Richard Leirer is one of the most experienced and accomplished Qigong teachers in the US
He has been a serious student and practitioner of the internal arts for over 35 years. He is considered by many to be one of the few American Qigong Masters.
He was accepted as a student with Master Huang, Tzeng-yu, Lee Henn, Master Hao Tian-Yao, Grand Master Hu Wei-yu, and was trained in the lineage Grand Master Zhong, Hong Bao . He has been officially recognized as a Master by the Chinese Qigong Society of Cleveland for his excellence in Neigong (Taoist inner alchemy meditation techniques). He has studied in China, and was certified as an instructor of Wu Ji Qigong by the late Master Zhu Wei from Tien Tai Mountain.
Richard has been actively involved in the promotion of Qigong in the United States. He was the founding vice president of the National Qigong Association (NQA). He was chairman of the standards committee of the NQA and created a consensus of national standards in Qigong. See NQA.org
Richard has created and maintains a Qigong program for pain management at Cleveland Meridia Hospital, a member of a group of hospitals functioning as a subsidiary of the world famous Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Richard has conducted classes in many hospitals in the Greater Cleveland, Ohio area. Richard has created programs, conducted research studies with the Cleveland Veterans Administration Hospital with Viet Nam war veterans, and published his findings in the International Medical Qigong Journal in Beijing, China. His research has been presented in porter form at the Midwest Psychological conference in Chicago.
Richard Leirer was one of the Qigong masters studied by scientists with the Lerner Research Foundation. Using brain mapping technology, it was determined that he has the ability to change his brain wave patterns at will into what have been called the "healing patterns" of the brain.
Richard is now offering course work and training in Taos New Mexico. See www.RichardLeirer.com