About Healer Within Foundation

The Healer Within Foundation Mission

Healer Within Foundation advances community-based Qigong/Tai Chi and other self-healing, body-mind-spirit practices through collaborations with individuals and organizations, to sponsor trainings, community practice groups and research.

Our Vision

A world of self-healing, wellness and vitality.

Spreading Wellness from the Inside Out

The Healer Within Foundation’s programs empower people using medically proven self-care practices that effectively support disease prevention, accelerate healing, and decrease unnecessary mental and physical suffering.

TaiChiEasy

Currently our largest program is Tai Chi Easy™, an “evidence based” program using gentle movement, breath practice, self‐applied massage, and meditation.

Trained Tai Chi Easy™ Practice Leaders support end-users in lowering risk for preventable chronic diseases, improving sleep problems, managing pain, speeding rehabilitation, reducing depression and anxiety, assisting in recovery from addiction, and more.

Hundreds of individual donors and organizations recognize our efforts and have collaborated with us, among them:

Center for Integrative Health Medicine and Research (founding grant)
National Council on Aging
American Society on Aging
National Wellness Institute
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Arizona
Archstone Foundation
The Regional Housing Authority of Santa Barbara
Esalen Institute, Big Sur California
Omega Institute, New York
Santa Barbara Community College
Santa Barbara College of Oriental Medicine
Cottage Hospital, Santa Barbara

History

The Healer Within Foundation was founded in 2003 and is an IRS 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in Santa Barbara, California.

Read more about the roots of our current activities and projects in the Healer Within Foundation Condensed History 2003-2012 (PDF)