Joel is a diverse instructor with life-long history in yoga and martial arts. His formal yoga training and later certification (2002) started with the Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health in December of 1999. There he was intensively immersed in the study and practice of Tantric Hatha Yoga under the guidance of Yoganand Michael Carroll. In 2006 Joel studied Yang Tai Chi and a hard style of martial art called Jow Ga Kung Fu with American master Sifu Derek Johnson. Over the years Joel has had the pleasure of studying Tai Chi and Qi Gong from many great teachers including Sifu Yang Yang who works with the Mayo Clinic to catalog the health benefits of Qi Gong and Tai Chi and developed his own training program on Evidence-Based Tai Chi & Qi Gong. Integrating his many practices Joel earned his master level Reiki certification in 2010.