Recommended Instructor Directory

Beth Donnelly & Doug Feller

Husband & wife duo collaborate in concerts, recordings and masterclasses. Performing throughout Europe and North America, they have also produced three albums: “That’s Amore”, “My Heart is for You”, and “Lady Be Good”. Reviewed by Sari N. Kent from the CelebrityCafe.com as “…two singers who reach deep into your soul to make music that will forever live in your heart…” (now teaching their classes online to reach and serve a broader community)

Bonnie Carney

Bonnie Carney (aka: “Ms. Bonnie”) discovered Satori qigong while searching for natural ways to solve her own “mid-life burn out.” It worked! She became a qigong instructor to help other women who experience the low energy that comes with mid-life stress to feel good again. Bonnie has been in the health and wellness field for 25+ combined years as an Occupational Therapy Assistant, a Behavior Analyst and more recently, an Integrative Nutrition Health Coach. She has helped hundreds of busy women find practical ways to find life balance so they can have the energy to care for themselves and those they love. She is excited to help you find those benefits too! (offering online individual and group classes)

Carol Jaron

Carol has been serving people in the Bay Area and beyond since 1991, with her devotion to helping those with Stressed nervous systems, relational issues, Anxiety, Recovery, Eating Disorders, and unexplained symptoms.  Blending basic Qi gong skills and principles with years of therapy and energy arts offered to individuals, couples and Adolescents, she provides supportive, creative, and cutting edge mind body approaches towards ease, Loving self worth, clarity and enrichment in your life.

She enjoys her private practice as a Licensed Psychotherapist and Life Force Coach, plus a certified Hypnotherapist and Medical Intuitive. 

Christina Waggoner

Christina is passionate about her work as an Empowerment Coach and about her play in the energy arts as an instructor of Qigong. Along with her extensive Satori Method training, Christina also draws upon her skills as a Reiki Master in the Usui System of Natural Healing, and her training with the Institute for Rehabilitative Qigong & Tai Chi to help her clients tap into and build their vital life force energy. She loves teaching her clients easy-to-learn skills and powerful techniques designed to help them de-stress, heal and discover and/or deepen their life purpose. Christina also utilizes her training received through her certification as a QSCA Law of Attraction Coach and as a dually certified QEH & APH Hypnotherapist to help her clients shed negative behavior patterns and eliminate limiting beliefs. Blending her expertise in mind power with the flowing physical movements of Qigong, Christina provides her clients with an uplifting, powerful experience that strengthens their mind/body/spirt connection and leaves them feeling greater joy and fulfillment and success in everything they do! (Offering in person one to one and group sessions. Also offering global virtual sessions.)

Coby Scaccia

Coby is a Certified Satori Qigong: Flow Form Instructor with over 20 years of experience in the Health and Wellness industry as a Physical Therapist. Drawing on her skills as a Certified Life Coach, Reiki Master Teacher, and Hypnotherapy Practitioner she gives her Students and Clients a full Mind Body Spirit experience. In addition to classes and sessions locally, she also provides one on one and group classes over Skype and via online classes. Contact Coby via email for more information.

David Beagley

David has practiced and taught Energy and Martial Arts for over 30 years. He has worked extensively in health and wellness as certified Occupational Therapist. Blending his expertise of stress management, self-regulation, and mental health with Qigong and other Energy and Martial Arts, his focus is supporting and strengthening the mind, body, and heart connection. Qigong helps David connect with inner calm, confidence, joy, compassion and wonder. He loves to share this with others and support their experiences of these positive effects. (David offers virtual private and group lessons. )

Debbie McMasters

Debbie became a qigong instructor to help other people who are in pain to feel alive again. She would be delighted to help you find your sense of ease and comfort along with the many additional benefits this beautiful moving energy art form can bring to your body, mind and soul. Debbie guides with gentle movement and mindful flow to help her students achieve a greater sense of well-being and balance while increasing their physical strength and vitality so they may enjoy a vibrant life. (offering online individual and group classes)

Diana Surber

Diana loves how Qigong can be done anytime, anywhere to stay calm, relaxed and present in challenging situations.  She practices at the office, in board meetings (really!), on airplanes, in hospitals. Even visiting her elderly parents, doing it together! Her passion is blending Qigong, NeuroCoach protocols and the latest neuroscience research to help stressed out caregivers (like she was) move from overwhelm and burnout to being able to care with ease and flow and find joy in renewed family connections. (Diana offers group and individual classes virtual and in-person – mindful movement classes, individual/family coaching and business team training)

Dr Annette Greenwood

Dr Annette Greenwood is an award-winning life coach, radio presenter, author and podcast host who recently received the Woman of Heart awards Outstanding Coach and Leader award. Annette is an expert on helping women discover how to easily overcome life’s challenges and setbacks to living a life on purpose filled with great relationships, inner peace and happiness after overcoming her own journey with depression. Continually growing her area of expertise Annette believes in Age-Less Living. This is a way of living that creates a positive vision. It’s a shift in perception, a way of challenging old ideas, habits or beliefs that hold us back from living the life we want regardless of age! It’s a way of integrating mind body and Spirit with an added touch of magic and intuition that enables you to go from feeling empty to empowered.

Jayne Kraman

Jayne has worked in the health and wellness world for decades. She is a nationally board-certified Health and Wellness Coach, with an MA in Health, Arts and Sciences, certified QiGong Instructor and Life-Force Coach with the Satori MethodÔ, yoga instructor, completed training with the Functional Medicine Coaching Academy, Aviva Romm, graduate studies in Pilates, Marianne Williamson’s Miracle Minded Coaching, Licensed Massage Therapist concentrating on myofascial release, mind-body skills,  and it goes on. Aside from a lot of information and experience her passion takes the grounded shape of getting you back to your innate wisdom, assisting you to create your vision of a truly integrated, healthy life that can digest challenges and discover the potential that is uniquely YOU.

Jodie Francis

As a Wellness coach and Qigong instructor, Jodie helps adults who feel achy, tired, and generally bored with their lives to feel energized, fit and fabulous, ready to embrace each day with gusto! After a surprising personal experience where a qigong practitioner took away persistent throbbing pain in her wrist, now she’s delighted to help people tap into their own healing energy. She does this through online group classes in Qigong. She also coaches clients one-on-one, online, through a powerful program of movement, breathwork, and mindset mastery techniques that is customized to the client’s specific needs, and empowers them to manifest the life of their dreams. A wise person once said “hurt people hurt people”. Jodie believes it’s true, and as a mother of two, she’s concerned about the number of people who are hurting in this world. She believes that as she helps clients awaken their inner smile, they will feel better and treat themselves and those around them with more love & respect. It’s her small way of helping to make the world a better place for all children, including her own. So – are you ready to awaken your inner smile, and feel energized, fit and fabulous? Get in touch today!

Kay Fontana

Kay Fontana, Ed.D. helps women in emergency services and health care gain freedom from back pain without medication or surgery so they can enjoy the work and life they love. Kay served as an EMT/paramedic and volunteer firefighter for 15 years. During that time, she sustained several back injuries due to lifting patients, carrying heavy fire equipment, and getting on and off fire trucks. She had to leave her career due to chronic back pain. On her journey with severe back pain, she embarked on a framework for healing her spine which includes the beautiful energy healing art of qigong. Combining qigong with EFT and nutrition, she helps women to connect heart, mind, body, and soul so they can get their life back. Kay offers coaching, workshops, online courses, and a complimentary 30-minute Healthy Spine Breakthrough Session. 

Kim Declair

Kim loves Qigong for the graceful meditative movements that inspire and encourage the feeling of Spirit and Life Force Energy flowing through and around her body. She teaches Qigong not only as a physical modality creating strength, balance, and vitality, but also as an energy art that helps students fully integrate mind, body, and spirit. (Based in San Diego, Kim offers group, private, in-person, and virtual classes. ) On Facebook at: www.facebook.com/groups/2351202205183879

Nancy Rose

Nancy loves Qigong because of how connected in mind, body, and soul she feels, which brings her clarity, inner peace, and joy in her daily life. She teaches Qigong and integrates it with her NeuroCoaching practice because it helps her clients easily tune into their bodies, release stress, gain mental clarity, and improve their sleep and overall health. With more energy and vitality her clients achieve their life goals with much more ease and joy. (Nancy offers private and group sessions, online and in person.)