Jolanda started her first Taiji (Tai Chi) classes in Taiwan in 1989. During the total of ten years that she lived in Asia (China, Hong Kong, Singapore), she continued training in Taiji and later discovered Nei Gong (inner Qigong). She found her true calling when starting practising Qigong in Canada in 2008. The profoundly relaxed way of breathing, the meditative imagery from nature and the ease with which sinking into the ‘relax and repair’ mode (parasympathetic nervous system) simply unfolded, all felt like ‘coming home’. Training with multiple teachers ensued: Deborah Davis, Hajime (Harold) Naka from Kelowna and the internationally renowned master Sam Masich being the main ones.

Jolanda started teaching Qigong classes for the City of Kelowna in 2011. Her classes have clearly evolved since then, benefitting from all the holistic studies Jolanda embarked on within the past ten years (Sound Therapy, gentle Acupressure in the tradition of Jin Shin Jyustu and Foot Reflexology).

Jolanda is aware that she will perpetually continue her learning and evolving journey on this path called life and is looking forward to sharing Qigong at the Kelowna Yoga House!