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With almost 30 years of clinical practice as a physician of acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine, Dr. Jahnke has emerged as a key spokesperson for Tai Chi (Taiji) and Qigong (Chi Kung) and is a master teacher of these arts. He has studied hundreds of forms of Qigong with master teachers and visited numerous hospitals, institutes, training centers, temples, and sacred sites in China, focusing on the cultivation of Qi (Chi).
Dr. Jahnke has presented at major conferences on advances in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) throughout the United States. He has lectured on self-healing and emerging trends in health care and medicine to numerous hospital systems and health care associations, including the HealthCare Forum; the Catholic Health Association; the American Medical Association; the National Wellness Institute, Stevens Point, Wisconsin; and the American College of Healthcare Executives, Chicago, Illinois. He is a contributing author to numerous books on health promotion methodologies for both clinical providers and health care administrators.
Dr. Jahnke’s first book. The Healer Within: The Four Essential Self-Care Methods For Creating Optimal Health, published by Harper San Francisco in 1997, delivered the Qigong and Taiji revolution to a broad and general audience in the Americas and the European community. In 2002, Roger’s second book, The Healing Promise of Qi: Creating Extraordinary Wellness Through Qigong and Tai Chi, published by Contemporary Books, a division of McGraw-Hill, distills the best and most important lessons gleaned from master Qigong teachers, with guidelines for tailoring a self-healing regimen for any age or medical condition
Dr. Jahnke’s message is simple, striking, and empowering:
The most profound medicine is produced within us, through the balance and harmony of physiology, mind, and spirit.
(Excerpt from www.americantaichi.org)
Ken Cohen is a leader in the dialogue between ancient wisdom and modern science. He was able to demonstrate extraordinary physiologic states (evidenced through EEG, body potential, and bio-electric fields) as one of 9 “exceptional healers” studied in the Menninger Clinic’s Copper Wall Project. Probably the first Qigong practitioner in the West to treat physician-referred patients, his sponsors have included the American Cancer Society, the Mayo Clinic, Health Canada, and numerous hospitals, medical schools, conferences, and cultural organizations. In 1994, Ken was chosen as keynote and sole representative of Chinese medicine at the World Congress on Energy Healing in Switzerland. His work has been featured in USA Today, Newsweek, Time, Bottom Line, and on National Public Radio. He has taught more than 40,000 students.
(Excerpt from www.qigonghealing.com)
An author and teacher of both students and other teachers for over 20 years, Mimi champions the balance of playfulness and precision as the best way forward in life, and never underestimates how sitting, breathing and conscious movement can provide the clearest and most compassionate perspective on the messy, complex and often unpredictable job of being human.
Originally from Tucson, Arizona, Mimi lived in China for over 14 years. In 2002, she co-founded Yoga Yard, Beijing’s first and leading yoga studio, which she co-directed for seven years before moving to the UK. She now lives in the British countryside, and teaches in person at London’s triyoga, and online atmovementformodernlife.com.
Mimi is a graduate of Stanford University and SOAS, University of London, where she earned a masters with distinction in 2016 in Traditions of Yoga and Meditation. She has published a number of yoga and qigong DVDs/videos with New Shoot Pictures and is represented by the literary agency, Madeleine Milburn. She published her first book, Qigong and the Tai Chi Axis in December, 2018 (Orion Spring), and her second, Xiu Yang: Self-Cultivation for a Happier, Healthier and Balanced Life (Orion Spring), in June, 2019.
( Excerpt from www.mkdeemer.com)
Bill Douglas is the Founder of World Tai Chi & Qigong Day and the 2009 Inductee into the Internal Arts Hall of Fame. Bill has expanded the use of Tai Chi into healthcare, corporate wellness, penal and drug rehabilitation, and education.
Bill is the author of the #1 best selling tai chi book “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to T’ai Chi & Qigong” (Penguin/Alpha Books, New York, 3rd edition), and is the presenter in “Anthology of T’ai Chi & Qigong: The Prescription for the Future” DVD. Bill also presented in and helped produce a Tai Chi & Qigong DVD for people with Parkinson’s Disease that has been provided to patients all across the United States through their physicians. Bill has received the “Lou Gehrig Hero Award” from the ALS Association, the “Extraordinary Service in the Field of Qigong Award” from the National Qigong Association, the “Media Excellence Award” from the World Congress on Qigong, and the “Team Leadership Award” from the National National Tai Chi Chuan Association.
Bill’s global health education work has been covered by The New York Times, Parade Magazine, Reader’s Digest, BBC World Radio, The South China Morning Post, and media worldwide. World Tai Chi & Qigong Day has been Officially Proclaimed by governors of most US states, and by senates, legislatures, and other institutions, including recognition from the World Health Organization, for being part of the UNWHO’s Movement for Health.
(Excerpt from www.americantaichi.org)