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Chi Rivers co-founders and directors Peter Francis & Claire C Cunneen are senior instructors of the College of Tao and its Chi Health Institute. Claire coaches, teaches, and practices Qigong therapy and Feng Shui for healing. Peter Francis offers the wide-ranging health services of acupuncture & traditional Chinese medicine. Together, they offer their teaching as a long-cooking stew of ancient Chinese wisdom, modern personal experience and direct contact with Nature. |
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Peter Francis has thirty years experience as a practitioner of Oriental medicine and Taoist healing arts. He is certified as a Taoist meditation teacher and as a senior instructor in Dao-In, Eight Treasures and Self-Healing Qigong methods by Chi Health Institute of the College of Tao.
He holds a Masters degree in Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine from Yo San University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Los Angeles, California, and has advanced post-graduate, clinical training from Zhejiang College of TCM in mainland China. A professor and clinical supervisor of acupuncture and Chinese medicine at several US colleges for over 12 years, he has also served in the US as a national acupuncture examiner and as an herbal advisor on testing for the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine.
He is accredited in acupuncture and Chinese herbology with the Swiss Professional Organization of Traditional Chinese Medicine and with the Registre Suisse de Médecine Empirique and is certified with Foundation ASCA for Naturopathy MTC including Chinese dietary therapy, Qigong & Anmo-Tuina massage. He is currently in private practice in Geneva, Switzerland (see: AcuCentre) and leads our TCM continuing education program.
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Claire C Cunneen
Claire is a Constructive Life Guidance coach of the College of Tao, certified InfiniChi therapist (see: Qigong Therapy) and Alexander technique teacher. She is certified by Chi Health Institute inTaoist meditation, Dao-In & Cosmic Tour Merry-Go-Round and as a senior instructor in Self-Healing Qigong, Eight Treasures, Crane Style Qigong and Harmony Style Tai Chi. She has been teaching self-development through movement, body-mind techniques and Qigong, meditation and reflection across the US and in Europe for over 25 years. She designed and taught the Qigong curriculum at Mercy College’s Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine Program and was one of the original instructors in the Qi development program at Yo San University of TCM.
She offers individual coaching and group instruction for students and patients and leads our Flow of Life series on women's health. For more about Claire, see: About your coach & Feng Shui / About the practitioner.