ABOUT US
The Cloudwalker Mind/Body Healing System
John Walcott has been training and practicing the mind /body healing arts for over 40 years. As a child, he suffered from chronic asthma. This led him to enroll at a local Chinese Martial and Healing Arts School in New York and healed himself completely. His passion for healing others was ignited and he began studying Chinese, Japanese, West African & Brazilian Martial and Healing Methods over the next 40 years.
John is the founder The Vero Beach Qi-gong Society and the Cloudwalker Mind/Body Healing System, a synthesis of 3 decades of practice. John has created an accessible method of practice which allows the general public to enjoy the healing opportunities available in a multi–modal approach of Qigong & Tai Chi practice. He has taught his methods to individuals of all ages from toddlers to seniors; among them, at-risk youth, immune challenged oncology patients, the chemically dependent in prison programs, Parkinson and Alzheimer patients, and recovering heart patients, just to name a few.
John has had the profound honor to have trained with great instructors among them Grandmaster Alan Lee's Chinese Kung Fu Wu-Su association under Master Harry Kastel, Hanshi William Wendell in Japanese Goju-karate, Master Ulysses Demetrious ”Pop" Winn in American Karate, Grandmaster Frank Ruiz Nisei federation of martial arts. Dr. Jerry Alan Johnson, Dr. Bernard Shannon, Dr. Lisa Van Ostrand, Master Lisa B. O’Shay and the great Isabell Gatto. He was nominated by the Palm Beach County Black Police Officers Association for Citizen of the year, and featured on 1998, Monday cover of the Palm Beach Post and on News Channel 5 due to his work with Inner City Youth at the Whole Body Youth Program; a ten year program blending academics and martial arts resulting in 11 State Champions between 1992 and 1996. He is the 1992 Florida All Stars Fighting Champion and the 1993 Fighting and Forms winner at the West Palm Beach Battle of Champions.
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For more information or questions about any of of our class offerings, please email: john@thecloudwalker.com