Tai Chi, Qigong, Taoist Meditation

SHARON SMITH has been practicing Qigong, Tai Chi, & other Taoist spiritual and healing arts for 37 years & teaching them for 32. Her influential teachers include Masters Mantak Chia (she was in his original class of western students in 1981), Li Junfeng, Ming Chan, and T.K. Shih. Other important teachers include Jeanette Chi, Gilles Marin, Don Ahn, Carol Anthony, and Livia Kohn as well as many other Tao masters. In 2011, she attended the Wudang Martial Arts Internal Kung Fu Academy in China.

Sharon is certified by Master Mantak Chia’s Universal Tao system as a Senior Instructor and Chi Nei Tsang Practitioner. She is also certified by the International Sheng Zhen Society to teach Sheng Zhen Gong, the work of Master Li Junfeng.

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In addition, Sharon has practiced Iyengar yoga for over 30 years and has traveled many times to China, Thailand,, the Philippines, Europe, and New Zealand to further her studies.Sharon currently teaches seminars internationally as well as regularly at the New York Open Center. Other teaching venues include Master Mantak Chia’s Tao Garden in Thailand, Omega Institute, Healing Tao University, The Learning Annex, Wainwright House, United Nations Feng Shui Club, Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, Morningside Retirement Health Services, Dorot Senior Center, Jubilee Senior Center, Healing Tao of New York, La Guardia Community College, Queens College, New York University, Adult Education Division of the New York City Board of Education, and the New York State Department of Parks & Recreation.

Taoist Meditation

Tao means “the way of nature”. Taoist Meditation is all about aligning with the maps of energy used in different systems of oriental medicine as well as merging with the universe in various ways. If we depend only on our own energy for our vitality, our life is limited.

Chi Nei Tsang

In our all too often belly-phobic culture, many of us hold our emotional tensions in the center of our bodies, affecting the functioning of our digestive organs as well as our skeletal structure. Based on ancient Taoist techniques, belly massage (Chi Nei Tsang) is one of the most effective ways of relaxing and improving our