Centered Heart was founded in the USA in 1990 by Greg DiLisio M.Ac. The business is now based in Zürich, Switzerland and Greg leads lectures and workshops internationally. Greg was born in 1962 and raised in America. He has more than 12 years experience teaching yoga and directing programs at Kripalu Center, the biggest yoga center in North America. He has a 500 hour Professional Level Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training Certificate, a 200 hour Ananda Yoga Teacher Training Certificate, and has studied with many of the best teachers from other yoga traditions.
As a healer, Greg holds a Masters of Acupuncture from the New England School of Acupuncture, is a Licensed Acupuncturist in the State of Massachusetts and in Switzerland and is TCM Herbalist. He a member of the Swiss professional organization, SBO-TCM, and lectures at the Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Winterthur.
Greg currently practices an array of modalities in one-on-one healing sessions at LABO SPA (www.labospa.ch) , rated the # 1 Urban Spa in Switzerland. These modalities include Facial Acupuncture, Deep-tissue Massage, Classic Swedish Massage, Aromatherapy, Ponklai, Tong Mae Kong, Shiatsu, Table Shiatsu, and Foot Reflexology.
Greg holds a TEFL certificate and enjoys substitute teaching English, his mother tongue, in a communicative, interactive style in Hull's School, Zurich Switzerland (www.hullschool.ch).
Greg has lived in Findhorn and traveled extensively in India, Japan, China and Thailand. He graduated with honors from Cornell University Arts and Sciences School as a Geology Major. He was a Oceanographer working for the U.S. Geological Survey in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, before he began developing Centered Heart.
Greg is featured in the 60 minute DVD titled: Qigong and Tai Chi, Following Movement in Nature. This DVD, re-mastered from the original VHS, is endorsed by Ken Cohen, author of "The Way of Qigong", and "Taoism: Essential Teachings". "It is hard to tell who is flowing more smoothly and gracefully--the water or Greg. This video can help you embody nature and nature's healing energies. It is easy to follow and a joy to watch."
Greg is an associate of the "Magic Tortoise School of Taijiquan" (www.magictortoise.com) and has trained extensively with Dr. Jay Dunbar, senior student of the late Grandmaster Jou Tsung Hua. Greg teaches Yang Style Taiji, San Shou and Push Hands. He has also trained with numerous other Taiji masters, including Master Yang Yang, a highly regarded Chen Style master, author, and researcher of the kinesiology of Taiji (www.centerfortaiji.com) .
Currently, Greg is highly dedicated to his Teacher Training with Master Yang Yang and assists him in teaching his programs at Kripalu Center (www.kripalu.org). Greg practices Master Yang's Chen Style 48 Form and his Evidenced-Based Taiji and Qigong Curriculum daily.
Greg's depth of knowledge and passion to champion his students and patients vitality through health and healing, physical fitness, mental discipline, and spiritual strength, is apparent in every class he teaches and session he gives.
Experience Centered Heart. You are sure to enhance your mind/body/spirit!
Centered Heart
Zürich, Switzerland, phone 078 906 4427
Massachusetts, USA
diodio1@gmail.com
www.mycenteredheart.com
