joined on 03/27/08
last updated 05/14/08
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about me
SIFU MICHAEL SHAMAN has taught Tai Chi Chuan, Qigong and related martial and healing arts professionally for over 25 years. He has studied and practiced these arts extensively in the US, China and the Himalayas for over 3 1/2 decades.
Sifu Michael has taught in California since 1987, primarily in the Los Angeles area, and for the past three years in the San Francisco Bay area. He has been a training coordinator for the Los Angeles chapter of the International Yan Xin Qigong Association, is an active member of the San Francisco Chapter of the Jing Mo (Ching Wu) Athletic Association, and is certified as a Tian Gong Healer. He has been featured on American and Chinese TV in focused specials about Tai Chi Chuan and Qigong, and has appeared in a number of TV shows and feature films. He has had articles by or including him published in a variety of esoteric periodicals, including "Inside Kung Fu" and "Internal Dialogue", etc.
His principal teachers have been some of the most accomplished martial, spiritual and healing arts Masters in the world, including:
*Waysun Liao (Author of "Tai Chi Classics", Shambhala Press)
*William C.C.Chen - Grandmaster from the Cheng Man Ching lineage,
(Author of "Body Mechanics of Tai Chi Chuan")
* Peter Ralston: 1978 Full Contact World Champion
("Principles of Effortless Power", North Atlantic Press)
*Geshe Tsultim Gyeltsen - Tibetan High Lama;
Representative of the 14th Dalai Lama to the US
*Dr. Yan Xin - World Famous Qigong Healer and Researcher,
( Author of "60 Characters on Traditional Chinese Qigong", Silk Skyway Press).
*Wong Jack-Man - Northern Shaolin Kung Fu and Internal Martial Arts Grandmaster.
Currently Sifu Michael Shaman resides in San Francisco where he offers CLASSES, WORKSHOPS, PERSONAL INSTRUCTION and a formal APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM. Learn more at www.michaelshaman.com
TONIGHT: Michael Shaman WuQinXiSF3 @ Zenter/TempleSF 10 DEERaLEAPIN Animal Frolics 3, Thursday July 17 6:30 PM
( events » nightlife ) SIFU MICHAEL SHAMAN will present the third in a series of five intensive workshops on the FIVE ANIMAL FROLICS (WuQinXi) of HUA TO from 6:30 - 9 PM, THURSDAY evening, JULY 17, at ZENTER /PRANA/TEMPLE SF (aka ZenCompoundSF), 540 Howard Street, 3RD F...
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event starts Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 6:30 PM
Elephant Paints Self Portrait -- fans of Ganesh, Babar, Hannibal, Alexander, etc, Must See
(blog entry)
http://video. yahoo.com/ watch/2303805/ 7243228
I am speechless. My tribe friend, Tai Chi student and co-teacher Sherlyn just forwarded this link to an amazing unedited video of an Elephant Artist painting a portrait. I wish I was more faci...
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10 DEERaLEAPIN: ANIMAL FROLICS 3 @Zenter/TempleSF MichaelShaman WuQinXi3 THURSDAY EVENING JULY 17
( events » community ) SIFU MICHAEL SHAMAN will present the third in a series of five intensive workshops on the FIVE ANIMAL FROLICS (WuQinXi) of HUA TO from 6:30 - 9 PM, THURSDAY evening, JULY 17, at ZENTER /PRANA/TEMPLE SF (aka ZenCompoundSF), 540 Howard Street, 3RD F...
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event starts Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 6:30 PM
TONIGHT: Michael Shaman WuQinXiSF3 @ Zenter/TempleSF 10 DEERaLEAPIN Animal Frolics 3, Thursday July 17 6:30 PM
( events » community ) SIFU MICHAEL SHAMAN will present the third in a series of five intensive workshops on the FIVE ANIMAL FROLICS (WuQinXi) of HUA TO from 6:30 - 9 PM, THURSDAY evening, JULY 17, at ZENTER /PRANA/TEMPLE SF (aka ZenCompoundSF), 540 Howard Street, 3RD F...
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event starts Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 6:30 PM
10 DEERaLEAPIN: ANIMAL FROLICS 3 @Zenter/TempleSF MichaelShaman WuQinXi3 THURSDAY EVENING JULY 17
( events » community ) SIFU MICHAEL SHAMAN will present the third in a series of five intensive workshops on the FIVE ANIMAL FROLICS (WuQinXi) of HUA TO from 6:30 - 9 PM, THURSDAY evening, JULY 17, at ZENTER /PRANA/TEMPLE SF (aka ZenCompoundSF), 540 Howard Street, 3RD F...
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event starts Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 6:30 PM
http://video. yahoo.com/ watch/2303805/ 7243228
I am speechless. My tribe friend, Tai Chi student and co-teacher Sherlyn just forwarded this link to an amazing unedited video of an Elephant Artist painting a portrait. I wish I was more facile at getting links to show up in blue so you could just click and go there now. Anyway, go there and experience a few minutes of amazing grace...
Tue, July 15, 2008 - 2:32 PM
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I just want to say that I really appreciate having you guys as my friends. I'm very new at trying to relate to actual humans over this supra-human connective device. Someway the Clan I've been able to draw to me is simmmmly merverous. Just coming off a liver stone cleanse and the feelings that come up for me as I encounter each of your faces, bodies, and/or icons sends shivers all over and I know that I have been Blessed. What a fine, spiritually conscious, agressively sensual, out there,...
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I will lead an ongoing Monday afternoon (1:30-3pm) QIGONG HEALING class at Dance With Life Chiropractic & Wellness Center, 1475 9th Avenue (off Judah, near Golden Gate Park Arboretum in San Francisco) beginning this Monday, June 9th. The class will learn and train a variety of exercises and techniques for Qigong self-healing as well as techniques to facilitate or catalyze the natural healing functions in others. On good weather days, the class will move outdoors to Strybing Arboretum, just do...
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