About
Kenneth S. Cohen
 Ken
Cohen (Gao Han) is the Executive Director and founder
of the Qigong Research & Practice Center. He
is a world renowned health educator, China scholar,
and Qigong Master with more than thirty years experience.
A former collaborator with Alan Watts, he is the
author of the internationally acclaimed book
The Way of Qigong: The Art and Science of Chinese
Energy Healing (Ballantine), best-selling self-healing
audio and video courses (Sounds True), and more
than 200 journal articles. In 2003 Ken Cohen
won the leading international award in energy medicine,
the Elmer and Alyce Green Award for Innovation and
Lifetime Achievement.
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translated into Chinese and numerous European languages.
Professor Cohen received his Teaching Certificate
from the William C.C. Chen School of T'ai Chi Ch'uan
in 1974 and completed graduate studies in Taoism
and Chinese language at Queens College, the New
School for Social Research, and the University of
California at Berkeley. |
Ken Cohen's teachers have included some of the most highly
respected masters and Grandmasters in the world, including
William C.C. Chen (Yang Style Taiji Quan), B.P. Chan (Chen
Style Taiji Quan, Bagua Zhang, Xing Yi Quan, Qigong), Madame
Gao Fu (Chen Style Taiji Quan and Primordial Qigong), Share
K. Lew (Taoist External Qi Healing), Sunyata (Vedanta in
the lineage of Ramana Maharshi), Swami Venkatesananda (Sivananda
Yoga), and others. Professor Cohen was the principle apprentice
to Dr. K. S. Wong, acupuncturist and Taoist Abbot from China's
sacred mountains. To advance his study of both Taoism and
Comparative Religion, Professor Cohen attended the New Seminary
and was ordained as an interfaith minister (M.S.C.) with
a graduate degree in pastoral counseling (M.S.Th.). He also
holds an M.A. in Holistic Psychology and other academic honors.
Professor Cohen is a leader in the dialogue between ancient
wisdom and modern science. He was able to demonstrate unusual
physiological control as one of 9 "exceptional healers"
studied in the Menninger Clinic's Copper Wall Project. He
has lectured at medical schools, scientific conferences,
and numerous universities and is an Adjunct Professor at
Union Institute Graduate School. His sponsors have included
the American Cancer Society, the Association of Asian Research
Scholars, the Canadian Ministry of Health, the American Academy
of Medical Acupuncture, the National Institute for the Clinical
Application of Behavioral Medicine, and the International
Society for the Study of Subtle Energy and Energy Medicine.
He has been called "the preeminent Qigong Master of
the West" and was probably the first Qigong Master in
the West to treat physician-referred patients. In 1994, Professor
Cohen was chosen as keynote and sole representative of Chinese
medicine at the World Congress on Energy Healing in Switzerland.
His work has been featured in USA Today, Newsweek, Time,
Bottom Line, and National Public Radio. He has taught more
than 30,000 students.
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