Our Founder, Facilitators and Allies:
Founder
Dr. Morris trained in the martial arts for over forty-five years. He began studying jujutsu, then judo, tai chi, kung fu, karate, boxing and wrestling. He earned his first black belt in jujutsu in 1965 while in the U.S. Army and taught self-defence in Germany for 3rd Med and later at Penn State University. He began teaching the Hoshin system of meditation and martial techniques at Hillsdale College in Michigan in 1980. In 1982, he and several students became interested in ninjutsu and began attend seminars with Stephen Hayes. This exposure to ninjutsu led to training under Hatsumi-Soke and a relationship of respect that continues to this day.
In 1985, Dr. Morris endured the greater kan and li of nei shen gung fu, sometimes referred to as Kundalini and in 1986 was made a member of the Chinese National Institute of Chi Kung. In 1990, he achieved the rank of godan and shidoshi in bujinkan budo taijutsu at the Atlanta Tai Kai. In 1991 he was given the rank of rokudan and title of oshihan in nihon karatejutsu. In 1992, Dr. Morris was inducted into the World Martial Arts Hall Of Fame. In 1989, he was recognized by the government of South Africa as a master instructor of martial arts by their Wu Shu Federation while he was putting on demonstrations in Johannesburg.
Dr. Morris trained in Japan with Dr. Masaaki Hatsumi. In his own words, "Since I've studied a number of martial arts, traditional and modern, I tend to be eclectic in how I teach. One should be able to pick and choose in an art where they are comfortable. I see martial arts as both a philosophy of life as well as a collection of techniques for defending oneself. I include strategy, meditation, weapons, and viewpoint as well as energy channelling and the overt development of chi as part of the instruction in hoshinjutsu."
On April 1, 2006 Dr. Glenn Morris passed on from the physical into the spiritual world. His life, works, seminars and personality will forever stay in the hearts of all those he touched.
Facilitators
Susanne Williams
(Synthesist, Catalyst, Nemesis)
Susanne Williams has 20 years of energy- and spirit-work in the Western Mystery traditions both Hermetic and Shamanic. She has progressed the work beyond the greater Kan and li since the early 1990s.
At home in many worlds, Susanne applies her work in high-end corporate consulting settings, as well as amongst healers, outdoors athletes, martial artists, crazy-wisdom people, body-modifiers, artists, and a wild variety of the energy-aware. A diplomat between the worlds, both human and non-ordinary.
A keen outdoorswoman, she enjoys challenging people in a variety of wilderness settings, including rock-climbing/mountaineering expeditions and backcountry forest craft, as well as forays into the other-world wildernesses.
An accomplished ultra-distance runner, using specific chi-running and powerful healing techniques, and a broad base in energetic martial arts. (Predominantly Tai-ji and Chin-na applications.)
Susanne has been trained and ordained a Gnostic priestess in a western internal alchemy tradition stemming from Chaldean roots, and carries lineage in northern spirit-work, and female-mystery traditions.
In the last 10 years she achieved cross-fertilization and validation with oriental internal alchemy practices ranging from Bon-Po Tantric work, through intensive Taoist chi-gung practices, to the classical Kalachakra empowerment received from HH the Dalai Lama.
After being well grounded in a wide base of world energy- and spirit traditions, and recognized by a variety of lineage holders, Susanne specialized in the Ordeal Path, sacred sexuality and the strategic/martial aspects of diplomatic spirit-work.
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Dan Kahn has 20 years of energy and meditation experience and is a qualified meditation and bio-energy therapist instructor.
Dan Kahn has been a professional practitioner of Bio-Energy therapies for the past 5 years, primarily Bi-Aura Bio-Energy Therapy (www.bi-aura.com), Reiki and Theta Belief System Therapy. He had practices in London’s Harley Street, the Dorchester Hotel Spa and Wandsworth with an international client base in countries such as America, Japan, France and Switzerland.
Dan Kahn was honoured to have been nominated by the President of the Complementary Medical Association, Professor Jayney Goddard FCMA, Lic.LCCH, Dip.ACH, for the category of Outstanding Practice Award 2007 run by the CAM Magazine and achieved the “Highly Commended” status.
This achievement was in part through the results of his practice and his promotion of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) by a combination of appearances on television, talks and seminars at health shows, articles in major magazines such asVogue, Harpers & Queens, Here’s Health and PCZone and through his teaching of meditation, bio-energy therapy and self-development workshops.
Dan Kahn also featured in the “Old vs. New” episode of the BBC2 documentary series “The Private Life of Harley Street” which was also rebroadcast on UKTV Documentary channel. The programme had a viewing audience of 2.2 million viewers. In the documentary Dan Kahn facilitated the full recovery, on camera, of a client who had suffered from chronic endometriosis for over 10 years. The client had previously received several conventional surgical interventions which had failed to have a significant effect. He has also featured in the “Vision Health” videos for integrated medicine.
Dan has recently finished studying a Masters in the History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine at Durham University in order to get a better theoretical grounding so as to be able to engage with conventional medicine and science in their own language and help facilitate complementary therapies into the mainstream.
Prior to his professional bio-energy practice Dan pursued a successful career in the Army to the rank of Captain, followed by IT Management in "Blue Chip" companies. He hopes that by combining his qualifications in the History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine (MA), Technology (MSc in Information Technology) and experiences of healing, that he can bring a range of credible skills with a rigorous and professional approach to bear upon complementary therapies and esoteric energies.
