Amy Pattee Colvin

Amy Pattee Colvin is a somatic educator who teaches qigong, meditation and compassion practices for capable, driven people whose nervous systems are stuck in overdrive. She blends neuroscience, compassion training and Taoist movement to help people settle an overactive mind, release physical holding patterns and restore vitality, moving from force to flow.

Her fascination with the mind-body connection began in childhood, when she watched her father use hypnosis and creative imagery to help her heal from scrapes. Her qigong path began in the mid-1990s. For nearly 30 years she has studied under Leong Tan, and she teaches Sum Faht® Meditation and forms he developed. She says that at her first Sum Faht® workshop she felt she was home. In 2011 she began teaching qigong and meditation classes at Google's offices in Washington state, streaming to 16 cities around the world. In 2013 she trained at Stanford University's CCARE (Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education) and became a certified teacher of Compassion Cultivation Training.

Amy is the author of Cultivating Compassion: Simple Everyday Practices for Discovering Peace of Mind and Resilience, and has written Embodying the Tao. She also writes articles on qigong and somatic regulation. Her classes are accessible and beginner-friendly. They typically include flowing warm-ups, standing qigong forms and a seated compassion mudra series she developed to cultivate self-compassion.

Her offerings include weekly online qigong, online courses and coaching, including the BodyMind IntelliSense Transformation System, and small-group international somatic tours with daily qigong and meditation. She describes herself as an unshakable optimist and lifelong learner who walks the path beside her students rather than from a mountaintop.