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EVERYTHING ZEN

ABOUT US

Everything Zen is an affiliation of healers, martial artists, spiritual beings from around the world who seek to help others along the path of peace and harmony in the world. They have dedicated themselves to walking a path that is traditional in nature and yet slightly outside the mainstream of Western society.

Aaron Hoopes

Aaron Hoopes is the founder of ZEN YOGA and the author of Perfecting Ourselves: Coordinating Body, Mind and Spirit and Breathe Smart: The Secret of Happiness, Health and Long Life. He is also the creator of the deep relaxation program, Inner Sunrise. He has studied the martial arts, Eastern philosophy, and alternative medicine in the United States, Australia, and Japan for the past twenty years. He has a degree in Asian History and Japanese Culture from Tulane University and has spent a number of years in Japan studying under the chief instructor at the headquarters of the Japan Karate Association. He holds a third degree black belt in Japanese Shotokan Karate and is a certified instructor. He is also certified as an instructor of Shanti Yoga and Meditation, Tai Chi and has practiced Shiatsu Massage for over 17 years. In addition, he has extensive knowledge of Iyengar Yoga, White Crane Qigong, Okinawan Karate, Shorinji Kenpo, and Zen Meditation.  He has taught classes in breathing and martial arts at Tulane University, Dartmouth College, UCONN, and the University of Vermont as well as at the Sakai Shibu in Osaka, Japan, and the Shanti Yoga Meditation Institute on the Gold Coast of Australia. He travels widely and conducts personal training workshops in Zen Yoga, Breathing, Quietism and the martial arts. His children's book Catch the Cat is due out next year.

Aaron is available for demonstrations, seminars, workshops and personal training courses.

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Sonia Mesa

Sonia Mesa has studied yoga and internal martial arts for over 25 years. She has been practicing Zen Meditation for over 10 years.  She has taught classes in aerobics, aqua aerobics, Qigong, Tai Chi, Chilel™ and weight training. She is also a student of native American spirituality. She has traveled widely, spending time training and teaching in Louisiana, Texas, Georgia, California and Italy. She has extensive knowledge of homeopathy, holistic healing and alternative medicine.

Sonia is the Chief Instructor of Zen Yoga Miami and conducts classes, workshops and seminars in and around Southern Florida.

Sonia is available for demonstrations, seminars, workshops and personal training.

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Shanti Gowans

Shanti Gowans is a renowned Yogi, spiritual teacher and Living Master. Trained from childhood in the ancient techniques, she is a master of the traditional wisdom and techniques of Yoga, as well as in the system of philosophy and psychology on which such techniques are based.

Born in India, and educated in both the eastern and western traditions, Shanti migrated to Australia in 1972, and established the Shanti Niketan Yoga and Health Entrees in Melbourne. In 1995 Shanti relocated to the Gold Coast and established Shanti Yoga and The Meditation Institute where she currently lives and teaches a community of formal students and casual visitors.

Having contributed a significant body of work to studies ranging from the Vedas to social transformation and transpersonal psychology, she has authored more that 100 papers and 20 books on various dimensions of spiritual and yogic life. Internationally sought after as an inspirational speaker with global and cosmic perspectives, her profound teachings although vast and subtle, are incomparably direct and revolutionary in their impact.

Shanti Gowans is listed in 'The World's Who's Who of Yoga' and 'The World's Who's Who of Women' and through her blissful style of being she introduces people to the divine life - a state of profound stillness within and a vital joyous life without. By only teaching what she lives, she has made the seemingly impossible practical. Her high energy level and unwavering enthusiasm conveys the promise that all can reach their maximum potential.

Shanti Yoga and Meditation Institute - Australia

Chien "King" Lam

Chien "King" Lam is the archetypical Chinese martial arts master. A sixth degree black belt in Shotokan karate and a master of Tai Chi, King has studied martial arts for most of his life.

He is a student of Chen style Tai Chi under Grandmaster Cheng, Jincai.

He is the founder and chief instructor of the Tamashii Karate and Tai Chi Center in New Orleans, La where he teaches both Chen style Tai Chi and Yang style Tai Chi, in addition to karate, qigong and meditation

Michael Berger

Michael Berger began his journey onto the path of martial arts in 1979. He spent a total of three years in Japan, training under the chief instructor of the Japan Karate Association. He holds the rank of Shihan (master) and is a fifth degree black belt.

Michael is the founder of Ken Zen Ichi Do a traditional path of Shotokan karate.

The Ken Zen Ichi Martial and Healing arts dojo is located in Los Angeles, CA

Ken Zen Ichi Martial Arts and Healing

Aya Itagaki has studied and practiced classic Japanese calligraphy and sumi-e brush art since she was a child in Japan and is pleased in recent years to have reached what in Japanese art is the RI (third) level of skill called “transcending tradition.” She has illustrated seven books published in Japan and the U.S. by such companies as Kodansha, Heinle and Heinle, and Wesleyan University Press. In the 1970s she studied art history at Dartmouth College, where she discovered in the library calligraphy done by her great, great grandparents in Japan, all of which intensified her motivation to excel in art. She has taught and demonstrated her unique Aya brush art style and has exhibited in many New England Art Centers where her work is widely known and admired.

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