Brendan Thorson

• Brendan Thorson LMP, Yi Ren® Qigong Instructor

  

  Brendan Thorson

  Brendan began practicing Tai Chi and Qigong in 1994. Five years later, in 1999, he began studying qigong with Dr. Sun the originator of Yi Ren® Qigong and began teaching Yi Ren Qigong in 2001.  Yi Ren Qigong has transformed his life and health.  Through his dedicated practice, Brendan has overcome years of fatigue and exhaustion, a compromised immune system, insomnia, hypoglycemia, chronic muscle and joint pains, excess anxieties, fears and stress, and weakened mental capacity and memory.

  He is a career Qigong instructor. He began teaching Yi Ren Qigong in 2001. Between 2001-2007 he taught private qigong classes and in 2008 began teaching public classes and weekend workshops. Between 2009 and June of 2014 he was commonly teaching classes 5, 6 or 7 days a week and since 2009 he has taught well over 1,000 classes and over 50 weekend workshops. Beginning in the summer of 2014 he stopped teaching weekly class series to focus on teaching weekend workshops in Seattle and introducing Yi Ren Qigong to other areas throughout the U.S. He founded The Noble School of Qigong in 2009, and has had five articles published in Qi: The Journal of Eastern Health and Fitness.

  Brendan originally began his pursuit of Tai Chi and Qigong to improve his lost health and vitality. Before finding Yi Ren Qigong he studied other forms Tai Chi and Qigong that were very nice, but he rarely felt the energy (Qi) in those forms and also did not experience any significant health improvements.

  Between 1994 and 1995 he studied Tai Chi Chuan from local Seattle instructor Chu-Lan Chiong LA.c.  Then, in 2003 he was very fortunate to have the opportunity to study Tai Chi with Madame Gau Fu.  From Madame Gau Fu’s instruction he began to learn deeper aspects of the Internal Martial Arts including the Dantian rotation, Standing Meditation and the States of Empty and Solid.   Madame Gao Fu was an accomplished Taiji master in both Yang and Chen styles of Taiji.

  He was also blessed to learn from his friend and fellow Yi Ren Qigong instructor Bill Fouts and Qigong Master Dr. Xue Zhi Wang. 

  Brendan is also a practicing licensed massage therapist (LMP) with 19 years of experience. He graduated from Brenneke School of Massage in Seattle, WA in 1997. Then studied Myofascial Release and Structural Integration for two years with certified Hellerworker Maureen Warren from 1997-1999. He also studied with a few Rolfers including R. Louis Schultz PhD. the Author of an excellent fascial anatomy book, “The Endless Web”. During Brendan’s massage sessions he combines and integrates all of his learning and knowledge from western massage training, traditional Chinese medicine theory, qigong, taichi, and the soft, firm and gentle touch he developed from his years as an avid potter during his teens and early twenties to provide a healing session for each client.