Felix de Haas (NL)

Felix de Haas has 40 years of experience in East Asian Medicine. He studied acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine with some important teachers including Francois Ramakers, Bob Flaws, Stephen Birch, Yanagishita sensei, Sensei, Takai Sensei, Dan Bensky, Charles Chace and Volker Scheid.
Next to having two clinics in the Netherlands he is also teaching different aspects of East Asian Medicine. He transmits Engaging Vitality along with Dan Bensky and the European team. He also teaches in subjects like the historical and philosophical backgrounds of East Asian Medicine. He has a special focus on approaches in East Asian Medicine which are palpation based.
Next to this, he has a life long interest in Asian meditation systems. Especially Buddhist and Daoist practices. He studied long time with important teachers from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition including his main teacher H.H. Sakya Trizin (41st). The last decade he has delved deeply into Neidan. His interest in this field was already generated in his father’s library. After encountering Engaging Vitality and having intensive interaction with Charles Chace, he was stimulated to delve even much more deep into this material.
Neidan remains from all Asian contemplative traditions the most obscure, since many of the works are written in code language and one needs oral instructions of a teacher. Since the last 2 decades there has been increasing academic research in the field, but it remains not easy to find living teachers who are willing to share their knowledge and experience. Felix had the opportunity to study and collaborate intensively with Robert Coons in the last 5 years. Robert himself studied Neidan for a longer period with several Chinese masters, mainly Master Hai Yang, who himself studied with the former Abbot of the White Cloud Temple in Beijing and many great Neidan masters in China. His inspiration is partly based on reformers from the Republican period, like Chen Yingning. This approach to Neidan is more secular oriented. Felix has started to teach also Neidan to serious students more recently.