Kenneth S. Cohen

Kenneth S. Cohen (Gao Han) is a world-renowned health educator, China scholar, and Qigong Grandmaster with more than fifty years of experience. A former collaborator with Alan Watts, he is the author of the internationally acclaimed book The Way of Qigong: The Art and Science of Chinese Energy Healing (Random House), best-selling audio and video courses (Sounds True), and more than 200 journal articles. He offers lectures, workshops, classes, and teacher training as well as healing and consultations in Colorado, California (near San Diego), and throughout the world.

Ken speaks and reads the Chinese language and is the author of various works published in the U.S. and China. He received his Teaching Certificate from the William C.C. Chen School of T’ai Chi Ch’uan in 1974 and was a student of Taoism (also spelled “Daoism”) and Taoist literature with Drs. Michel Strickmann, Wolfram Eberhard, Edward Schafer, and other renowned scholars. He has a great love of Chinese cultural arts, especially the Art of Tea (Cha Yi) and ancient Chinese poetry. In 2003, Ken won the leading international award in energy medicine, the Alyce and Elmer Green Award for Innovation and Lifetime Achievement.