Livia Kohn is an emeritus professor of Religion and East Asian Studies at Boston University, specializing in studies of Daoism. She graduated from Bonn University, Germany, in 1980. She then spent six years at Kyoto University in Japan, before she joined Boston University as Professor of Religion and East Asian Studies in 1988.  She is a long term practitioner of Taiji qua and medittiaton. Her specialty is the study of the Daoism and Chinese long life practices. She has written and edited 35 books and over 100 articles.

She retired from active teaching in 2006 but continues to write books, serves as the executive editor of the Journal of Daoist Studies, and manages Three Pines Press, the Western voice of Daoism . She leads Daoist qigong and Core Health workshops worldwide, and is the lead organizer of a series of major international conferences on Daoism: 

In this episode we discuss

• Her background in Daoism
• History of Daoyin, Tai Chi and Qigong
• The Shaolin temple
• Buddhist influences on Daoism
• Western Somatics and Chinese healing practices

   Three Pines Press link https://threepinespress.com

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