ACCOMPLISHMENTS & AWARDS

Award-Winning Author: 5 books, 2 fiction and 3 non-fiction. A Heart Blown Open won the Nautilus Award for Silver and was a finalist the Foreword Book-of-the-Year Awards

Award-Winning Copywriter: Reader's Choice Award 2016, JD Supra -- I was one of 200 writers recognized from among more than 34,000 considered 

Ordained Zen Priest and Sensei: authorized teacher in Mondo Zen and Integral Zen under Junpo Denis Kelly Roshi and Doshin M.J. Nelson Roshi

Kung Fu and Qi Gong SiFu: authorized lineage holder. 3rd generation sifu (師傅) with 30+ years of training in Northern Kung Fu, under Da SiFu Master Jong Hoon Jeon. Cross-training in Muay Thai, Wing Chun, boxing, grappling, and Krav Maga.

Jin Gui “Golden Shield” Qi Gong Practitioner: 10+ years training and near completion of the 1st of 3 levels of mastery of this iron style of Qi Gong  

Men’s work: co-leading a men’s group for the last 15+ years with same group of 8 men + leading men’s weekends

Integral Theory: expert knowledge of the work of Ken Wilber, Robert Kegan, Terri O’Fallon, and others, and application in day-to-day life

Somatic-Based Meditation: trained in and worked with Reggie Ray and other somatic meditation masters