Qigong is a traditional Chinese approach to health and wellness. This method incorporates stretching and breathing techniques to maximize health and vitality. This workshop focuses on techniques from several traditions including the Qingcheng Mountain tradition of Qigong, breathing, and postures of the Shaolin Temple. These methods are sometimes called “Chinese Yoga” and are often referred to as the “Elixir of Immortality” due to their strong rejuvenating benefits. We will be focusing on breathing practices to heal and nourish the five elemental phases in our bodies that correlate to the Qi of our internal organs, as well as incorporating Taiji Quan.

 

This is the classical approach that focuses on flowing movements related to the philosophical ideas of Yin and Yang as well as incorporating Daoist healing modalities.

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From the age of six, Shane Nicholetti has been a student of the martial arts. He began in Shotokan Karate, and not long after moved into Shaolin Kempo Karate, Kung Fu, and Qigong, studying well into his early twenties. In 2018 he trained toward an amateur fighting career in Muay Thai, training in Thailand. In 2020 he returned to the internal arts, reconnecting with his practice of Qigong and Taiji.

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After the passing of his mentor, Sifu Neil MacPherson, Shane has continued his study of Qigong and Taiji with his current teacher, Master Steve Jackowicz, since 2025. He is now working toward certification in Medical Qigong and Qigong Healing, and toward his Daoist initiation.

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Dr. Stephen Jackowicz is a 19th-generation inheritor of the Longmen Pai lineage in the Zhang Yuanfu line, passed down from Grandmaster Zhang Yuanming, a teacher Shane has also had the honor of periodically studying under directly.

Qigong is the cultivation of breath, stillness, and internal energy, a discipline refined across centuries and passed carefully from teacher to student.

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Shane is also a gifted medium and psychic. The same stillness and disciplined breath built through decades in the martial and internal arts are what allow him to hold space clearly for Spirit, and for the people who sit with him, whether in the tattoo chair or in a reading.