Chungliang Al Huang is the founder-president of Living Tao Foundation and the director of Lan Ting Institute. An internationally recognized Tai Ji master and authority of East/West cultural synthesis, he has been a research fellow at the Academia Sinica and a member of the World Academy of Art and Science. He is the author of the bestselling classic Embrace Tiger, Return to Mountain, and Quantum Soup: Fortune Cookies in Crisis, and coauthor with Alan Watts of Tao: The Watercourse Way.

Jerry Lynch, PhD, counseling psychologist and international speaker, is also a corporate consultant and author of several books, including Living Beyond Limits and, with Chungliang Al Huang, Thinking Body, Dancing Mind.