SPEAKERS
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
“I was born a healer, and so were you!” – Chunyi Lin
A leader in Qigong for wellness, a trainer for many Qigong Masters.
- Master Chunyi Lin is the founder and creator of Spring Forest Qigong. Since 1995, his personal-study Qigong programs have positively transformed the lives of over 750,000 students, while his Qigong Teacher/Healer Certification programs have trained more than 400 Qigong professionals.
- Chunyi is a media favorite, with network TV interviews by KNBC, Fox 9, and KMSP. He has also been interviewed and featured in the New York Times, the Star Tribune, and Pioneer.
- He is a healer and wellness coach for thousands of private clients, including TV/film celebrities and professional athletes and sport teams in the US.
- He is also the author of multiple Amazon best-selling books, including Born a Healer, Head to Toe Healing: Your Body’s Repair Manual, and Head to Heart.
- He is the director of the Spring Forest Qigong Healing Center in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, overseeing more than 9,000 healing appointments annually.
- He also leads multiple advanced Qigong retreats each year, all designed to help people discover their highest potential.
Conference Speakers
Hon Lee, Qigong Master
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Hon is a Spring Forest Qigong Certified Instructor and Qigong Master. He is also a Doctor of Medical Qigong and a Doctor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine.
Hon owns the Sports Edge Acupuncture Clinic in Virginia, cofounded the Jow Ga Shaolin Institute, and is an adjunct professor at the Virginia University of Integrative Medicine.
Of all the healing modalities he’s studied, he believes Spring Forest Qigong is the most powerful and hopes to introduce more people to this unique healing system to help them achieve optimal physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health.
Munira Jiwa, Qigong Master
Contact: munira@munirajiwa.ca
Website: www.MuniraJiwa.ca
Spring Forest Qigong Master and “Spreader of Qi~Joy” living in beautiful Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Munira experienced a profound healing transformation from chronic neck and back pain, low energy, and chronic bouts of bronchitis after being introduced to SFQ nearly 18 years ago.
Coupled with her training and experience as a Physical Therapist and as a Feng Shui Practitioner, she is passionate about empowering others through instructing and sharing the practice.
Munira is a sought-after speaker and educator in Calgary’s Health and Wellness community.
Munira offers in-person as well as online workshops and coaching sessions. More information on her offerings can be found at www.MuniraJiwa.ca
Jerry Wellik, Qigong Master
Jerry Wellik has been a student of Spring Forest Qigong and Master Chunyi Lin since 2000.
He has been a teacher his entire professional life. He has taught at the pre-school, elementary, secondary and college levels.
Jerry’s primary interests revolve around storytelling/listening, poetry, the arts and developing and developing programs for students with neuro-diversities.
Misa Tsuyoshi, Certified Qigong Instructor
Contact:
simplewellnessfacilitator@gmail.com
Misa has been a student of Qigong Grand Master Chunyi Lin and Spring Forest Qigong since her recovery from cancer in 2013. She is a certified SFQ Instructor, Trainer, Healer, and Practice Group Leader. She loves to actively teach SFQ Level 1, 2, and 3 classes because this Qigong has changed her lifestyle, her perceptions, and her relationships, helping her to live a very blessed life.
Misa was recognized by Spring Forest Qigong as “Certified Qigong Trainer of The Year” in 2018 and “Teacher of The Year” in 2019.
She is one of the co-authors of Natural & Organic Healing: The Ultimate Guide to Healing & Wellness 2019, which became a worldwide Amazon #1 Best Seller New Release. In June and October of 2019, the Watertown Public TV program Pathways with Penny invited Misa to talk about Spring Forest Qigong.
Misa is also a certified Tai Chi instructor, a certified AFAA Personal Trainer, and meditation facilitator. She is also a member of the Energy Medicine Professional Association.
Sue Crites, Certified Qigong Instructor
Contact: sue@suecrites.ca
Website: www.suecrites.ca
Sue Crites, M.Sc. (Forest Ecology), NCP is a Spring Forest Qigong Instructor and Master Healer living outside of Athabasca, AB, Canada.
Sue teaches Levels 1, 2, and 3 and created a global online qigong community, Energy in Motion, in 2018. She is passionate about empowering others to create a life that gives them meaning. She deeply believes that true wellness encompasses not only physical, emotional, and spiritual health but also fulfilment of one’s life purpose and a connection to natural elements.
Sue experienced profound healing from chronic hip & joint pain, sinus congestion, anxiety, depression, and worry.
Sue’s passion is helping women (and a few men) all over the world slow down and tune in to their own spirit so they can live healthy, fulfilling, and inspired lives. Sue leads workshops, retreats (Alberta, Yukon, and Mexico), and teaches classes both online, in-person.
You can learn more by visiting her website, suecrites.ca.
Terry Leers, Certified Qigong Trainer
Terry, Certified Practice Group Leader and Certified Trainer, has been a “Love Radiator” and an ardent supporter of Spring Forest Qigong since 2014, when he first discovered SFQ and the unlimited power of Qi.
He was awarded Certified Trainer of the Year Award in 2018, has led Qi-Breaks at other annual SFQ Master of Qi Conferences, presented SFQ Qi Talk and Heart Wisdom Talks in 2021, and received the Courageous Teacher Achievement Award in 2021 (in addition to being an occasional Practice Leader on SFQ’s Facebook Live practice sessions.
Terry’s approach to Spring Forest Qigong is infused with fun, innovation, and “Unconditional Love.” Terry offers three weekly practice sessions on Zoom and online SFQ Level One: Qi Activation courses.
He can be reached by email at terryleers.sfq@gmail.com or via his website, www.terryleers.com
Richard Babboni. Certified Qigong Trainer
Contact: richard@qienergycoach.com
Website: www.qienergycoach.com
Richard has been studying and practicing Qigong and Tai Chi for more than 20 years, both in the USA and in Italy. He is an accomplished business leader, who has an undergraduate engineering degree, an international MBA, and over 25 years of executive leadership experience.
Richard first discovered Qigong Master Chunyi Lin’s teachings when he read Born a Healer more than 15 years ago, and has been actively practicing Spring Forest Qigong since purchasing the Level One home study course in the summer of 2018. He became a Spring Forest Qigong Certified Practice Group Leader in January 2019 and a Certified Trainer in April of 2020.
Since 2020, Richard has been leading a free weekly online Five Elements Healing movements practice group. He also teaches SFQ’s Level One: Qi Activation certification class on a regular basis.
You can learn more about Richard’s upcoming classes by visiting www.qienergycoach.com
Nancy Havera, Certified Qigong Trainer
Contact: nhavera@yahoo.com
Nancy Havera has been a Spring Forest Qigong practitioner since 2007. Teaching, growing, and sharing are part of Nancy’s soul purpose. Nancy is a retired Spanish teacher with an ongoing love for continued work in any classroom. This goal is supported by the recent completion and launch of the handbook Qigong Round the World: Being, Becoming, Belonging, Qi-full Perspectives for Children, created in collaboration with Siu-Ling Bisogno Hau and Master Jerry Wellik.
Nancy and her husband live on a farm in central Illinois, where they have planted almost 100,000 trees to help restore the land and provide habitat for wildlife. Bringing Spring Forest Qigong into this setting has greatly enriched the Qi Field of all life forms in the region.
Siu-ling Bisogno Hau, Certified Qigong Healer
Contact: Siulingbisogno@yahoo.com
Website: www.qiflow.org
Siuling Bisogno Hau’s journey with Spring Forest Qigong began in 2017. Inspired by her own healing and transformation, she studied and trained to become a Certified Practice Group Leader, Trainer and Healer. Refinement is something she continues to explore through her Qigong Journey. Siuling is a holistic counsellor and coach, and combines her arts background with her healing practice.
Teaching, service , and supporting people’s learning are at the center of Siuling’s passion and purpose. Siuling is involved in the early childhood education sector, and has shared Spring Forest Qigong in early childhood settings along with mindfulness and kindness curriculums that support social and emotional development.
In collaboration with Certified Healer and Trainer Nancy Havera and Master Jerry Wellik, Siuling created a book inspired by Qigong Round the World: Being, Becoming, Belonging, Qi-full Perspectives for Children. She also collaborates on Nancy’s FB page, “Kids of All Ages Practice Qi-full Perspectives of Spring Forest Qigong,” which shares lessons for children and is currently developing wellbeing workshops for educators. She has also participated in community art projects since 2020 with the purpose of creating joy in the community, and delights in making teaching props and educational resources for educators and children.
Siuling and her husband live in the Fleurieu Peninsula of South Australia, Kaurna Land. They live amongst ochre hills by the beautiful ocean.
For more information, you can visit:
https://www.springforestqigong.com/by-teacher/certified-healer-siu-ling-bisogno-hau
https://www.facebook.com/soundhealingmovement
https://www.facebook.com/groups/sfqqiflow
Yvette Falconer, Certified Practice Group Leader
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Yvette Falconer is a Legacy SFQ Instructor, Master Healer and Level 5
practitioner.
Yvette’s passion is to empower others to discover their innate healing abilities and to find more peace, love, joy and vitality in their lives
through simple Qigong exercises and the practice of love in action towards self and others.
She shares this passion with her community through teaching, leading 4 practice groups/week, and providing individual energy healing treatments employing Qigong and Qi~ssage.
Yvette has been a contractor for Wellspring Calgary for 10 years, a Centre that provides free programs to cancer
patients and their families. Yvette’s joyful inspiration comes from her practice,
her family, her students, her community and her continued study of the Nature of the Universe.
Emily Jarrett Hughes, Certified Qigong Healer
Contact: emily@wisdomdances.com
Website: www.wisdomdances.com
My name is Emily Jarrett Hughes and I am a healer, teacher, dancer, and mother living in Minneapolis. The vitality and joy I have found in Spring Forest Qigong were a lifeline through a major health crisis and are the inspiration for my teaching and healing practice.
I have studied Spring Forest Qigong since 2006, graduating through Level 5, and am a Certified Healer and Certified Trainer. I lead a weekly drop-in Qigong practice group. I also teach dance as a tool for healing and transformation.
Everything that I do leans into the interrelationship between healing ourselves, healing the water, and healing the world. I have taught hundreds of classes and helped hundreds of people with healing. I love seeing my students and clients strengthen their connection with body, mind, and spirit and unlock their capacity to live vibrant, courageous lives.
Follow my blog at www.wisdomdances.com
Sarah Adams Marr Dumas, Certified Qigong Trainer
Website: www.marrvelouslife.com
“I have learned first-hand that with unconditional love you can heal your emotions, body, mind, spirit and soul.”
Sarah Adams Marr Dumas is passionate about supporting and sharing Master Lin’s mission: “A healer in every home and a world without pain and suffering.” She is a Certified Practice Group Leader and a Certified Trainer.
Sarah found Spring Forest Qigong in 2005 while suffering from a severe nervous breakdown, suicidal depression, and panic attacks.
“Using the Spring Forest Qigong Level One DVD practice and meditation, I was able to balance my emotions and feel joy and love again. SFQ is a very powerful part of my life’s journey.”
“I am so excited to share the Qi-love through my SFQ online practice group, Marrvelous Qi-Circle, and SFQ classes. I look forward to meeting and hearing more about your SFQ journey.”
Sarah loves to support others in experiencing the wonderful Qi-love goodness. She loves the outdoors, is passionate about organic gardening, walking on the beach with her husband, bird watching, and spending time with her wonderful large and growing family.
Visit www.marrvelouslife.com for a link to Sarah’s practice group, classes, and for more information about her.
Roxy Wright, Certified Qigong Healer
Contact: roxy@heartshavenranch.ca
Website: www.roxywright.com
Roxy is a Certified Spring Forest Qigong Trainer, Healer and Practice Group Leader. Her clients are appreciative of the releases and balances they receive as they hone their Spring Forest Qigong skills under Roxy’s guidance.
Roxy also has an extensive background in facilitating internal balance and healing in individuals and families in her life long career as a Foster and Adoptive Parent.
You can learn more about Roxy at her website: www.roxywright.com
Steffi Black, Certified Practice Group Leader
Contact:
steffi@steffiblackcoaching.com
I am a coach, mindfulness guide, and Spring Forest Qigong Practice Group Leader. I work with one-on-one coaching and Qigong online classes. I also present on Self-Healing and Daily Rituals for Mental Wellness, and I feel it is an honor to remind others of their innate wisdom and encourage others to follow a more peaceful path with the incredible knowledge of Spring Forest Qigong.
Hector Campero, Certified Qigong Healer
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Héctor Campero brings together the disciplines of psychology, meditation, and Spring Forest Qigong in his work, conducting emotional block clearing sessions for individuals and also for groups. He is licensed as a psychologist by the Universidad Intercontinental in México City, and he is also certified as a Siddha Yoga meditation teacher and a Spring Forest Qigong healer.
Héctor spent twelve years in spiritual practice at Siddha Yoga retreat sites in the U.S. and India, and he practiced qigong for another fifteen years. He was then invited to spend two months working directly with Master Chunyi Lin to develop the methods presented in his upcoming book to release emotional imprints and restore wellbeing using Spring Forest Qigong healing meditation.
Héctor Campero offers sessions, courses, and workshops—both in person and online—to people all over the world.
Susan Churchill, Certified Qigong Trainer
Contact:
Thechurchillfamily@hotmail.com
Susan Churchill is a SFQ Certified Trainer and Certified Practice Group Leader who loves to work with any and everyone to help them discover (or rediscover) themselves, their purpose and how to live a joyous, vital life.
Discovering Spring Forest Qigong early in the pandemic, she quickly realized that Master Chunyi Lin’s mission of “A healer in every home and a world without pain and suffering” totally resonated with her.
Originally looking for a way to reduce anxiety and increase immunity for herself and her family, Susan soon discovered that she had just opened the door to a new and purposeful life for herself.
After her first 30-minute practice session with Master Lin on SFQ Everyday, her anxiety released, and hope reemerged.
Master Lin, through his presence and wisdom, showed her that even in the most challenging times, happiness, joy, peace, contentment, and gratitude can be experienced.
Susan started to heal in ways she didn’t expect. She was able to release chronic
conditions of Restless Leg Syndrome, shoulder pain, and even got the range of
motion back in her arms. Her emotions came into balance and her busy mind
calmed down. She was hooked! Needing to learn everything she could about the SFQ Qigong practice and what made it work, she completed Levels 1 through 4, became a Certified Practice Group Leader, and in 2022, became a Certified
Trainer.
She is now co-teaching Qi Activation classes with Jo Anne Brown, CT, has three
SFQ Practice Groups online, is leading SFQ practices at a Lemon’s of Love cancer
support center, co-leads grief-release classes with her dear friend and Energy
Healer, Tamara K., and plans to begin teaching SFQ practice groups through her local Community College’s Community Education Program.
Nadia Ketoure, Certified Practice Group Leader
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Nadia Ketoure, born Nadia El Hafdhi and the daughter of Tunisian diplomats, is a Tunisian immigrant who was born in Algeria in 1976, spent her childhood in Switzerland, her teenage years in Tunisia, and her young adult life in Canada, where she learned to speak English. Canada is also where she first made the connection between her new diet and her physical and emotional health. Nadia lives in Brooklyn, NYC with her three beautiful kids, who are mixed Haitian and of school age.
Her interest in complete health and her search for solutions to her son’s eczema brought her to SFQ. She learned energy healing and helped her son to completely heal.
Nadia shares the practice of SFQ as an invaluable resource for parents/caregivers.
Morning Qigong Leaders
Munira Jiwa, Qigong Master
Spring Forest Qigong Master and “Spreader of Qi~Joy” living in beautiful Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Munira experienced a profound healing transformation from chronic neck and back pain, low energy, and chronic bouts of bronchitis after being introduced to SFQ nearly 18 years ago.
Coupled with her training and experience as a Physical Therapist and as a Feng Shui Practitioner, she is passionate about empowering others through instructing and sharing the practice.
Munira is a sought-after speaker and educator in Calgary’s Health and Wellness community.
Munira offers in-person as well as online workshops and coaching sessions. More information on her offerings can be found at www.MuniraJiwa.ca
Richard Babboni, Certified Qigong Trainer
Richard has been studying and practicing Qigong and Tai Chi for more than 20 years, both in the USA and in Italy. He is an accomplished business leader, with an international MBA and over 25 years of executive leadership experience.
Richard first discovered Qigong Master Chunyi Lin’s teachings when he read Born a Healer more than 15 years ago, and has been actively practicing Spring Forest Qigong since purchasing the Level One home study course in the summer of 2018. He became a Spring Forest Qigong Certified Practice Group Leader in January 2019 and a Certified Trainer in April of 2020.
Since 2020, Richard has been leading a free weekly online Five Elements Healing movements practice group. He also teaches SFQ’s Level One: Qi Activation certification class on a regular basis.
You can learn more about Richard’s upcoming classes by visiting www.qienergycoach.com
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Katrina Tobey, Qigong Master
Qigong Master Katrina Tobey has a lifelong career emphasis on creating and developing innovative community-based healing programs, especially with under served and vulnerable people. Examples of her advocacy and development work include programs for young people at risk for suicide and other violence; community advocacy programs addressing domestic violence; treatment program for persons convicted of sexual crimes; community support programs to facilitate mothers suffering from addictions to have access to treatment opportunities for themselves and their children; advocacy for victims of sexual assault. She believes that education is the key to safer and healthier families and communities. She is a valued presenter in community forums, higher education, as a clinical supervisor for other therapists, and with Spring Forest Qigong.
Since 2005, Master Lin’s vision “A Healer in Every Family and A World Without Pain and Suffering” is also her purpose in life. She has been active in helping create Spring Forest teaching programs since 2007. In 2015, she was granted the title of Qigong Master by Master Lin, the highest award honoring a Spring Forest Qigong practitioner. She is also a Master Teacher and Healer, and as a faculty member of Energy Healing International, she is responsible for co-developing and teaching curriculum for Energy Healing International’s certification programs.
The teachings of Spring Forest Qigong are the foundation by which she lives her life as a Psychologist, a Family Therapist and in all her Mothering roles! Everyday she is eternally grateful to Master Lin and the Spring Forest community for healing the world!
Jaci Gran, Qigong Master
Qigong Master Jacqueline Gran has been passionate about energy and the energy transformation and art for as long as she can remember. She has been practicing and studying Spring Forest Qigong since 1999.
At the Spring Forest Qigong Healing Center, Jaci oversees our Initial Appointments, offers Qigong and Qi~ssage healing appointments. She is one of Spring Forest Qigong Masters leading regularly scheduled Healing Circles with Qigong Healing Movements.Jaci is continually called upon to speak about the power of qigong in everyday living and illness recovery to local groups, and conferences throughout the world.
My passion is to help people explore who they are with Spring Forest Qigong so they can peel back the layers to discover their creativity, their unbounded love of life.”
In 2015, Jaci Gran was awarded Spring Forest Qigong Master by Master Chunyi Lin, the highest award honoring an Qigong Practitioner.
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