Sharon practicing at the Temple of Heaven in Beijing, 2007

SHARON SMITH has been practicing Qigong, Tai Chi,

& other Taoist spiritual and healing arts for

33 years & teaching them for 28.

Her influential teachers include Masters Mantak Chia

(she was in his original class of western students in 1981),

Li Jun Feng, Ming Chan, and T.K. Shih. 

Other important teachers include Jeanette Chi, Gilles Marin,

Don Ahn, Carol Anthony,and Livia Kohn

as well as many other Tao masters. In 2011, she attended the

Wudang Martial Arts Internal Kung Fu Academy in China.

Sharon is certified by Master Mantak Chia's Universal Tao system

as a Senior Instructor and Chi Nei Tsang Practitioner. 

She is also certified by the International Sheng Zhen Society to teach

Sheng Zhen Gong, the work of Master Li Jun Feng.

  In addition, Sharon has practiced Iyengar yoga for over 30 years.

She has traveled many times to China, Thailand, India, the Philppines,

and New Zealand  to further her studies.

Sharon currently teaches seminars internationally as well as regularly at the

New York Open Center.  Other teaching venues include Master Mantak Chia's

Tao Garden in Thailand, Omega Institute, Healing Tao University,

The Learning Annex, Wainwright House, United Nations Feng Shui Club,

Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, Morningside Retirement Health Services,

Dorot Senior Center, Jubilee Senior Center, Healing Tao of New York,

La Guardia Community College, Queens College, New York University,

Adult Education Division of the New York City Board of Education,

& the New York State Department of Parks & Recreation.

Sharon  was a seminar leader at China's "Women in Daoism" conference

in 2011 and a presenter at the 2009 International Tai Chi Symposium

in Nashville, Tennessee. She is a recipient of numerous foundation grants

for her work with senior citizens and in community mental health programs. 

Sharon was a spokesperson for Qigong on the nationally syndicated PBS

television show, "Asian America" and was the Chinese Astrology

columnist for the Asian Food and Lifestyle Journal from 2005-2007.

Her photographs are in the collections of the Carpenter Center

for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts;

Hofstra University Library, Special Collections Department, Hempstead, NY;

Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; The Polaroid Corporation

, Cambridge, Mass.; Polaroid Europa, Offenbach, Germany;

Polaroid Far East, LTD, Hong Kong as well as

private collections in the U.S. and Europe.

For information about her artwork, visit

www.imagesbysharonsmith.com

Contact Sharon here or by phone at 212-243-6771.