Stephen Procter…

Stephen’s journey began from a young age, being fascinated with Meditation and Martial Arts. At 29, Stephen and his wife left everything and started working at Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre, west of Sydney, as live in managers running intensive meditation retreats. In this environment, even while working, they managed to meditate at least eight hours a day and this allowed their meditation practice to progress and become ingrained. Three and a half years later they wanted to do more intensive practice then they could get in Australia. So they went to a monastery in Myanmar (Burma) on a meditation visa and studied under Sayadaw U Kundala, a high level Monk and did an intensive three month silent meditation retreat, sleeping two to four hours a day. At 34, he came into contact with the Australian College of Tai Chi and Qi Gong and began study with Master Sam Li. Following this learning he embarked on teacher training for Tai Chi and Qi Gong, in which he has been teaching for nine years. Today, he enjoys sharing his experience and knowledge with others in classes and one on one sessions, helping others find their ‘centre of peace’.