On-Land Class Series
Embodied Wisdom: The Alchemy of Qigong and Meditation
Teaching Team
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Teja Bell
Teacher
Teja Bell (Fudo Myoo Rōshi 老師) is a lineage dharma teacher and Rinzai Zen master. He is a 6th-degree Black Belt in Aikido and a life-long practitioner and teacher of Chinese Internal Arts and Qigong. Teja integrates dharma and qigong as embodied mindfulness. He taught over 150 retreats at SRMC.
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