TEACHERS & HEALERS
UNITED STATES TEAM
Locations: Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, New York, Washington
Arizona
Mark Frighetti was born in Tucson, Arizona. His dad was
in the Air Force so he has lived in many places, including
four years in Japan where he experienced the oriental culture.
He is a certified Shiatsu practitioner and is involved
with many types of natural healing. He has incorporated Qigong
into his treatments and is amazed at the results. People have
the power within themselves to heal what ails them, it is just a
matter of learning how. When Mark met Mingtang Xu at a five-day
retreat in Seattle, he decided he wanted to learn everything
he could from Mingtang. The vast amount of knowledge Mingtang Xu
has to offer his students will keep us busy for a long time.
Mark really enjoys teaching people ZY Qigong because it is simple, yet highly effective. ZY Qigong has helped him grow to be more aware of the energy that flows through everything.
Mark teaches ZY Qigong in Tucson Arizona. Please feel free to contact him at willow5@mindspring.com.
California, San Francisco
Vadim Derevyanko teaches Level 1 in and around San Francisco, California.
To get in touch with Vadim email mrmagicvd66@aol.com.
Colorado
Joanne Wambeke, M.Ed., is a licensed professional
counselor (LPC) in Colorado. Joanne maintains a successful
private practice in Denver, providing individual counseling
services as well as workshops and seminars to help people help
themselves. In addition to practicing and teaching ZY Qigong,
Joanne practices the ancient Japanese healing art
of Jin Shin Jyutsu, and holds a certificate in sound healing.
She studies Huna, the esoteric teachings of Hawaii, shamanism,
and ancient Chinese and Japanese systems that integrate mind,
body, and spirit.
Joanne combines all of these tools to help clients and students efficiently release emotional, mental, or spiritual blocks. Releasing these blocks allows people to move forward in achieving their goals. This mind-body-spirit approach promotes healing and increases confidence, awareness, self acceptance, physical vitality, and general well being.
Joanne may be reached through her website, Colorado Healing Services, LLC (Check here for ZY Qigong events in the Denver area), or at help@coloradohealing.com or at 303-519-4205.
Florida
Marianna Sigov is a
graduate from Odessa University with a Bachelor of Arts in
Psychology. She completed Pht. Clinical Training at Ultimate
Medical Academy in Clearwater, Florida. Now she is a ZY Qigong
Instructor and teaches meditation classes. She has studied
qigong for ten years. Beyond the required training for Teacher's
Certification, she has also completed the Level Four training
seminar. Grandmaster Mingtang Xu was the most influential of the
energy healers that she studied with. Marianna has personally
experienced the benefits of complimentary medicines such as
acupuncture, image therapy, and meditation, in addition to
traditional western medicine in attaining health. She teaches
students body awareness exercises and helps others release deep
seated pain and trauma related to emotional issues. In addition,
she is also a certified instructor in Quantum Touch and is a
self-taught artist. She has traveled around the world and has
been influenced by different cultures which are reflected in her
work. Her native language is Russian and you can contact her at
727-239-6347 or through her website,
Qigong Tree.
New York
Roman Gekhman has his biography and picture at the Zhong Yuan Qigong New York website.
Washington, Seattle
Claire Guyu Johnson grew
up in Beijing in a family of taichi, herbal medicine,
acupuncture and qigong practitioners. Through her parents'
Qigong Association of America,
she met and studied with a number of masters including ZY Qigong
Grandmaster Mingtang Xu. In 1999, she traveled and studied with
Mingtang as he taught ZY Qigong and practiced healing worldwide.
In 2000, she set up America's first ZY Qigong School and Healing
Center in Seattle where she taught qigong, taichi and Tibetan
esoteric meditation, in addition to practicing qigong Image
Therapy healing. Claire continues to study with masters in China
and Tibet including month-long food and water fasting retreats
into Chinese and Tibetan Mountain caves. She currently travels
internationally, teaching qigong and Image Therapy workshops.
Please visit her blog:
On Living.
Karen
Fletcher, MPH, a cultural anthropologist who speaks
Mandarin Chinese and holds a Masters in Public Health from
UC Berkeley, began her journey in the Chinese healing in 1995
with study in tai chi, qigong and Buddhist meditation. She
is a private student of ZY Qigong Grandmaster Xu Mingtang, has
completed post graduate training with him at Shaolin Monastery
in China and traveled with him worldwide as his apprentice.
As the founding Board President of ZY Qigong, a non-profit organization, Karen is dedicated to bringing teachings, practice, wisdom and mastery of qigong to people of all ages and cultures. She is currently an apprentice of Dr. Zhao Fuxue, one of China's 85 top-level certified Chinese Medicine doctors specializing in Chinese medical massage, acupressure, tuina, and his lineage's "Dian Xue" technique. She also served as Dr. Zhao's interpreter while he taught and saw clients in the U.S. She offers treatments and private qigong consultation for insomnia, depression, and weight loss under Dr. Zhao's guidance.
In addition, Karen is an international dancer, a certified instructor in Conscious Language™, a trained facilitator of Bio-Optic Holography and serves on the council of both the Women of Wisdom Foundation and Walking Mountain, a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing our movement arts and play back to the natural world. She is also the innovator of Qi Dancing. As an "intergrationalist", Karen brings depth, breadth, wisdom and always an element of fun to her teachings and healing work. For more information or to schedule an appointment or private session, contact Karen at karen.dancingqi@gmail.com or visit her website.
Note: Karen is studying with Dr. Zhao now in Zhengzhou, China and has started a blog with regular updates on her learnings and adventures with Dr. Zhao, his family and friends. See Karen's blog.
Jean Clough has been studying Qi Gong since 2000,
training with Grand Master Mingtang Xu and with Claire Johnson
of the ZY Qi Gong lineage. Concurrently, she is studying Taoist
Medicine, Tui Na and Qi Gong with Dr. Liu Dong of Ling Gui Qi
Gong School. A Level One ZY Qi Gong instructor since 2005,
Jean has developed and led several "Hiking Qi Gong" classes
combining Qi Gong practice with trail hiking in the forests
and mountains outside of Seattle. She owns and runs Seattle Advanced
Bodywork Associates, a twelve-person massage, acupuncture
and energy work clinic, where she has a busy massage practice
herself. Jean is also a Reiki Master and a Certified Wilderness
Leader through the Wilderness Education Association.
Jean says, "I am much inspired by the power and healing available through Qi Gong training. Gaining expertise with your own body's language is an amazing journey, but not magic. If we listen we can tune in to what is needed. I hope to be like a music appreciation teacher who helps students hear what was always there: the harmonies and discordance in our own bodies. With practice students bring body and mind into harmony, which is to say wellness, with self and the universe."
Baiss is a Shaolin trained and certified instructor and has studied and taught hatha yoga, sufism and more recently qigong, for over thirty years.
To contact me, email baissm@gmail.com. Mr. Magnusson is a retired mathematician/software developer, you can read about Baiss at Cascade Web Design.
Ekaterina (Kate) Bespyatova teaches Level 1 ZY Qigong in Seattle, Washington.
Kate has been a ZYQ practitioner since 2000, a personal student of Grandmaster Xu Mingtang, and a certified image therapist.
She graduated from Moscow State University of Management, but soon after - due to family circumstances - moved to Japan, where she spent 7 years of her life.
Kate has also lived in Australia and Canada before moving to the U.S. Kate has participated at Shaolin Intensives twice, and has completed a two-month
image medicine course at Kundawell Institute in Beijing. She has also studied qigong TuiNa with Dr. Liu Dong of Ling Gui Healing Qigong School, and is a
Reiki Master. Kate says: "Since I was a child, I have always felt there is a mystery in our world, something that can’t be seen with our eyes, but can be
experienced and explored. I was a vegetarian and practiced yoga at age 11, but never ever thought of being a healer. ZYQ helped me to realize my potential,
and now I feel that I not only wish, but have ability to assist people in improving their health and quality of life".
You can contact Kate at her email address.
CANADA
Toronto
Valentino teaches ZY Qigong in Toronto, Canada. He can be found at http://zychigong.com/
Other practitioners have their biographies and pictures at the Zhong Yuan Qigong Association of Canada website.
GERMANY
Petra Groschupf is a powerful qigong practitioner,
teacher, healer and artist. Her healing work began in 1987,
with the study of an old yoga system from Patanjali, India. From
there, she dove into shamanic healing, Kinesiology, EmoTrance,
crystal healing, and the ancient healing system of qigong.
In 2004, Petra met ZY Qigong Grandmaster Xu Mingtang and
in 2005 she was initiated as one of Mingtang’s private students.
In 2006 she became a certified ZY Qigong Level 1 teacher.
In the past 15 years, Petra has realized one of her biggest desires of being a painter. Her artwork naturally draws from all aspects of her life's personal, spiritual and vocational developments. The paintings are the visions Petra receives in her meditations. She says: "They emanate the brilliant flow of our vitality, our life energy, and can be used to strengthen any person or place's own vitality and flow. Simply hang a painting where you desire to strengthen this life force. My desire is for the great Harmony, Vitality and Peace illuminated in these paintings to flow into and emanate from our Souls."
Petra's paitings are available at Flowing Power (15% of all proceeds of the paintings will be donated to ZY Qigong non-profit). Email Petra at shop@flowingpower.com.
Joachim Stuhlmacher has been living almost twenty years
with the eastern ways of life like Qigong, Taijiquan and Daoism.
He is trained in traditional chinese medicine and a certified
teacher for Level I ZY Qigong. He is also a diploma
Qigong teacher and leads courses in Chen-style Taiji.
Visit Joachim's website to see a little overview of his work, check dates of upcoming courses that he is going to offer, and read articles that he recently published.