Certification Requirements

I am happy to offer Certification in Qi Gong Therapy through the Qi Gong Institute of Rochester. The requirements for certification are listed below. I am offering this as an option to those who are interested although any person may take classes at the Institute without committing to the whole program.

Certification Requirements

1. Qi Gong and Chinese Medicine
2. Qi Gong for Wellness and Pain Relief
3. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Nutrition
4. Eating for Healing
5. Beginning Qi Gong Healers Class
6. Advanced Qi Gong Healers Class
7. Tai Chi (24 form)/ Qi Gong for Health and Balance
8. Provide 100 sessions (approximately 1 hour/each) of private Qi Gong Therapy on any number of individuals (signatures required) after beginning Advanced Qi Gong Healers Class. (You may charge a fee for these session, they don't have to be free)
9. Written exam ($100)
10. Oral exam ($100)
11. Practical exam ($100)

For those taking the Seminar Programs:

There are four seminars required for certification. Beginning Qi Gong Healers Seminar is equivalent to taking both Qi Gong and Chinese Medicine and Beginning Qi Gong Healers classes, Intermediate Qi Gong Healers Seminar is equivalent to taking both Qi Gong for Wellness and Pain Relief and Advanced Qi Gong Healers Classes, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Nutritional Healing Seminar is equivalent to taking both Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Nutrition and Eating for Healing classes, and the Tai Chi Seminar is the same as Tai Chi(24 Form)/Qi Gong for Health and Balance class. The Tai Chi Seminar and the Traditional Chinese Medicine and Nutritional Healing Seminar will be offered every other summer in Rochester, NY, alternating with each other.

Provisional and Permanent Certification:

Further classes may be added to the program as the Institute grows and expands. There is no time limit imposed on the certification process. The exams should be taken only when the student feels most ready. To receive certification, each student must successfully meet all the requirements at that time and pass the exams. Repeating a class or an exam may be necessary in some cases at my discretion. After passing the three exams, the student will be provisionally certified for one year. For the next two years after receiving certification, each Therapist will be required to take and pass the practical exam, once each year, to maintain provisional certification. The first practical exam must be taken at the Qi Gong Institute, for the remaining two, other arrangements can be made for those students living too far away from the Institute. After the third practical exam, the Therapist Certification will be permanent.

Note: All information, except the Qi Healers techniques, may be taught and Healing sessions may be provided by any student to others outside the Qi Gong Institute of Rochester without obligation as long as the origin of the material is clearly stated as coming from the Qi Gong Institue of Rochester and Lisa B. O'Shea. That policy changes once a student has committed to becoming Certified. Provisionally and permanently certified students must agree to pay 5% “royalties” from whatever they earn from teaching, performing healing sessions, publications, popularization and/or promotion of any content learned from the Qi Gong Institute of Rochester and its teachers. If the student combines other material into the material learned from the Qi Gong Institute of Rochester, then the percentage of that combined material that is content from the Qi Gong Institute of Rochester is the only part that should be considered in calculated the 5% “royalties.” (Ex. If 50% of a healing session or class that you teach utilizes material from the Qi Gong Institute of Rochester, then you would be required to pay 5% of that 50%). This policy formalizes the interdependent relationship between a Certified student and the school to which they have committed themselves, creating a strong bond of mutual support.

Certified Qi Gong Therapist through the Qi Gong Institute of Rochester

Email: lisachi@frontiernet.net