Steve Bhaerman, who is better known as Swami Beyondananda, is an internationally known author, humorist, and workshop leader. For the past 23 years, he has written and performed as Swami Beyondananda, the "Cosmic Comic." Swami's comedy has been called "irreverently uplifting" and has been described both as "comedy disguised as wisdom" and "wisdom disguised as comedy."

As the Swami, Steve is the author of Driving Your Own Karma (1989), When You See a Sacred Cow, Milk It For All It's Worth (1993), Duck Soup for the Soul (1999) and Swami for Precedent: A 7-Step Plan to Heal the Body Politic and Cure Electile Dysfunction (2004).

In his "past life" (before Swami), Steve started an alternative high school in Washington, D.C. and co-authored a book about his experiences, No Particular Place to Go: Making of a Free High School. A political science major, he later taught history to autoworkers at Wayne State University in Detroit as part of the Weekend College. In 1980, Steve co-founded Pathways Magazine in Ann Arbor, Michigan, one of the first publications bringing together holistic health, personal growth, spirituality, and politics. Subsequent to Pathways, Steve was a freelance writer and co-author with Don McMillan of Friends and Lovers: How to Meet the People You Want to Meet (Writer's Digest Books, 1986).

Since 2005, Steve has written a political blog with a spiritual perspective, Notes From the Trail, hailed as an encouraging voice "in the bewilderness." His latest book, written with cellular biologist Bruce H. Lipton, PhD is Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future and a Way to Get There From Here (Hay House, 2009). Steve is active in transpartisan politics and the practical application of Spontaneous Evolution.

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Kim Keller shares her experiences with Tantra and Sexual Energetics. She is a Tantric practitioner, Intimacy Coach and Sex Educator from Ashland, Oregon. She specializes in working with Women, Men and Couples with a wide array of sensual and sexual issues. Kim has 25 years of experience as a teen counselor before discovering the practice of Tantra in 2005.  She now combines her earlier years as a counselor with the healing and heart opening principles of tantra and sacred sexuality. Kim is driven by her strong commitment and passion as she helps her clients to discover and reclaim their own deep sensual and sexual nature as a path of what she calls “healing through pleasure”.

Mantak Chia was born in Bangkok, Thailand in 1944. Recognized very early as having great potential for spiritual development, he was initiated into meditation practices by Buddhist monks at the age of 6. While studying in Hong Kong, he learned Tai Chi Chuan, Aikido and Kundalini Yoga from a variety of teachers. His pursuit of Taoist teachings lead him to meet the White Cloud Hermit, a Taoist Master originally from Central China, living at that time in the mountains not far from Hong Kong. Master Yi Eng was to become Master Mantak Chia's principle teacher. Over a period of five years, Master Yi transmitted to Master Mantak Chia the most sacred and closely held Taoist practices, formulas and methods of internal alchemy, culminating in the Reunion of Heaven and Man.

Realizing that as transmitted to him, these Immortal practices could not easily be absorbed by western students, Master Mantak Chia undertook to integrate them with his studies in western physical anatomy. Through this process he created a unique view of the internal aspects of these practices. With the Universal Healing Tao system, he has created for the first time, a way for any individual to quickly get to the essence of subtle practices whose real purpose has been shrouded in secrecy for millenia.

The author of dozens of books, booklets, videos and CDs describing the theory and methods of these practices, Master Mantak Chia has taught hundreds of thousands of eager students the principles of Taoist internal practice over the past 40 years. He has certified hundreds of Instructors and Practitioners to help in the transmission of these teachings.

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Lee Holden studied and taught with globally respected wellness experts Mantak Chia and Deepak Chopra, facilitating seminars, writing books, and teaching in the US, Europe, and Asia. A licensed acupuncturist and herbalist in the state of California, Holden received a BA in psychology from UC Berkeley and a Master's Degree in Chinese Medicine from Five Branches Institute in Santa Cruz, California. He has traveled throughout Asia studying Qigong, meditation, and Chinese Medicine. 

Based in Northern California, Lee Holden offers classes in meditation, Tai Chi, Qigong, and Yoga, and he also teaches at the Five Branches Institute of Chinese Medicine, a leading U.S. institute for the study of Chinese Medicine. He is the founder of Pacific Healing Arts, which provides consultation to individuals and corporations for promotion of health and well-being. Lee’s expertise and down-to-earth teaching style have made him a popular speaker and workshop facilitator. He is also a stress management consultant to top Silicon Valley corporations like Apple, 3Com and Cisco, and has been the on-set wellness consultant for several Hollywood film productions.

Raven initially learned self-healing techniques from Mantak Chia, a Taoist master from Thailand. As a dancer, she developed interest in healing herself not just physically, but also emotionally, spiritually, mentally and energetically from a young age. Certified as Universal/Healing Tao Instructor since 1983, Raven offers daily classes in Hollywood Beach, Florida, as well as on cruise ships several times a year. She has also taught corporate classes and workshops at different organizations for a number of years.

Raven recorded a music CD called "Jazz-Up Chi" to inspire you, the listener, to learn self-healing using the Ancient Chinese methods backed up by Quantum Physics. She hopes that listening to her songs will inspire you to do your own research and heal yourself by tapping into the flow of universal energy.

Charles Muir is credited as an originator of the modern Tantra movement in the United States - and he continues to be one of the movement’s most distinguished, respected, and sought-after teachers.

Charles is a teacher of Tantra with 35 years of teaching experience to over 25,000 students resulted in Source School of Tantra Yoga's unique educational system.  In 1980, he originated the Tantra: The Art of Conscious Loving® format, Sacred Spot Massage, and many other experiential exercises, which have become the cornerstones in the curriculum of most Tantra educators. His revolutionary work has been quoted in over 100 published books.

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Sarina Stone was born from two lines of Mediterranean gypsies in 1965. A modern gypsy, Sarina travels internationally 80% of the year teaching Grandmaster Mantak Chia's Taoist methods of natural health including Cancer prevention, digestive care, and secrets of longevity. She is currently a multi-certified Universal Healing Tao medical Chi Kung instructor, acclaimed speaker, and writer who has inspired many with her humor, passion for life, and integrity.

R. Mordant Mahon is a Universal Healing Tao Instructor who teaches Taoist-based Chi Kung tand its practical applications for self-healing and Quantum Manifestation. A true Renaissance Man, Mordant is an eclectic dabbler in a wide variety of subjects—from religion and theater to psychology and comedy writing.

Gary Clyman began his Tai Chi career in 1974 in Chicago. He studied Temple Style Tai Chi Ch'uan as taught by Master Waysun Liao. Gary took his studies very seriously from the beginning. In 1977, his Tai Chi practice developed into a full time job, requiring between 6-10 hours per day of personal practice. Temple Style Tai Chi Ch'uan as passed from master to disciple is a real Tai Chi system. It includes all aspects of the highly revered and famous art. It includes forms, standing and sitting meditations, martial art applications and fighting, two person sensitivity training and high performance endurance training. Rarely will you find a Tai Chi system like this. A number of other masters have come to study with Gary Clyman on an ongoing basis. As he explains, "Chi Kung was originally taught as "the icing on the cake" to augment his Tai Chi training." His techniques, Tidal Wave(tm) Chi Kung, Mind Light(tm) Nei Kung and most of Temple Style Tai Chi Ch'uan, are available on video and in special workshops to those interested in learning these powerful, internal techniques to quickly and permanently change their lives for the better.

Minke de Vos is a Tao Tantric artist and founder of Feminine Treasures cultivation, Silent Ground retreats, and Tao Tantric Arts teacher trainings. As a Senior Universal Healing Tao instructor and Medical Qigong Master Therapist, she has been practicing and teaching qigong full time for more than 30 years.

She is internationally known as one of the top teachers of qigong and sacred sexuality. As creator of enChant Dance, her heart-centered, soulful, creative-based work inspires people to live with passion and love.

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To watch the video versions of this and other interviews with our featured guests, please go to QigongMasters.com. Michael Winn is an internationally renowned expert in Qigong and Taoist arts. He has over 30 years of experience in teaching subtle energy methods internationally, from Kundalini Yoga in 70's to tai chi, qigong, and inner alchemy meditation today. He spent many years studying with the top spiritual teachers of his generation.

Michael Winn served two terms as the President of the National Qigong Association. He has also served as the Chairman of Healing Tao Instructors Association of the Americas for 9 years. He was one of the original Senior Instructors that launched the Healing Tao, also known as Universal Tao, which globally has certified over 1000 instructors and brought Tao teachings to hundreds of thousands of people. He has led a dozen China Dream Trips helping develop a relationship between Western and Chinese Taoists in their sacred mountains and temples and pioneered taking Western Taoists into caves on Flower Mountain (Huashan) in China to meditate. 

Michael Winn is the Founder and Director of Healing Tao University summer retreat program (now at Heavenly Mountain in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains) - the largest Taoist arts program in the west. In the 80’s, he helped master Mantak Chia establish his fame by writing and/or editing his first seven books. One of the best known is their collaboration entitled Taoist Secrets of Love: Cultivating Male Sexual Energy. He authored ten Taoism home study DVD-CD courses and many other Qigong articles & book chapters.