Dr. Roger Jahnke, OMD, one of the most respected luminaries in the fields of mind-body practice, wellness, and integrative medicine, has dedicated his professional life to sharing and teaching the holistic healing traditions of China. He's emerged as a key spokesperson for and master teacher of Tai Chi, Qigong, and mind-body practice, combining his 35 years of clinical practice as a physician of acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine with knowledge gleaned from 10 research tours to China.

Roger is director and chief instructor at the Institute of Integral Qigong and Tai Chi (IIQTC) in Santa Barbara, California. His first book, The Healer Within: Using Traditional Chinese Techniques to Release Your Body’s Own Medicine, delivered a revolutionary guide to self-care with simple medical Qigong practices, adaptable for every lifestyle. His second book, The Healing Promise of Qi: Creating Extraordinary Wellness Through Qigong and Tai Chi, distills best practices drawn from 25 traditional and modern forms of Tai Chi and Qigong, and offers guidelines for tailoring a personal wellness and empowerment regimen to each individual’s unique needs.

Gloria Y. Yeh, MD, is associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, director of mind-body research in the division of general medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and director of clinical research at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine based at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She also directs the NIH-funded T32 post-doctoral research fellowship in integrative medicine at Harvard Medical School. Trained in general internal medicine, Gloria is a faculty physician in primary care at Healthcare Associates at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. As a scientific investigator, she's an internationally recognized leader in the field of integrative medicine, with research expertise in mind-body clinical trials. She is an active member of the Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine and Health, and has served on the NIH’s National Advisory Council for Complementary and Integrative Health.

Shin Lin, PhD, (biological chemistry, UCLA), teaches cell biology and integrative medicine, and is a member of the Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute at UC Irvine. He was previously chairman of biophysics at Johns Hopkins University, and later appointed dean of the school of biological sciences and associate vice chancellor for biomedical initiatives at UC Irvine.

Shin has trained with several leading Tai Chi and Qigong masters, including grandmaster Chen Zhenglei, and in acupuncture for physical medicine at the department of rehabilitation science at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Shin founded the laboratory for mind/body signaling and energy research at UC Irvine for hi-tech studies on the health benefits of Qigong/Tai Chi and Traditional Chinese Medicine therapies.

He was appointed to the National Advisory Council for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, chairman of Think Tank on Bioenergy Medicine, and scientific advisor on Non-Pharmacological Management of Pain and Stress in the Military, all at the National Institutes of Health of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He was editorial board member of Chinese Medicine and a scientific advisor for the series Traditional and Classical Chinese Health Cultivation published by Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, where he was a visiting professor. Shin is presently editorial board member of Journal of Integrative and Complementary Medicine, hon. chairman of the Geriatric Medical Council of the Gerontological Society of China, and since 2004 he's been co-chair of the World Congress for Qigong/Tai Chi and Traditional Chinese Medicine.