Teja Bell
Teja Bell (Fudo Myoo Rōshi 老師) is a lineage dharma teacher and Rinzai Zen master, the 84th ancestor of Lin-Chi I-Chuan's Chan lineage. He is a 6th degree Black Belt in Aikido and a life-long practitioner and teacher of Chinese Internal Arts and Qigong. Teaching Internationally (in China and Europe), Teja integrates meditation, and dharma, with qigong/neigong's somatic skills as embodied mindfulness. He conducts teacher trainings and in-depth practice sessions along with regular online classes and has taught over 150 retreats at Spirit Rock Meditation Center since 1999. Teja is committed to the lifelong pursuit and mastery of these evolving teachings and disciplines, and to the ethical and empowering communication and transmission of their essential qualities, for universal benefit.
Featured Audio Talk
July 11, 2017 - Qigong Dharma, Metta and Awakening
We know ourselves as physical beings, mental beings, and emotional beings, but we’re also energetic beings. This life force moving through us, whether we call it prāṇa, or qi, or bioelectrical energy, has an innate and built-in intelligence. That which animates our life also connects right into the life of the universe itself. So when we practice in this way, we’re practicing a very deep and profound meditation—a direct connection to the universe. Internal practices like Yoga and Qigong support us to relax and release through the body to allow this natural flow of energetic being to take place.