative Medicine. "
yun rou ... author of "Tai Chi: The Perfect Exercise" qigong"
Monk Yun Rou (formerly Arthur Rosenfield), author of "Tai Chi: The Perfect Exercise"
Official WTCQD Online Qigong Summit Presenters - Fall 2020 Summit
Monk Yun Rou - author of "Tai Chi: The Perfect Exercise"
- Biography ...
- "Monk Yun Rou is sometimes called the new Alan Watts for his teachings and the Zen Gabriel Garcia Marquez for his writings. Daoist Monk (formerly Arthur Rosenfeld) received his academic education at Yale, Cornell, and the University of California and was ordained a monk in an official ceremony at the Chun Yang Daoist Temple in Guangzhou, China. His work has appeared in Vogue, Vanity Fair, Parade, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, WebMD, Fox Business News, and numerous other websites and newspapers.
His more than 20 award-winning non-fiction books and novels of magical realism focus on philosophy, history, compassion, and culture. From 2010 – 2013, he hosted the hit (reaching 60MM households) national public television show Longevity Tai Chi with Arthur Rosenfeld. The American Heart Association profiled Yun Rou as an inspirational resource in 2016.
Monk Yun Rou began his formal martial arts training in 1980 and has studied with some of China’s top Chen-style tai chi grandmasters. In July 2014, Yun Rou joined the heads of the five tai chi families on the dais, representing American tai chi, at the International Tai Chi Symposium in Louisville, Kentucky. He teaches in Southern Arizona, South Florida, and around the world."
roger jahnke ... author of "The Healing Promise of Qi"
Sifu Roger Jahnke, author of "The Healer Within"
Official WTCQD Online Qigong Summit Presenters - Fall 2020 Summit
Roger Jahnke - author of "The Healing Promise of Qi"
- Biography ...
- 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).
With the concept that the community, the corporation and other organizations are large bodies that can become sick or elect to sustain health, Dr. Jahnke commenced his activity in the field of health promotion, disease management, corporate wellness, benefits assessment and productivity enhancement in 1978 when he developed a series of retreats targeted at elders and executives.
In 1980 Dr. Jahnke moved his clinical and consultation practices to Santa Barbara, CA. In 1983 he co-founded Health Action, which is a clinic as well as a training, consulting and strategic planning organization. Its purpose is to assist hospitals, agencies, communities, corporations, schools and other organizations to focus on health improvement and community empowerment. A primary program which was developed and refined over 25 years is the Health Action Wellness Coaching program using the Circle of Life Coaching System.
In 2000 Dr. Jahnke founded the Institute of Integral Qigong and Tai Chi which has trained 300 mind-body practice teachers and over 500 Tai Chi Practice Leaders. A couple of years later, he established Healer Within Foundation to bring the benefits of mind-body practice and wellness coaching to populations that are otherwise unable to afford the benefits.
dr. michael mayer ... author of "Living Younger Longer"
Dr. Michael Mayer, author of "Living Younger Longer"
Official WTCQD Online Qigong Summit Presenters - Fall 2020 Summit
Dr. Michael Mayer - author of "Living Younger Longer"
- Biography ...
- Michael Mayer, Ph.D., licensed psychologist and Qigong/Tai Chi teacher, specializes in giving his patients self-healing methods for health problems. He presents his approach to bodymind healing at professional conferences, national/international workshops, universities, and hospitals.
Dr. Mayer was a co-founding Faculty for John F. Kennedy University’s Transpersonal Psychology program and co-founded an integrative medical clinic where he worked for a decade. He pioneered the integration of Qigong and psychotherapy and was the first person in the United States to train doctoral psychology students in these methods at an accredited university.
Dr. Mayer’s book Bodymind Healing Psychotherapy was the first psychotherapy book to integrate psychotherapy and Qigong. Michael has trained with many respected masters of Tai Chi/Qigong, including four decades at the Integral Chuan Institute with Master Fong Ha. He was a keynote speaker for the National Qigong Association; and the American Tai Chi and Qigong Association certified Michael as a master Tai Chi instructor.
Dr. Michael has twenty publications on bodymind healing, including six books, various articles and assorted media. His latest book, The Path of a Reluctant Metaphysician: Stories and Practices for Troubled Times, won a Ben Franklin award in the mind-body-spirit category. Michael's guiding image of "two streams becoming one" guides him as he joins East/West, mind/body and ancient/modern in his work.
sifu michael winn ... former President of the National Qigong Association
Sifu Michael Winn, former President of National Qigong Association
Official WTCQD Online Qigong Summit Presenters - Fall 2020 Summit
Sifu Michael Winn - former President of the National Qigong Association
- Biography ...
- 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.
Michael spent many years studying with the top spiritual teachers of his generation. Mr. Winn served two terms as the President of the National Qigong Association. He has also served as the Chairman of Healing Tao Instructors Association of the Americas for 9 years.
He was one of the original Senior Instructors that launched the Healing Tao, also known as Universal Tao, which globally has certified over 1000 instructors and brought the Tao teachings to hundreds of thousands of people. He has led a dozen of China Dream Trips helping develop a relationship between the Western and Chinese Taoists in their sacred mountains and temples and pioneered taking the Western Taoists into caves on Huashan (Flower Mountain) in China to meditate.
Mr. Winn is the Founder and Director of Healing Tao University summer retreat program (now located at the Heavenly Mountain in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains) - the largest Taoist arts program in the west.
dr. george love ... author of "Build a Shield for Your Immune System in Just 12 Weeks
Dr. George Love, author of "Build a Shield for Your Immune System in Just 12 Weeks"
Official WTCQD Online Qigong Summit Presenters - Fall 2020 Summit
Dr. George Love - Grandmaster of Blue Dragon Immortal Qigong
- Biography ...
- Grand Master of Blue Dragon Immortal Qigong, licensed Acupuncture Physician and Doctor of Asian Medicine since 1986
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.
Dr. Love attended the International Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Montreal. He also lived in New York City's Chinatown for three years while he apprenticed to Korean, Japanese and Chinese practitioners before meeting his Qigong master. Professor John Lee taught him Qing Lung (blue dragon) Qigong, Tui-na (Chinese medical Massage) and herbal medicine. Professor Lee named George Zhen Wu and appointed him the 13th lineage holder of Qing Lung Qigong in 1985.
Moving to Florida in 1986, George obtained his license as an Acupuncture Physician. In 1987 He wrote a book about his experience with treating HIV positive patients. This book was called Build a SHIELD for your Immune system in just 12 weeks. He spent several year traveling and teaching people all over the country about Qigong healing the immune system in a workshop called 21 Days to Wellness.
Terry Dunn - Presenter in acclaimed "Tai Chi for Health and Chi Kung For Health" DVD series
Terry Dunn - Presenter in acclaimed "Tai Chi for Health and Chi Kung For Health" DVD series
Official WTCQD Online Qigong Summit Presenters - Fall 2020 Summit
Terry Dunn- Presenter in acclained "Tai Chi for Health and Chi Kung For Health" DVD series
- Biography ...
- Terence Dunn is a master instructor of Chinese martial, yogic, and healing arts with more than 42 years of training based in Los Angeles, CA. Since 1990, he has popularized Tai Chi Chuan and authentic Qigong practices throughout America and Europe through his highly acclaimed Tai Chi for Health and Chi Kung For Health DVD series, and has pioneered the practice of Tai Chi and Qigong in modern medicine and professional sports since 2000.
Educated at Yale College and the Harvard Business School, Dunn is a gifted teacher, author and filmmaker who expresses an ecumenical vision in preserv-ing some of the most rare and powerful ancient Chinese martial, healing, yogic , and spiritual traditions. Master Dunn's experience in Chinese holistic health practices includes more than 38 years in T'ai Ch'i Ch'uan and two complete Taoist monastic systems of Qigong, and more than 42 continuous years in three styles of Chinese boxing (kung-fu).
He has studied Kung-Fu arts under some of the most renowned Chinese martial art masters who immigrated to the West: Grandmaster Doo Wai of Ehrmei Mountain White Tiger Kung Fu (Bok Fu Pai), Grandmaster William C.C. Chen and the late Master Abraham Liu in Yang style T'ai Chi Ch'uan in the manner of Professor Cheng Man-Ching, Master Chan Ching-Kai in Yang T'ai Chi Ch'uan and Six Harmonies and Eight Methods (""Liu He Ba Fa""), Master York Why Loo in Liu He Ba Fa, the late Grandmaster Ark Yue Wong of the Southern Sil Lum Five Animal Style, the late Master and Taoist priest Share K. Lew of the Tao Tan Pai (Taoist Elixir Method) Kung Fu, and Master Douglas Wong in Sil Lum White Lotus Kung Fu. Certified in 1983, Dunn is a master instructor in the Southern Sil Lum Five Animals Kung Fu, Taoist Elixir Method, and Ehrmei Bok Fu Pai.
Master Dunn is the sole seventh generation preserver of Ehrmei Mountain Flying Phoenix Celestial Healing Qigong (""Fei Feng San Gong""), an extraordinary medical qigong art (a subsystem of Bok Fu Pai) created by Taoist sage Feng Dao Deh in 1661. He learned this qigong from Grandmaster Doo Wai from 1991 to 1997, along with rare Eight Sections of Energy Combined Kung Fu system and the 54-part 10,000 Buddhas Ascend to Heaven Qigong System.
Dr. Norm Shealy, inventor, is also author of dozens of books and hundreds of articles
Dr. Norm Shealy, inventor, is also author of dozens of books and hundreds of articles
Official WTCQD Online Qigong Summit Presenters - Fall 2020 Summit
Dr. Norm Shealy- Inventor and author of dozens of books and hundreds of articles
- Biography ...
- C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D., D. Sc., FACS, DABNS is President of Holos Energy Medicine Education. He created the concept of Holistic Medicine in 1971 with the introduction of spinal cord stimulation and TENS.
He was founding President of the American Holistic Medical Association in 1978. He has 14 patents in Energy Medicine, has published 36 books and over 350 articles. Dr. Shealy’s innovations include Electroacupuncure, Spinal Cord Stimulation, Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS), the RejuvaMatrix ® for rejuvenating telomeres, and Transcutaneous Acupuncture, which also rejuvenates telomeres; chakra sweep Gamma PEMF for stress reduction and opioid addiction, sapphire enhanced Scalar for remarkable biochemical reduction in stress, and Biogenics retraining of the nervous system.
His clinical work includes comprehensive holistic management of pain, depression, anxiety, and chronic disease His latest book is CONVERSATIONS WITH G: A physician’s encounter with heaven.
Sifu Violet Li is an award winning Tai Chi author/writer of countless articles on Internal Arts
Sifu Violet Li is an award winning Tai Chi writer and columnist
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Sifu Violet Li- Award winning Tai Chi writer/columnist
- Biography ...
- Master Violet Li is the founder of St. Louis Tai Chi & Qigong for Health and 12th Generation Chen Inheritor and a disciple of Grandmaster Chen Zhenglei. She is also the publisher of VioletLiTaiChi.com, one of the top ten Tai Chi sites with readership from 45 countries.
She is a certified Tai Chi Instructor and also known as a teachers’ teacher, founder of “Free Daily Online Tai Chi & Qigong Lessons with Violet & Friends” with tens of thousands of views, a columnist of Chinese Wushu, the most prominent Chinese Martial Arts magazine, as well as a contributor of Kung Fu Tai Chi Magazine, the largest English magazine in the field.
She was named “Best Reporter” honored by the “World Congress of Tai Chi, Qigong & TCM” and “Tai Chi Gala”. She has written more than 600 articles mostly in English and some in Chinese to bring the awareness of Tai Chi/Qigong to the world.
Sifu Chris Shelton's Qigong education work has helped thousands worldwide
Sifu Chris Shelton's Qigong education work has helped thousands worldwide
Official WTCQD Online Qigong Summit Presenters - Fall 2020 Summit
Sifu Chris Shelton- Creator of a Qigong program that has helped thousands
- Biography ...
- Chris Shelton is a certified practitioner and teacher with 19 years of clinical experience in Qigong. He’s helped thousands of people across the United States and around the world reclaim their health and enjoy lives free from chronic pain.
Chris has worked with Special Olympics teams, professional martial artists, weight lifters and celebrities looking for deeper meaning in their lives. Chris’ belief in the healing powers of Qigong is rooted in first-hand experience.
As a teenager he suffered from a devastating back injury that left him in constant pain and partially paralyzed. He attributes his full recovery to Qigong, a holistic approach perfect for people who want non-invasive, affordable and empowering healthcare.
Chris’ work has appeared in newspapers and magazines and been featured on radio and television. He is founder of Morning Crane Healing Arts Center in San Jose, California, and the author of Qigong for Self-Refinement and the award winning Youtube series 30 Days Qigong for Better Health.
Sifu Kai Van Bodhi, with a master's degree in Oriental Medicine, is a pioneer in the field of Holistic Medicine integrating both Ancient Alchemy and Modern Neuroscience
Sifu Kai Van Bodhi, with a master's degree in Oriental Medicine, is a pioneer in the field of Holistic Medicine integrating both Ancient Alchemy and Modern Neuroscience
Official WTCQD Online Qigong Summit Presenters - Fall 2020 Summit
Sifu Kai Van Bodhi, - with a master's degree in Oriental Medicine, is a pioneer in the field of Holistic Medicine integrating both Ancient Alchemy and Modern Neuroscience
- Biography ...
- Kai Van Bodhi is a pioneer in the field of Holistic Medicine integrating both Ancient Alchemy and Modern Neuroscience into a complete and accessible pathway to unlocking human potential. Holding a masters degree in Oriental Medicine he is an artful teacher of meditation, taichi, qigong and mind-body exercise.
After spending 15 years studying with Masters in the far east, learning the language and becoming and insider in traditions often unaccessible to western students, Kai has been transmitting these ancient technologies infused with modern science to thousands of people in live events, group coaching programs and one-to-one mentorships.
Along the way, he has discovered the powerful synergy of Ancient Daoist Alchemy and Modern ""Biohacking"" Neuroscience realizing that these ancient alchemists where the earliest biohackers.
He works with high achieving entrepreneurs, leaders and visionary game changers to incorporate micro-doses of these effective practices into their busy lives for more fulfillment, flow and success on all levels.
Kai’s journey started young when through the loss of close family members he was driven to dive deep into the realm of alternative medicine and healing. These events which form the core of his love for his patients, clients and students, continues to infuse his work with a sense of family.
In the modern era with peoples levels of overwhelm on the rise, Kai has found unique ways to incorporate these ancient yet modern practices into bite size chunks that anyone can apply right away for huge dividend in performance, peace of mind and clean energy to carry them through their days.
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...participants observed a "big increase in breathing capacity", a disappearance of backaches and neckaches, those with high blood pressure claimed a drop of 10 to 15 mm Hg systolic at rest, and all participants claimed to have more energy in their daily work.
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