with Claire Johnson
For four months, I meditated in a secluded Tibetan cave and on Mt. Song in China I absorbed energy and water only through the skin. Layers of what I thought was me peeled away. I saw the essence of me. I felt my inner essence the same as the essence of life, simple, beautiful, effortless, yet most elusive. When I let go of all life’s distractions nature took me over…I was my spirit—being in the bliss that is now. Join Claire Johnson, ZY Qigong teacher and healer as she shares the insights which emerged naturally from her practice, using the perfect tools we are given in this world—our body and mind.
Claire GuYu Johnson grew up in Beijing in a family of qigong, taichi and herbal medicine 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 began to travel and study with Mingtang as he taught ZY Qigong and practiced healing worldwide. In 2000, she set up America’s first ZY Qigong School in Seattle where she teaches and practices qigong healing. Claire continues to study with masters in China and Tibet including her recent month long retreat into a Tibetan Mountain cave.
Jon T Whatley, LMT, EFT-ADV, CBP
940-642-4554
awakeningbodywork@hotmail.com
Ms. Johnson was first certified by Grandmaster Mingtang Xu as a ZY Qigong instructor of in July 2000, at the Shaolin Monastery in China where she spends her summers in intensive practice. Beyond the required training for Teacher’s Certification, she has also completed the Level Three and Level Four training seminars several times and in several countries.
Claire also studies Tibetan Buddhist practices with renowned Tibetan Buddhist Scholar Duoshi Rinpoche. Her annual trips to Tibet culminated this past summer in a month long retreat into a Tibetan mountain cave.
Ms. Johnson has had a wide range of experiences that have not only helped her to understand qigong and become a qualified qigong practitioner, but which also enable her to explain qigong to people of many different walks of life. These experiences include six years of training in counseling, two years of daily yoga practice, practice of several Buddhist and Taoist styles of qigong for over five years, on-going Taichi training with different masters. She holds a B.A. in architecture and B.Sc. in Construction Management from University of Washington.
Ms.
Johnson has been teaching ZY Qigong for over five years and opened the ZY Qigong
School in Seattle in 2002.
The school offers a quarterly curriculum including beginning, intermediate and
advanced qigong as well as Tai Chi. Claire has also lead a weekly Green Tara
Tibetan meditation group for several years. In addition, she has held several
intensive weekend qigong workshops both on and off-site.
She has taught in clinic settings such as One Sky Medicine and Seattle Healing Arts. She has lectured in many public venues such as Massage Schools for continuing education, East-West Bookshop, and several times at the Body Mind Spirit Expo. She has taught at the annual 5-day Memorial Weekend Retreats we sponsor for Grandmaster Mingtang Xu.
Ms. Johnson travels several times a year to the recently founded Calgary branch of ZY Qigong in Alberta, Canada. During her visits to Calgary, she teaches workshops and routinely conducts a full schedule of qigong healing sessions. She will continue this work during her visit in the Dallas area.
Over the past 5 years, Ms. Johnson has built a burgeoning Qigong Healing practice in Seattle which draws clients from within the city and from out of state. Further, she has an expanding roster of patients in Calgary as well. Ms. Johnson has studied “Image Therapy” the healing aspect of ZY qigong for over 7 years under the personal guidance of Grandmaster Mingtang Xu.
Mingtang Xu is a world-renowned healer. Whether he is in China, Moscow, Ukraine, Germany, Spain, Switzerland or Seattle Mingtang’s healing schedule is always full and overfull. He has held “Image Therapy” workshops for doctors, acupuncturists, counselors, massage therapists and even shamanic healers. He was the keynote speaker and held an Image Therapy Workshop at this year’s International Society for the Study of Subtle Energy and Energy Medicine Conference (ISSSEEM) in Boulder, CO. He continues his global mission of healing opening his Kundawell Institute in Beijing this fall.