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Guy Spiro: Jeff, I usually like to start by asking people to tell their story. What did you come through to get where you are now?
Jeff Primack: I began training in Energy Arts, Qigong, in about 1996 or 1997. I was a college student at the University of Florida getting dual degrees, one in Eastern Philosophy and one in Business. During my time there, I studied with a Siberian Shaman who had spent numerous years in a Taoist monastery. She was a Zen Master, could meditate for hours at a time, and had this huge house in Gainesville with no furniture. She had two chairs, one set of dishes and owned basically nothing. She was my first true teacher and she took me under her wing for about two years. She was a professor at
the University, fluent in eleven languages, and was a really amazing human being. She got me on my path initially. But like all great teachers, they kick you out and they say now you’ve got to find your truth. She moved to California.
But I was really craving knowledge in this art form called Qigong. I read a lot of books, but it wasn’t the same. So I went on a quest to find Masters of Qigong. I researched to find who the greatest teachers in the world were, and I would fly them to Florida and arrange seminars with them. I’d get seventy–eighty people in a hotel room for two days with these masters and we would all learn Qigong together. I kind of had a reputation because I wouldn’t bring in anyone who
hadn’t done at least fifty years of practice. I was very picky about who I brought in. Once people started coming to my seminars they realized that everyone I brought in was good. So I didn’t teach in the beginning. I probably didn’t teach my first class until at least five years of training. I was just watching these guys. I brought in masters from China, Canada, Europe, all over the world. After studying intensively with these masters, I designed my own form of Qigong.
GS: Who were you most influenced by?
JP: Paul Dong is definitely somebody I would name. He is the author of the book called Empty Force. Another teacher that I really