Jon Ashley Weston (The Professor – W.U. Wei – Wei Tzu)
Born after World War I, growing up in the Midwest area of the United States, trained in Catholicism; this student of the Tao started studying under Master Mantak Chia in the early 1980s and in the later 1980s became a Senior Instructor of the Universal Healing Tao (specializing on one on one training). In the early 1990s this Senior Instructor moved to Tao Garden, Thailand, and assisted Master Mantak Chia in building the 80 acres Tao Garden Taoist Training Center. For the next six years this student of the Tao travelled to over 30 countries teaching with Master Mantak Chia and serving as Marketing and Construction Coordinator for the Tao Garden.
Master Mantak Chia
is the creator of the Universal Healing Tao system and is the director of the Universal Healing Tao Center and Tao Garden Health Resort and Training Center in the beautiful northern countryside of Thailand. Since childhood he has been studying the Taoist approach to life. His mastery of this ancient knowledge, enhanced by his study of other disciplines, has resulted in the development of the Universal Healing Tao System, which is now being taught throughout the world.
Ingrid Fikr
Ingrid Fikr was born in Europe, raised in Czech Republic during the Cold War and was well trained in survival skills within communist endeavor in Eastern Bloc. She accomplished a Master Degree in Marketing, Management and Logistic and after she worked in different business occupations as Market Researcher, Human Resources Consultant and Internet Specialist. One day she realized a different calling in her life facing her father’s health struggles with convectional and western medicine pills based treatments causing a dangerous circle of side effects, which ultimately lead to his death at 51 years of age.
James Allen Atwood
is a student of the Universal Healing Tao System studying and practicing under Master Chia and William U. Wei. He was born after WWII and has been a real estate investor in the Portland, Oregon area for the last forty years. He currently manages over twenty of his properties that he owns in and out of downtown Portland. With his wife and three children while working with his real estate investments he has continued his studies of self-understanding, self-betterment and self-improvement and embracing the understandings and practices of the Tao. He shares these understandings with his wife and three children.
Theodore Sherman Ross
is an innovative and resourceful IT executive with extensive business systems development; he has an eCommerce supply chain background in auto manufacturing and related industries. Ted has a track record of implementing high impact solutions delivering significant costs savings and revenue increases. He developed the eCommerce supply chain system for Parker Hannifin and implemented this to large automotive clients and extensive business account development at CompuServe securing New Accounts and producing significant revenue penetration with all software products. Ted possesses a rare blend of systems expertise, interpersonal skills and business savvy. He is known for being naturally gifted in negotiation skills and for improving customer relations and service levels. Ted is donating his time to be the Wu Chi Acres Botanical Engineer with an engineering degree from General Motors Institute.
Bernard Sherman Gilreath
is a student of the Universal Healing Tao System studying and practicing under Master Chia and William U. Wei. He was born after WWI and served in the Air Force for twenty years and retired as an Air Force Colonel. He then worked for General Motors Chevrolet Division as a Purchasing Agent. While at Chevrolet he met John F. Kolar, Automotive Representative (W.U. Wei’s Godfather) and they later founded Gilreath Manufacturing Company, which produced original injection molded automotive parts. After fifteen years he retired completely selling the company, which was producing over 30 Million dollars of automotive parts per year with over 300 employees. After retiring he has continued his studies of self-understanding and self-perfection and embracing the understandings and practices of the Tao and is known in meditative circles as Swami Gil.
Laurens Vehmeijer
is the founder and director of MY-organization and the creator of MY-etool. He studied Law and Economics in the Netherlands and sought to discover a different and new approach of Life Science and Psychology. He combined Western and Eastern disciplines regarding people’s health, happiness and success. He consulted many masters all over the world in order to find the common denominator of all human issues which are humans themselves. That’s why he created the self-management tool of MY-etool as a form of self-assessment on the spiritual, mental, emotional and physical levels.