Testimonials

Tina, I wanted to share with you that when I visited my family in Pennsylvania in March, my Father mentioned to me that his girlfriend Mary had been feeling depressed lately because she gained too much weight.  I asked him to invite her over, he asked me not to say anything  - well, I didn't need to. When I saw her, she naturally looked beautiful. So I told her genuinely, "Mary, you look beautiful." She smiled very happily.  Next thing you know, she asked me if I brought photos from my recent trip to New York City. I showed them to her and my Father. Then I showed her your book and I shared with her about my training with you and showed her my certificate.  Tina, then she says out of the blue, - "Sharon, did she teach you anything to do for depression?" (Dad was surprised that she opened up to me like that.) We only had so much time, so the next thing you know I was showing her how to breath abdominally (all the while my Dad was bragging that I showed him that a few years ago:)  Then she and I moved into the parlor and we walked in a circle in the Heaven posture. She loved it!  My Dad sat at the table looking in at us, cheering us on.  Afterwards, I read from your book to her, especially from the Chapter 3 on the Balance of Health .  She just kept smiling and saying, 'yes, yes'.  Tina, she is 78 years old and is very young in heart and spirit and is very beautiful. Dad says how her dieting is driving her crazy and she's getting headaches counting her calories. Well, the week after I left, Dad called to tell me that Mary has been happy since our visit and that she's not going to worry about that crazy diet, and he also said she's walking around her house with her palms up. I told Dad that he should fly me to his house so I can teach the whole workshop to Mary!  This made me so very happy, because now my Dad is happier. So I thank you Tina from all of us!

Sharon, April, 13, 2008

I am very happy to be one of your instructors. Your Qigong-set is a wonderful tool for teaching and practicing. I love my Earth Qigong classes. They are a real enrichment; they give strength, pleasure and they are fun.I remember first learning it from you in May 2006 in Darmstadt. I loved it right from the beginning and I knew I wanted to teach it.  

Barbara Nowak Feb.7, 2008

       Dear Tina,
       I am the lucky student of Barbara Nowak in Heidelberg Germany! From her I have learned the forms of your Qi
Gong for women and have received so many positive transformations in my own life and shiatsu practice
because of it. Many of my clients are soldiers returning from duty in Iraq and Afganistan and have a special kind of energy about them that is quite challenging to work with as a shiatsu practioner. However since I practice daily Earth Qi Gong I have found a stability and strength, and a peacefullness in  my heart I did not know I had and my shiatsu clients receive the best quality Qi from me. I have recomended some of my clients to do the Concentrated Mind before we begin shiatsu treatment and they tell me there is a greater depth to their ability to relax and become aware of their body mind relationship just from that first movement! What better resonance and peace could I wish for them.
      So Thank you for developing this Qi Gong form.
      Wish you all the Best

Marianne Steele GSD, AOBTA®-CP Jan.25, 2008

    I have taken many workshops by diffirent QiGong, Tai Chi Masters for 9 years.  Tina Zhang's workshop were the REAL one that made me feel my energy at the best.  Her explanation was crystal clear, her movements were full of Qi, and her friendly and caring manners were making the powerful transmission of her internal work to me and all of the workshop attendents! 

Her teaching is not about some of the variations of Tai Chi, or, revalution of internal martial arts and Qi Gong, her teaching is the true classical Chinese healing and internal martial arts that have never been modified or changed!

Jeremy Brooks,  New York

             I am not a teacher of health classes or something like that; I am managing a big administration. But I am very encouraged now.  Since I had the workshop with you in Darmstadt, I practice almost every day the Qi Gong you taught us. If I did not have enough time, I practiced only some segments of the Qi Gong set.  I feel that I have much more energy than before and I LOVE the exercises. Besides I still practice Yoga in a group, but one of the advantage from the Qi-gong is, that you don’t need much space, so you can do it in a Hotel or anywhere when you away from home, even if the ground is dirty or something like that. I am sure that I will continue practicing and hope that you will come to Darmstadt again!  I want to thank you for your nice, friendly and clear lessons. I enjoyed it very much. Thank you a lot!!!

  Wilma, Darmstadt, Germany 

 

The Tai Chi Fan course was a very wonderful experience. I very much appreciated your amazing teaching ability, patience and willingness to share with so much enthusiasm your knowledge of Tai Chi and Qi Gong.

 

Thank you! Michael P. Milburn, PhD, DAc, Sydney, Canada

 

 “Suddenly one day I realized that not only was I gaining weight like a sumo wrestler in training, losing interest in sex and oscillating between fits of giddy optimism and deep depressions, but that I also was dead tired from not having a good nights sleep in longer than I could remember when. If I didn’t wake up broiling and radiating heat like a steak on a stick, I awakened in a shivering chill with rivulets of sweat covering my body or I simply jolted awake in a sudden full blown anxiety attack which could range in subject anywhere from the family bills to the impermanence of life. I had to admit that I’d reached that point in a woman’s life where things start to change and I wasn’t changing gracefully.

 

I considered hormone therapy, but was terrified by the health risks which were associated with that path. I was at a complete loss as to what I should do and then by chance I met Shifu Tina Zhang at my local health club, where she taught a Tai Chi class. When I heard about Tina’s Earth Energy Qi Gong for Women”, I was immediately intrigued. At first I took the lessons from Shifu Tina mostly out of curiosity and a wonderment at how she looked and acted as youthful as she did at that time in a woman’s life, but as the classes went on and I began to practice at home every day I began to notice changes in my life. My weight and my moods seemed to have stabilized; I was regaining that special attraction for my husband and best of all I was sleeping through most nights with almost no symptoms of the infamous hot flashes. These improvements in my health have continued to this day as has my practice of Shifu Zhang’s program. I would highly recommend Shifu Tina Zhang’s Earth Energy Qi Gong for Women for all women who have reached that special time of change in their lives which marks their entrance in to maturity and the wisdom of experience.”

 

Martha Goldstein, House wife, New York City.

 

“I love the great energy that “Earth Energy Qi Gong” practice is giving to me! I feel much more in touch with my own body than ever before and I now truly feel a deep connection to our “Mother Earth”.  I practiced everyday and lost 22 pounds within 3 months!  Thank you!”

 

Wendy Li, Accountant, Anaheim Hill, CA

 

 “As I began to enter that time in a woman’s life when the drives of the body give way to the experience and understanding of age I was troubled by the physical symptoms which accompanied this spiritual transition. As a long time instructor of meditation and yoga and an eater of only raw foods, I would never consider hormone therapy. I was privileged to find the answer to my quandary by meeting Tina Zhang who introduced me to her “Earth Qi Gong for Women” in a Woman’s Life. This program has relieved all of my physical symptoms allowing me to feel younger, prettier, and ready to enter the most spiritual phase of my existence”

 

 Heather Liewelly - Yoga & Zen Meditation Instructor,  BA. Philosophy, MA. Asian Studies, Greenwich Village, New York City

 

 “You are kicking so much butt girl.  Keep up the great work and awesome attitude.  You are truly an inspiration and have such a nice way about you when you teach and interact with the students.  I can see how they open up to you”. 

 Kristen Lang, Taoist Water Method Qi Gong Instructor, Seattle,

 

 “Congratulations on your National Championship!  And all the second placings aren’t too shabby either. I have been teaching your Earth Energy Qigong to my regular Monday "Tai Chi" class. They love it! I have slipped parts of it into my yoga classes as well with great response. Every one loves it. I think you have a winner”. Thanks again for the great workshop!”

    Dolores - Tai Chi, Yoga Instructor, Bristol, VA            

 

My daily life has been in a 9-5 working rat-race followed by Yoga mat-race, the same routine of 5-days a week.. Once I was introduced to Tina's Qi Gong and Tai Chi practice and learned diffrences between a muscle-based workout and an energy-based practice, I switched.  It's taken my body, mind, and spirit to a completely new level.                 

 

  Thank you, Tina, Your "best student", - Mary, New York