In Qigong and Zen societies the student never takes credit for what they have inherited. All healing knowledge has been transmitted through long lines of meditation masters and master healers. Hands-on healing is the oldest form of healing known to mankind. Though it is widely over-looked by Western physicians, the father of medicine's Hippocratic Oath - "Do no harm" - recognized the health benefits in the Laying-on-of-Hands:

"The physician must be experienced in many things, but assuredly also in rubbing; for things that have the same name have not always the same effects. For rubbing can bind a joint that is too loose and loosen a joint that is too rigid ... Rubbing can bind and loosen; can make flesh and cause parts to waste. Hard rubbing binds; soft rubbing loosens; much rubbing causes parts to waste; moderate rubbing makes them grow."

Hippocrates (460 to 380 BCE)

I have been the recipient and synthesizer of many lineages through many master healers. It is my firm belief that as a holistic healer I must acknowledge that I am "standing on the shoulders of Giants."

My Qigong lineage is through Master Hao-Hee "Frank" Chan and Master Luke Chan, to Grandmaster He-Ming Pang and Guo Lin.

My Holistic Nursing Lineage is through Prof. Jean Watson, Prof. Karen Lee Fontaine, Prof. Lynn Keegan, Prof. Karen Guzzetta, Prof. Jean Achterberg, Prof. Leslie Kolkmeier, to Prof. Barbara Montgomery Dossey and Larry Dossey, MD.

My Therapeutic Touch lineage is through Barbara Stark, Dr Dolores Krieger, Dora Van Gelder Kunz, to Helena Petrovna Blavatsky.

My Healing Touch Lineage is through Barbara Stark, Myra Tovey, Dr Sharon Scandrett-Hibdon, Lem and Barbara Joyner, Janet Mentgen, Richard Moss, MD, to Brugh Joy, MD.

My Neuromuscular Therapy Lineage is through Paul St John, Doug Nelson, David Kent, Ray Nimmo, Janet Travell, Leon Chaitow, to Boris Chaitow and Stanely Lief.

My Trager™ Lineage is through Beverly Cox, Deane Juhan, to .Milton Trager, MD.

My Bio-Energetics Lineage is through Barbara Stark, Janet Mentgen, Barbara Brennen, John Pierrakos, MD, Alexander Lowen, MD, to Wilhelm Reich.

My Somatic Emotional Release Lineage is through Patti Shaffner, John Upledger, DO, Dr. Stanley Keleman, Roberta DeLong Miller, Dr. Illana Rubenfeld, Emily Dicke, to Dr. Ida Rolf and Frederick Matthias Alexander.

My Reiki Lineage is through Marcella Lopez, Rev. Laryl Fett, Hawayo Takata, Chujiro Hayashi, to Mikao Usui.

My Lymphedema Therapy Lineage is through Linda Roherty and Gunter Klose, Michael and Ethel Foldi, MDs, to Emil and Estrid Vodder.

My Tibetan Buddhist Lineage is through Lama Lobsang Palden, Ani Pema Chodron, Chogyam Trungpa, Kyabje Gelek Rimpoche, to HH the 14th Dalai Lama.

My Shamanic Lineage is through Patti Shaffner, Donna Callaghan, Patty O'Malley, Carlos Casteneda, Starhawk, Dr. Bradford Keeney, Sandra Ingerman, to Dr. Michael Harner.

My Zen Meditation Lineage is through Thich Nhat Hahn, Ram Dass, Adyashanti, Osho, Ken Wilber, Steven Harrison, Stephen and Ondrea Levine, Peter Mattheissen, Wong Kiew Kit, Chungliang "Al" Huang, Allan Watts, Uncle James Finely, Thomas Merton, to D. T. Suzuki Roshi, and Sri Neem Karoli Baba.

My Hawaiian Lomi Lomi Lineage is through M. Kalani Keaulani Souza, Julie Kai Stowell, Tamara Mondragon, to Auntie Margaret Machado.

I am forever indebted to these wonderful and compassionate healers. Hao La!

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