Karen McNeil is a career instructor in the Healing Arts, including Tai Chi, Qigong, Yoga and Meditation. Active in Southwest Florida since 2005, she has an established private practice in the Naples area. She also shares the benefits of Tai Chi in nature with weekly sessions at the Naples Botanical Garden. Many students know Karen from her years of instruction at the Collier South Regional Library, and at the Naples campus of Florida Gulf Coast University.

Certified by the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, Karen first built her Healing Arts practice in Michigan, founding her own studio, Yoga and the Living Arts. Inspired by a visiting guest Tai Chi master, she expanded her studies to include Tai Chi and Qigong (the cultivation of healing energy flow in the body). Along the way, she completed advanced studies and certification with two internationally recognized master instructors, Dr. Paul Lam and Richard Leirer. In 2017, her journey led her to Wudang, China, where she studied with Master Ming Yue.

Karen has 25 years of experience with Tai Chi and Qigong. This joint discipline evolved over 3,000 to 5,000 years, centering on movements to improve and enhance the body’s life energy and well-being. Harvard Medical School refers to it as “Medication in Motion.”