About

Joshua J Berry
Joshua was always interested in movement, music, art and the spiritual world ever since he can remember. When he was younger he concentrated on visual art and music, mainly in the form of illustration, painting, guitar and kept his body active with skateboarding. In his mid twenties he experienced some trying times that pushed him to look at his life and what he was contributing to this world. His oldest brother was also diagnosed with Schizophrenia during this time and eventually committed suicide after years of frequent hospitalizations and medications.
This was also a time where he realized he needed to understand how to be healthy in a more balanced way. He started actively studying: Capoeira, Yoga, Qi Gong, Meditation, dance and eastern philosophy. It awoke in him a love he had long since denied. He knew there was more of a connection between his emotional body, spirit, mental patterns and his physical being than he had previously known. He decided to make a change and start on a healing path by attending Massage Therapy School.
For the last 17 years he has studied Qi Gong, Yoga, Taoist Internal Arts and looked deeper into Eastern and Indigenous practices in addition to his bodywork studies. He is interested in healing in all its myriad forms. As he got deeper into the Taoist arts he took his studies further into the art of Tai Ji, Yi Jing (also spelled I Ching) and the shamanic roots of China. His Yogic studies, Taoist studies, Bodywork, Energy work and Shamanic studies all inform each other. He is interested in the common themes and the crossover of various traditions. He has also continues to study the communal Indigenous practices such as the elemental, ancestral, ritual and divination traditions inspired by the Dagara people from Burkina Faso, as well as the various plant medicine traditions of the Amazon of Brazil.
Trainings and Certifications
Bodywork
2019 Currently studying SFMA (Selective Movement Functional Movement Assessment) Prerequisite for level 1 online
2019 CranioSacral Level 1 w/ Kim Painter (Upledger) 25 Hours
2018 Advanced Zero Balancing: Secrets of the Skull with Judith Sullivan 25 Hours
2016 Dermoneuromodulation and Integrated Methods w/ Jeff Rockwell D.C. 12 Hours
2016 Myoskeletal Therapist Certification (Erik Dalton/Freedom From Pain) 80 Hours
2010 Positional Release and the Bowstring with Ed Buresh 18 Hours
2008 Core Zero Balancing 1 &2 w/ David Lauterstein 50 Hours
2008 Advanced Zero Balancing: Alchemy of Touch with Fritz Smith 25 Hours
2007 Chi Nei Tsang level 1& Review w/Jampa Stewart and Shanti Dechen 90 Hours
2006-2007 Lauterstein Conway Massage School 550 Hours
Taoist/Traditional Chinese Medicine/Tai Ji/Qi Gong
2018 Advanced Yi Jing training with Master Yun Xiang Tseng
2012 External Qi Healing (EQH) & Advanced EQH with Master Yun Xiang Tseng 200 Hours
2012 Wu Dang Tai Ji Certification with Master Yun Xiang Tseng
2012 Yi Jing training with Master Yun Xiang Tseng
2011-Present Various Qi Gong and Tai Ji trainings with Master Yun Xiang Tseng
2007- 2010 Various Qi Gong Forms, Traditional Chinese Medicine Theory, Yang StyleTai Ji 24 form, Instructor Certification for The Inner Smile and 6 Healing Sounds w/Jampa Stewart
2009/2010 Tui Na with Yang Xing Fan @ AOMA 12 Hours
Yoga and Movement Training
2019 Lighthouse Yoga Immersion/Asana, Mantra, Meditation, Kriya and Yogic Philosophy w/ Jared Mcann and Henry Winslow (www.lighhouseyogaschool.com) 30 Hours
2019 Dharma and Rocket Yoga Master Classes with Yancy Scot Schwartz 12 Hours
2019 Journey Through From w/ Christina Sell 12 Hours
2018/19 Sacred Geometry Vinyasa and Functional Movement w/ Benjamin Sears 12 Hours
2016-2018 various shorter trainings with Ambra Vallo (www.ambrasana.com), Gil Perez (Rocket Yoga), Jared Mcann (www.lighhouseyogaschool.com), Rose Erin Vaughan (www.scienceofselfytt.com)
2014- Pranayama and Meditation with Chase Bossart (www.yogawell.com) 32 hours
2013-2015 Yoga Yoga Hatha Yoga Teacher Training 200 Hours
2014 Beginning and Intermediate Sequencing Yoga Asana with Christina Sell 30 Hours
2013 Anatomy Trains for Movement Therapists with Carrie Gaynor 18 Hours
African Spirit Medicine (Dagara Tradition of Burkina Faso)
2013-2015 Introduction to African Spirit Technologies with Malidoma Patrice Some:
A 2.5 year program focusing on elemental, ancestral, ritual, divination and talismanic medicine under the guidance of Dagara Elder Malidoma Patrice Some.
Joshua was always interested in movement, music, art and the spiritual world ever since he can remember. When he was younger he concentrated on visual art and music, mainly in the form of illustration, painting, guitar and kept his body active with skateboarding. In his mid twenties he experienced some trying times that pushed him to look at his life and what he was contributing to this world. His oldest brother was also diagnosed with Schizophrenia during this time and eventually committed suicide after years of frequent hospitalizations and medications.
This was also a time where he realized he needed to understand how to be healthy in a more balanced way. He started actively studying: Capoeira, Yoga, Qi Gong, Meditation, dance and eastern philosophy. It awoke in him a love he had long since denied. He knew there was more of a connection between his emotional body, spirit, mental patterns and his physical being than he had previously known. He decided to make a change and start on a healing path by attending Massage Therapy School.
For the last 17 years he has studied Qi Gong, Yoga, Taoist Internal Arts and looked deeper into Eastern and Indigenous practices in addition to his bodywork studies. He is interested in healing in all its myriad forms. As he got deeper into the Taoist arts he took his studies further into the art of Tai Ji, Yi Jing (also spelled I Ching) and the shamanic roots of China. His Yogic studies, Taoist studies, Bodywork, Energy work and Shamanic studies all inform each other. He is interested in the common themes and the crossover of various traditions. He has also continues to study the communal Indigenous practices such as the elemental, ancestral, ritual and divination traditions inspired by the Dagara people from Burkina Faso, as well as the various plant medicine traditions of the Amazon of Brazil.
Trainings and Certifications
Bodywork
2019 Currently studying SFMA (Selective Movement Functional Movement Assessment) Prerequisite for level 1 online
2019 CranioSacral Level 1 w/ Kim Painter (Upledger) 25 Hours
2018 Advanced Zero Balancing: Secrets of the Skull with Judith Sullivan 25 Hours
2016 Dermoneuromodulation and Integrated Methods w/ Jeff Rockwell D.C. 12 Hours
2016 Myoskeletal Therapist Certification (Erik Dalton/Freedom From Pain) 80 Hours
2010 Positional Release and the Bowstring with Ed Buresh 18 Hours
2008 Core Zero Balancing 1 &2 w/ David Lauterstein 50 Hours
2008 Advanced Zero Balancing: Alchemy of Touch with Fritz Smith 25 Hours
2007 Chi Nei Tsang level 1& Review w/Jampa Stewart and Shanti Dechen 90 Hours
2006-2007 Lauterstein Conway Massage School 550 Hours
Taoist/Traditional Chinese Medicine/Tai Ji/Qi Gong
2018 Advanced Yi Jing training with Master Yun Xiang Tseng
2012 External Qi Healing (EQH) & Advanced EQH with Master Yun Xiang Tseng 200 Hours
2012 Wu Dang Tai Ji Certification with Master Yun Xiang Tseng
2012 Yi Jing training with Master Yun Xiang Tseng
2011-Present Various Qi Gong and Tai Ji trainings with Master Yun Xiang Tseng
2007- 2010 Various Qi Gong Forms, Traditional Chinese Medicine Theory, Yang StyleTai Ji 24 form, Instructor Certification for The Inner Smile and 6 Healing Sounds w/Jampa Stewart
2009/2010 Tui Na with Yang Xing Fan @ AOMA 12 Hours
Yoga and Movement Training
2019 Lighthouse Yoga Immersion/Asana, Mantra, Meditation, Kriya and Yogic Philosophy w/ Jared Mcann and Henry Winslow (www.lighhouseyogaschool.com) 30 Hours
2019 Dharma and Rocket Yoga Master Classes with Yancy Scot Schwartz 12 Hours
2019 Journey Through From w/ Christina Sell 12 Hours
2018/19 Sacred Geometry Vinyasa and Functional Movement w/ Benjamin Sears 12 Hours
2016-2018 various shorter trainings with Ambra Vallo (www.ambrasana.com), Gil Perez (Rocket Yoga), Jared Mcann (www.lighhouseyogaschool.com), Rose Erin Vaughan (www.scienceofselfytt.com)
2014- Pranayama and Meditation with Chase Bossart (www.yogawell.com) 32 hours
2013-2015 Yoga Yoga Hatha Yoga Teacher Training 200 Hours
2014 Beginning and Intermediate Sequencing Yoga Asana with Christina Sell 30 Hours
2013 Anatomy Trains for Movement Therapists with Carrie Gaynor 18 Hours
African Spirit Medicine (Dagara Tradition of Burkina Faso)
2013-2015 Introduction to African Spirit Technologies with Malidoma Patrice Some:
A 2.5 year program focusing on elemental, ancestral, ritual, divination and talismanic medicine under the guidance of Dagara Elder Malidoma Patrice Some.
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