Hi, I am Ioannis. The first massage module I came in contact with was the imperial Chinese massage called Chi Nei Tsang. This helped me to discover how much I enjoyed helping others to enhance their own energy flow and thus heal themselves. This experience led me to further studies on Shiatsu, Reiki, Thai Massage, Hatha Yoga, Touch for Health (applied Kinesiology), and Sotai Corrective Bodywork. Today, as a certified associate instructor of Master Mantak Chia’s Universal Healing Tao System, I teach Conscious Breathing, Healing Sounds, Chinese Yoga, Qi Gong, and Meditation. I am also a 300h certified Hatha Yoga teacher by the Lotos Yoga Academy, one of the oldest Yoga Alliance Certified schools in Greece. But mostly, I teach and practice Thai massage as a way of living life through “insightful touch”, as one could freely translate the Sanskrit phrase “Kavi Hasta”.
A full list of my teachers follows:
- Panayotis Kontaxakis – Universal Healing Tao Qi Gong, Tai Chi, Dao Yin (Chinese Yoga), Healing Sounds, and Meditation
- Juan Li – Dream Yoga
- Master Wang Ting Yun – Medical Qi Gong for the spine
- Master Wen Mei Yu – Soaring Crane Qi Gong
- Dr. Gaspar Garcia – 8 Jewels Qi Gong
- Dr. Ho – Traditional Chinese Medicine & Ear Acupuncture
- Dr. George Pappas – Tai Chi Qi Gong & Daoist Meditation
- Dr. George Aggelinakis – Bioenergy Balancing
- Moscha Skodra – Shiatsu
- George Tsirakidis – Thai Massage
- Spyros Peristeris – Thai Massage
- TMC Thai Massage School – Traditional Thai Massage
- Sunshine Massage School – Thai Massage meets Osteopathy (by Arno L’ Hermitte)
- Dimitris and Natasa Galani – Reiki I
- Panayotis Manikis – Fukuoka style natural farming
- Master Duan Zhi Liang – Wu Ji Qi Gong
- S.N.Goenka and assistants – Vipassana meditation in the tradition of Sayagyi U Ba Khin
- Master Tew Bunnag – Bodhisattva virtues and Tai Chi Chuan
- Dr. Kyriakos Zografos – Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture
- Linda Kapetaniou – Hatha Yoga
- Andrzej Kalisz – Zhan Zhuang Qi Gong
- Panayotis Derventis – Daoyin Yangsheng Gong
- Professor Dimitris Bilalis – Introduction to organic farming
- Biff Mithoefer – Yin Yoga
- Master Juan Li – Tibetan meditation to transform emotions and beliefs
- Robert Krzisnik & Marjeta Novak – The Transformational Power of Nonviolent Communication
- Master Liu Jianshe – Zhineng Qigong
- Irene Norberg – Touch for Health 1 (International Kinesiology College)
- Monroe Institute – Hemi Sync
- Elias Koubounis – Introduction to Laughter Wellness
- Zeta Tabaki – Chinese herbs and applications
- Oriental Medicine Centre – Sotai Corrective Bodywork
- Matthew Dinakis – Su Jok
- Jong Kook Baik – Korean Hand Therapy (KHT)
- Mark Gessler – 5 Elements Acupuncture Theory
- Centre of continuous education and training of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens – Adults Education
- Dr. Siddhesh Bandekar – Introduction to the Ayurvedic Theory and Healing Treatments
- Jeff Reid – Wudang 5 Animals Qigong
- Ioannis Faitakis – Dr. Tan’s Balance Method of Acupuncture