Recommended Instructor Directory

Alison Jayne

Alison has been an instructor since January 2016 and she considers teaching Tai Chi and Qigong her life’s passion and purpose. She has been practicing through direct transmission since 2007. She teaches: Yang Style 37 Posture Short Form-Cheng Men Ching lineage; Imperial Style Tai Chi (IYTC) The Old 6 Roads-Master Wei Shuren lineage; Satori Method Flow-Form Qigong Certified; Satori Method Good Morning-Good Evening Qigong Certified; Spinal Qigong; The 8 Brocades Medical Qigong; Heaven and Earth Qigong-through-Bruce Frantzis (Kumar); 69 Posture Imperial Yang Sword Form-John Fung

Astrid Andreescu

Dr. Astrid Andreescu is a certified Satori Qigong Instructor and retired medical doctor with a deep passion for sharing the life-changing benefits of Qigong. After personally overcoming chronic pain, low immunity, and anxiety through daily practice, she now helps others do the same. Astrid specializes in simple, effective routines—including her signature Five Minute Stress Relief sequence for busy professionals—and offers practical guidance to make Qigong enjoyable, accessible, and stress-free. (offering online classes and courses)

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.)

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.

Emilie Janiaud

As a certified Flow Form instructor, Emilie offers group and individual classes online & in person (Brussels/Belgium). The way she perceives life is continuously more fun and lighter, the practice of QiGong bringing more audacity, joy and laughter on the path. Her intention in her classes is to enable everyone to regain their autonomy and sovereignty over their health, so they can reconnect with the joy of being alive. 

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.

Jo O’Reilly

Jo is a Qualified Chef, Functional Nutrition Health & Wellness Coach & Certified Qigong Instructor. Her own health journey and recovery from failed back surgeries and 14 years of chronic pain lead her on the path to healing her body holistically. She revels in the body’s innate intelligence and it’s ability to heal when given the right ingredients and environment. Discovering Qigong 10 years ago was like finding the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Now teaching others that a daily practice of Qigong can help heal the body & that they too can have a healthy, vibrant and pain-free life is her passion. Contact Jo to book a class and discover what a Qigong practice can do for your health, vitality and happiness. (Jo offers private and group classes in Melbourne, as well as group and online classes via Zoom.)

Joanne Mitchell

As a Pilates teacher, Qigong practitioner, and Coach, Joanne is not just devoted to mind-body-soul vitality, but also to guiding others on their journey. Transitioning from her role as a Global IT Manager for a Fortune 500 company, she now channels her expertise into helping others reenergize, play their biggest game, and achieve fulfillment. A dedicated student of human potential, Joanne constantly seeks practical and impactful ideas for forging a brighter future for individuals, communities, and the planet. Her diverse background fuels her passion for reading, learning, speaking, travel, connection, and self-discovery. Joanne cherishes the natural world and the forces that shape us, finding joy in creating communities of like-minded individuals who strive to expand collective and individual potential.

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!