Sifu is a graduate of the prestigious Beijing University of Physical Education, has been a student of Chinese Martial Arts for forty years with many awards, and a teacher of Chinese internal arts since 1975 in China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, Canada and the U.S. She is the founder of the Eastern Internal Arts Institute and of the Tasting Tao Center. She was an actor in the first modern mainland Chinese martial arts movie (The Honor of DongFang Xu. Also called Pride’s Deadly Fury) and has been featured on the Discovery Health Channel. She is a Taoist and Buddhist practitioner with a Master’s degree in Religious Studies and is working on her Ph.D. in Religious Studies with an emphasis on Chinese Buddhism.

Her specialties are internal and healing arts. Her combination of knowledge, skill and teaching ability is unique and her motivational techniques enable her students to surpass their greatest expectations. To experience her instruction is an opportunity which should not be missed.

Her teaching philosophy is to help her students to be happy, be healthy, be wise and be one’s true Self. Her advice to her students is that it is easy to be a practitioner or a teacher. It is not difficult to be a good practitioner or a good teacher. But it is very difficult to be a good, decent, truthful, honest and humble person. Try to be that good person.

Sifu has taught for:

• Universities

• the U.S. government

• Corporations

• Hospital cancer center

• Nursing homes

• Monastery

• Seminars

• Private individuals

Jorge A. Bañales has been practicing Tai Chi since 1991. In 2000, he graduated from the Instructor Training Progam at the Eastern Internal Arts Institute. Besides his own private students, Jorge has been leading classes for the Inova HealthSource program at hospitals in Northern Virginia, and the Fairfax County Recreation Parks Authority.

For additional information about classes in the Northern Virginia/Washington DC area, please visit Jorge's website www.jab-tai-chi.com, email him at taichijab@aol.com or call (703) 568-6932.

Born as Adam Friedensohn and recognized by Tsewang Ngodrup Rinpoche as the activity emanation of the Yogi and Loppön, Tulku Chimed Yugyal of Rangnang Ogminling Dzogchenpa Monastery of Kham Riwoche, Tibet, Lama Rangbar exemplifies the transfer of Eastern wisdom to the Western mind, having absorbed these living traditions over the past three decades. Today he is one of the few Westerners who can lucidly explain spiritual principles, based on direct experience and realization. Lama Rangbar is the founder and director of the Ngakdra Labrang.