IN HONOR OF MY TEACHERS
I am deeply grateful to all of my teachers for their patience, generosity, and skillfulness in guiding me along the path of self-cultivation.
Below is a list of my most influential teachers, what I studied with them, and where.
Susan Carroll (USA) – Self-inquiry (foundations of radical honesty), somatic meditation, self-healing, mind-focus training, dream yoga
Master Zhongxian Wu (China / USA) – Shamanic Internal Alchemy, EMei Shaking, Wu Xing (Five Elements) Qigong, Lau Hu (Shamanic Tiger) Qigong, Wu Long (Five Dragons) Qigong, 28 Lunar Mansions Qigong, Wudang He Zhao Bao Taiji Chuan, Cha Dao (The Way of Tea), Dai Family Xinyi, Yijing Divination, Chinese brush calligraphy and brush healing, Immortal Sword, Daoist mudra and manta, qi healing, self-healing applications of Classical Chinese Medicine
Liu Ming (USA) – Daoist zuowang and standing meditation, Santi Nei Gong, 24 Jie Qi (seasonal energy patterns) and dietary studies, Daoist self-healing practices and principles of internal alchemy, Daoist cosmology, Zi Wei (Pole Star) Chinese Astrology, and Classical Chinese Medicine theory
Jeffrey C. Yuen (USA) - Applied principles of Daoism and Classical Chinese Medicine, Yang Sheng (nourishing life methods), Five Animal Frolics
Dr. Yogi Vikashananda (Nepal) – Meditation, shat karma (yogic cleansing techniques), shaking medicine, Tantric Yoga, pranayama, ayurvedic applications of yoga for self-healing, and study of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras.
Sensei Mike Noriega (San Gabriel Japanese Cultural Center, USA) – Judo, meditation, traditional Japanese etiquette
Drupon Khenpo Lodro Namgyal (Nepal) – Vajrayana Buddhism, Seven Points of Mind Training, pointing out instruction, meditation
Baba Hari Das (USA) – Yoga (Hatha, Bhakti, Jnana, Karma), meditation, pranayama, shat karma
Dr. Lori Kimata (USA) – Principles of Naturopathic Medicine, cooking and healing with whole foods
Pauli Zink (USA) – Daoist Yoga
Yogi Das (USA) – shamanic-animistic yoga, pranayama, meditation, Tantra
Dr. Palden Carson (USA) – Master Tung's Orthodox Acupuncture, qigong, meditation
Dao Shi Nam Singh (USA) – Cooking with Chinese herbs, food as medicine within the model of Classical Chinese Medicine
Banamber Baba (India) – Tantric Yoga, meditation, pranayama, chakravedana (the science of opening the chakras), divination
Liu Shan (Ecuador) – Chinese Medicine for self-healing, Qigong for joint health, cooking and nutrition for self-healing
Sun Yogi Umashankar (India) – Sun Yoga
Sifu James McNeil (USA) – Foundations of Shih Shui (brain and bone marrow washing), Daoist sexual cultivation, seated and standing meditation
Adi Singh (USA) – Kundalini Yoga
Ramkogea (Colombia) – Qigong, Daoist food therapy, principles of Daoist sexual cultivation
Gerow Reece (USA) – Japanese Tea Ceremony (Dainippon Chado Gakki)
Hildy Bernstein (USA) - Japanese Tea Ceremony (Urasenke), aesthetics and painting
Mantak Chia (Thailand) – Chi Nei Tsang (INternal Organ Massage), Elixer Qigong, Dao Yin, meditation
Sat Jivan Singh (USA) – Kundalini Yoga
Kazuaki Tanahashi (USA) – Zen Calligraphy, Zen meditation