Dr. Sally Blake LaMont is a naturopathic doctor, acupuncturist, and educator who has devoted the last twenty-seven years to practicing and teaching the principles of healthy living. She blends the science of naturopathic medicine with the ancient wisdom of traditional Chinese medicine. In addition to maintaining a clinical practice in Marin County, California, she teaches at San Francisco State University’s Department of Health Education.
As prior Executive Director of the California Naturopathic Doctors Association, Dr. LaMont spearheaded the successful legislative campaign to license naturopathic doctors (NDs) in California, setting professional standards and granting 37 million Californians access to naturopathic medical care. She received the "Naturopathic Physician of the Year" Award in 2001 from the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians for her leadership and contribution to shaping health policy in the United States. As a consultant to the natural products industry, she provides expertise in integrating nutraceuticals into clinical practice.
Dr. LaMont has served on numerous boards, including Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine, Marin Health Council and the Advisory Board for the Integrative Health Studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Known for her passionate delivery, Dr. LaMont’s services include speaking engagements at conferences and retreats, designing personalized natural treatment protocols for her patients, natural products industry consulting, healthy cooking classes and detoxification programs.
Dr. LaMont is a 1981 graduate of the National College of Naturopathic Medicine in Portland, Oregon and the Emperor’s College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Santa Monica, California in 1986. Her passions in life are teaching, cooking, yoga, hiking, traveling and spending time with her family and friends. To learn more, visit www.naturodoctor.com.
Robert Rabbin is a contemporary mystic; a speaker and writer who presents Radical Sages programs throughout the world. He is a leading exponent of Silence and self-inquiry as a way of revealing our authentic being and of living an inspired life. He has followed the path of self-inquiry since 1969, when he began to practice meditation and research various spiritual paths.
In the early 1970s he lived in Europe and the Middle East. In 1973, Rob trekked overland to India, where he met meditation master Swami Muktananda. He studied with Muktananda for the next ten years.
Rob now leads seminars and retreats throughout the country and meets with individuals for private consultations. As an executive coach, Rob works with leaders from a broad range of companies and organizations. He is a coauthor of Leadership in a New Era, and his articles have been published internationally in numerous magazines and journals. Rob is a frequent speaker to groups in the business, academic, and spiritual communities. For details, visit, http://www.RobertRabbin.com
Roger Jahnke has been in the health field since 1967 beginning with body therapies, herbal medicine, Tai Chi, Yoga and meditation. He turned his attention seriously to Oriental medicine in 1972 with study at the North American College of Acupuncture in Vancouver, B.C., under Dr. Kok Yeung Leung who now has his school in France. In 1975 Roger transferred to the Tai Hsuan School of Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine in Honolulu, Hawaii under the directorship of Dr. L. Siou, where he completed his Master level of study and internship. In this period Qigong (Chi Kung) was particularly alluring.
In 1978 Roger became the first director of the department of Oriental medicine at the Beechwold Clinic in Columbus, Ohio. He completed his doctorate in Oriental medicine (OMD or DOM) at the California Acupuncture College in Los Angeles in 1983 under an international faculty. He opened his practice in Santa Barbara in 1980 and began teaching at the Santa Barbara College of Oriental Medicine in 1981. Between 1984 and 1994 he was the chief physician and administrator of the Health Action Clinic in Santa Barbara with an interdisciplinary staff of acupuncturists, physical therapists, massage practitioners and health educators.
Dr. Jahnke began the study of "Breath Physiotherapy" in 1968 with a special interest in the pranayama of Indian Yoga and study with Swami Satchidananda and Yogi Bhajan. In 1970 he began the study of Taiji (Tai Chi) with various teachers. In 1975 Dr. Siou of the Tai Hsuan School of Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine proposed that Qigong (Chi Kung) was the essence and source of traditional Chinese medicine as well as the superior physician's personal "heal thy self" discipline. To be admitted to the school serious Qigong practice was required.
For over 20 years, including numerous pilgrimages to China, Dr. Jahnke has studied, practiced and taught Qigong on a regular basis. He has studied hundreds of forms of Qigong and visited with over 20 Qigong hospitals, institutes and training centers in China. He has a particularly strong connection with organizations in China that specialize in addressing cancer with Qigong. He has been the special guest of the Shanghai Cancer Recovery Association whose combination of Qigong (Guo Lin's Walking Qigong) and "social oncology". Their simple, group based methodology will have a world wide influence in the next few years. Dr. Jahnke's paper, "Qigong and Cancer", was presented at their 1995 annual conference, in Shanghai.
Roger was fortunate, also, to have a special visit with the Zhineng (Intelligence) Qigong Hospital and Training Center in northern China where several thousand patients (called students) practice Qigong for several hours everyday. Besides the ease of the practice method at the Zhineng Center the method is based on the group creating a "healing Qi field" (Quchang). Even those who are incapacitated by their disease can begin to heal by being infused with healing energy from the "field" channeled and produced by the healthier practitioners.
Dr. Jahnke has carefully drawn together, from research and experience, an elaborate picture of a "new" model of the physiological and energetic mechanisms that are stimulated by regular Qigong practice and other self applied health enhancement methods (SAHEM) including yoga, taiji (tai chi) and very low impact exercise systems. His work is a part of an international effort to understand the dynamic, interacting circulation of the "naturally occurring , internal, self healing resource" (NOISHR) that the Chinese and Ayurvedic traditions have called Qi and Prana.
Dr. Jahnke has been a participant in the major conferences on advances in alternative and complementary medicine in New York, D.C., San Francisco and San Diego and has spoken on self healing and alternative medicine to numerous hospital systems and health care associations including The HealthCare Forum, the Catholic Health Association and the American Medical Association. In 1995 at Columbia University he presented the keynote address, "There is a Profound Medicine Within Us" for the International Conference on AIDS/HIV and Chinese Medicine.
In 1991 he made several presentations at the First International Conference (in the US) on Qigong at the University of California, Berkeley. He has presented numerous lectures to America's clearinghouse for Qigong information, the Qigong Institute. His presentations have inspired professionals and citizens throughout the United States, Canada and, even, China with the simple yet amazing truth: the most profound medicine is produced within the human system through an interaction of physiology, mind and spirit.
Roger's articles have appeared in numerous professional journals including
"Qigong and Science" published in Guangzhou, China, the Journal of
The Healthcare Forum and the Journal of Eastern Health and Fitness.
He has been a correspondent on the internet regarding innovation in
healthcare through HealthWorld Online, HealthOnline and the Natural Healing
Forum of Compuserve. He has published several books, The Self Applied
Health Enhancement Methods and The Most Profound Medicine and a popular
Qigong instruction video Awakening and Mastering the Medicine Within.
He is co-author of the Qigong chapter in the historic book Alternative
Medicine: The Definitive Guide. You can see more of his work in the
Qigong/Taiji Center and his web sites <a href="http://www.feeltheqi.com"FeeltheQi.com The Healer Within.
He has several books available including the The Healer Within.
Director and Chief of Staff of Health Action Medical Clinic
Director of the Institute of Self-Inititated Healing
Director of the Qigong Department at the Santa Barbara College of Oriental Medicine
California State Board Cerified Practitioner of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine
Diplomate of the Natoinal Commission for the Certification of Acupuncturists and Herbalists
Founding Board Member, Qigong/Chi Kung Association of America
Member, California Association of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine
Member, American Association of Oriental Medicine
Member, Advisory Council of the Qigong Institute
Member, World Association of Medical Qigong
You may e-mail Dr. Jahnke at:
rjahnke@west.net
Dr. Roger Jahnke
Doctor of Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine
Health Action Clinic
243 Pebble Beach
Santa Barbara, CA 93117
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Leo Galland, M.D. has received international recognition as a leader in the field of Nutritional Medicine for the past 20 years. A board-certified internist, Dr. Galland is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and the American College of Nutrition, an Honorary Professor of the International College of Nutrition, and the author of more than 30 scientific articles and textbook chapters, including an invited chapter on Functional Foods in the Encyclopedia of Human Nutrition, 2nd Edition (Elsevier 2005). He has also written two highly acclaimed popular books, Superimmunity for Kids (Dell 1989) and Power Healing (Random House 1997), and has created Drug-Nutrient Workshop.
Dr. Galland received his education at Harvard University and the New York University School of Medicine and trained in internal medicine at the N.Y.U.-Bellevue Medical Center. He has held faculty positions at New York University, Rockefeller University, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and the University of Connecticut. In addition to a full-time private practice in New York City, Dr. Galland has been committed to educating physicians and other health professionals in the scientific application of nutrition to clinical practice. In 2000, he received the Linus Pauling Award from the Institute of Functional Medicine for formulating key concepts underlying the discipline of Functional Medicine.
