Chunyi Lin     

Chunyi Lin is a certified international qigong master and founder of Spring Forest Qigong.  His fluency in numerous Chinese dialects provided him the rare opportunity to study with many of the most respected qigong masters in his native China. He has been teaching qigong and using qigong techniques to help others for more than twenty-five years. Master Lin is also highly skilled in tai chi, Chinese herbal medicine, and acupuncture.

Master Lin is the director of the Spring Forest Center for Health, Wellness & Empowerment in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  As many as 200 people, from across the United States and many foreign countries, come to his center for healing assistance every week.

During 2004 he created an educational partnership with Normandale Community College of Bloomington, Minnesota to provide fully-accredited courses in Spring Forest Qigong health and healing techniques. All of the course curricula were created by Master Lin and he serves as the program director and lead instructor.

Master Lin was formerly a college professor in Guangdon Province in China. In January of 2005, he was awarded a masters degree in Human Development-Holistic Health & Wellness from St. Mary's University in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He served as Director of Qigong Programs at Anoka-Ramsey Community College in Anoka, Minnesota, from 1999 to 2004.  

Master Lin teaches four levels of Spring Forest Qigong and has created a series of home learning materials for students, including videos, guided audio meditations, and reference manuals. He is a frequent keynote speaker at national health conferences.  

He is coauthor of a #1 Amazon.com bestseller, Born A Healer, and coauthor, with Dr. Nisha Manek of the Mayo Clinic, of a chapter on qigong in the recently-released Textbook of Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 2nd Edition. Master Lin is also a member of the Transformational Leadership Council founded by Jack Canfield.

Since coming to the United States in 1995, he has helped more than 100,000 people learn about the powerful, healing benefits of Spring Forest Qigong. He now devotes all of his time to the teaching of Spring Forest Qigong and helping others. He lives in the Twin Cities with his family.

Master Lin's vision is "a healer in every family and a world without pain."

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Jim Nance

After a decade of intense and dedicated training, in April of 2005 Sydney James "Jim" Nance was certified as a 2nd Degree Spring Forest Qigong Master by Qigong Master Chunyi Lin, the creator and founder of Spring Forest Qigong. Master Nance is the first of Master Lin's more than 100,000 students to have ascended to the high level of qigong master. He is also believed to be the first African-American in history to be certified as a medical qigong master.

In his youth, Master Nance was an outstanding basketball player. He led his high school team to the Iowa State Basketball Championship in 1967, and two years later he was recruited to play professional basketball in Europe. Master Nance was having an exceptional rookie season and anticipating a move to the NBA when a series of crippling injuries ended his career. He had numerous surgeries that failed to repair the damage to his knees and back.

With no hope of continuing a professional sports career, Master Nance returned to college. He received a bachelor's degree in elementary education and then a master's degree in career counseling. He has worked with students and inner city youth for more than three decades.

In 1995, he met Chunyi Lin and started studying Spring Forest Qigong. "In just that first session, eighty percent of my pain was gone," he recalls. "What I experienced with Master Chunyi Lin was an immediate kind of release and relief. I felt like a load had been lifted off my shoulders and physically I felt like I could move again without a lot of discomfort. That really piqued my interest." 

He became devoted to the study of Spring Forest Qigong. Over the years he became Chunyi Lin's most dedicated student, often practicing deep-meditation techniques for 12 hours a day or longer. He also began using the energy techniques he was learning to assist others in healing physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. He became Master Lin's teaching associate in 1998 and continues to work in that capacity. 

Master Nance is certified to teach all four levels of Spring Forest Qigong and works with people in private healing assistance sessions at the Spring Forest Center.
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