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Instructors
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  George Mackie, LAc, is licensed acupuncturist and Certified Zero Balancing practitioner and instructor with the Zero Balancing Health Association. George has a private practice in Boise, ID while also maintaining an active teaching schedule of Zero Balancing courses including Zero Balancing I and II, Geometry of Healing, and Freely Moveable Joints.
Like many Zero Balancers, George was introduced to ZB in acupuncture school and fell in love with the work. After completing the initial acupuncture training, he went on to qualify as a practitioner of Zero Balancing and then, further, as a faculty member on the Zero Balancing staff. Zero Balancing has truly enriched his life and, by extension, the lives of those around him.
George lives in Boise, ID, with his wife and three grown children where he continues to study qigong and Taiji Chuan alongside Zero Balancing and acupuncture.
Click here to listen to a brief interview that Advanced Educators'
Creative Director, Kate Chase Ryan, recorded with George in 2009.
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Gil Hedley, Ph.D., is the founder of Integral Anatomy Productions, LLC, and Somanautics Workshops, Inc.
Gil went to Duke University as an undergrad and then to the Divinity School of the University of Chicago for an MA in religion. He went on to earn a Ph.D. in Theological and Philosophical Ethics. While in Chicago he studied Tai Chi, which, among many other things, helped him re-conceive his body.
With the path of body exploration opened, Gil went to the Rolf Institute to train in massage and was certified as a Rolfer® in 1993. Gil and his wife, Karen, then spent 4 years studying whole person healing and psychodynamics at the IM School of Healing Arts. During that time he began teaching anatomy at the healing school as well as in the dissection lab. It is from these informal workshops that the Six-Day Intensive Hands-On Human Dissection WorkshopTM, now the core curriculum of Somanautics Workshops, Inc, first took form.
Gil has completed the enormous project of recording his approach and message in a video format. Four volumes of The Integral Anatomy Series are now available and a book by the same name is in progress. To date, the Series has been distributed to at least 30 countries and continues to be well received by people from a variety of disciplines, professions, and walks of life. It is a true contribution to one's own process of self-exploration and discovery.
On a personal note, Gil is a dad to three wondrous home-schooled kiddies, a hubby of one amazing wife, is blessed with many friends, and finds himself an eternal student of life.
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Grandmaster Xu Mingtang, PhD, is a Qigong Grandmaster and the founder of ZY Qigong school. He comes from an ancient Shamanic family and is an internationally renowned and respected Qigong healer, teacher, and researcher. Author of many books on Qigong, his books have been translated into English, German, Hebrew, Russian, and Czech. He travels throughout the world teaching Qigong and offering Image Therapy healing.
About ZY Qigong
ZY Qigong is a 7,000 year-old Chinese art of healing and spiritual development. This meditation-based energy practice combines gentle movement, breath, and mindful awareness to activate, store and focus energy. It teaches a method of dialogue with the information and energy of the surrounding Universe. Grandmaster Xu's ZY Qigong school has over 40,000 students worldwide.
About Image Medicine
Image Medicine is a new alternative healing modality concentrated on activating our own self-healing potential. It increases Qi and works on physical, energetic and spiritual levels. ZYQ's Image Therapy has been especially effective in areas which have little or no treatment in western medicine.
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Heidi Nebel Ochsner, MS, Registered Dietitian, Certified Nutritionist
 Heidi’s enthusiastic love of food brings a joy to nutrition that is often lacking when dietary discussions arise. She believes that nutrition and digestion are the body’s foundation and directly affect every aspect of health.
Heidi received her master’s degree in nutrition from Bastyr University. She is a Certified Nutritionist and Registered Dietitian in Washington State, and has completed a 7-month post-graduate nutrition internship through Tulane University in New Orleans, LA.
Heidi's nutritional counseling and colon hydrotherapy practice is at the Tummy Temple (tummytemple.com) in Seattle, WA where she specializes in working with digestive disorders, detoxification, and food sensitivities.
Heidi loves to teach and has been a guest lecturer at the University of Washington and with Love Your Guts Seminars. She is an aspiring writer and plans to publish fun, delicious, and educational cookbooks.
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Marty Ryan, LMP, brings to his work a deep understanding and caring for the body. He is a passionate belly massage educator and a dually certified Maya Abdominal Massage (MAM) and Chi Nei Tsang (CNT) practitioner. He has taught palpatory anatomy and belly massage seminars internationally since 1998.
Marty is the former Massage Therapy Department Director at the Tummy Temple (tummytemple.com) and is now in private practice with his wife, Kate Chase Ryan, at the Areis Building in the Eastlake neighborhood of Seattle. In addition to his professional practice, he teaches Love Your Guts (loveyourguts.net) manual therapy training seminars for massage professionals. This certification series focuses on the palpatory experience of the abdominal organs and connective tissues, the layers of the belly from skin to spine, and a wide variety of treatment techniques for pathologies of the digestive and reproductive systems.
Marty says, "I like to teach, even while I am working with patients," and feels this is the best way to enhance awareness, understanding, and healing.
Love Your Guts Seminars is a bodywork education company dedicated to bringing the world of the abdomen and viscera into a whole new light. We use high impact learning strategies to integrate whole-body-systems physiology and visceral anatomy information into a thoughtful and effective approach to belly massage. All seminars are presented with joy, laughter, gratitude, studiousness, clarity, and most of all, FUN! We invite everyone to truly Love Your Guts!
Click here to listen to Marty respond to the question:
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Mary Murphy, LMT, CST-D, Certified Zero Balancer, has been involved in therapeutic bodywork for 25 years as both a practitioner and advanced bodywork educator.
Her teaching style creates a warm, creative space in which to discover new ideas and skills to inspire, nourish, and expand personal and professional growth. She is passionate about the immense potential Zero Balancing offers in balancing and revitalizing at the deepest level of our structural and energy systems.
Mary is a certified instructor and practitioner of Zero Balancing (ZB) and is a member of the Zero Balancing Board of Directors. She is a graduate of Georgetown University and the Chicago School of Massage Therapy with additional diplomate certification in CranioSacral Therapy, and in Neuromuscular Therapy. She currently teaches basic and advanced Zero Balancing classes including Zero Balancing I & II, Geometry of Healing, the Spirit of the Organs, and Unlocking the Secrets of the Scull.
For the last decade, her clinical practice was based at Advocate Medical Group’s Center for Complementary Medicine at Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, Illinois. She supervised the therapeutic bodywork division in the medical residency Complementary Medicine rotation. She has also worked in pediatrics at an outpatient rehabilitation clinic for children with learning and developmental difficulties.
In fall of 2008 she opened the Zero Balancing Wellness Center of Chicago.
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