Geo Kuffner is a devoted healing arts practitioner and writer with a great passion for creative culture.  A Qigong and Chi Nei Tsang (Gut and Organ Health) Instructor, Somatic Movement Rehab expert and longtime Thai style Bodyworker, Geo weaves movement, breath, inner energy cultivation and playfulness into his sessions, Qigong classes and trainings. 

Geoff is internationally certified by the American Society of the Alexander Technique (AmSat), the Chi Nei Tsang Institute and the Traditional Medicine Hospital of Thailand. He has trained in Thailand, Burma, Nepal and India and taught in Auroville, India; Bali, Indonesia; San Francisco, CA; Pittsburgh, PA, upstate New York at Omega Institute, and, currently has his practice based in New York City. 

Geoff studied medical qigong with Joel Proctor of Sacred Tree, Master Gilles Marin of TaoTouch, Grandmaster Alex Feng (including a marvelous Five Animals Play Qigong form) and various teachers in the Hun Yuan Qigong system. He studied Thai Massage with Nephyr Jacobsen of the Naga Center in Oregon. And Tibetan Yoga and meditation with Dr. Nida Chenagtsang among others. Geo recently completed a six month solo meditation retreat living in a forest hut that turned into two years of land stewardship due to the pandemic. He is currently working on a book– Three Medicines, Five Powers– that weaves traditional and cutting edge medicine into a framework for holistic 21st century healing of individuals and society.

and a few more personal details on the journey….

Born in New York’s Hudson Valley, Geo has a degree in philosophy from Wake Forest and studied literature at Oxford University in England.

He was a founder of the Ransom Corp. Performance Collective in New York City and has long been involved in creative direction and production for arts events. He brings to his private practice and workshops a background in athletics (baseball, football, basketball, long distance running and track), performance (dance, poetry, master of ceremonies), creative writing, housepainting and the meditative arts. Through applying the Alexander Technique and Chi Nei Tsang, he recovered from chronic back pain, the impacts of typhoid fever and longstanding imbalances from four surgeries during his teens–two abdominal and two on his legs. He continues to train and evolve, exploring athletic rehab progressions and amazing somatic work on gait and embryology from Anatomy in Motion, Bodymind Centering and others.