ABOUT WENDY LANG

Name: Breaking Free Into Joy
Author: Dr. Eloecea

Wendy’s mission is to help people awaken their innate capacity for healing, intuition, spiritual vision, wisdom, and real transformation.

For more than 35 years, Wendy has guided students and clients in the healing and intuitive arts. She is an internationally respected teacher, healer, and speaker with deep expertise in Medical Qigong, Shamanic Chinese Medicine, channeling, mediumship, Light Body Meditation, space clearing, and energy healing.

Wendy is the founder and lead teacher of Empty Mountain Institute, where she offers in-depth trainings in Shamanic Chinese Medicine, Medical Qigong, Channeling and Mediumship, Light Body Meditation, and transformational retreats. She has taught the International Institute of Medical Qigong’s three-year practitioner training for over 16 years and has helped thousands of students develop advanced healing skills, intuitive awareness, and spiritual connection.

Her private healing practice includes in-person and distance sessions supporting physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being. She also offers channeled guidance, works with animals, and provides energetic clearings for homes, businesses, and properties.

Wendy’s teaching path began in 1988 with an intensive eight-month retreat at Silent Ground Retreat Center with Minke de Vos. She later became an advanced instructor in the Healing Tao and Universal Tao systems. Her studies include Medical Qigong with Dr. Jerry Alan Johnson beginning in 1998, as well as extensive training in acupressure, bodywork, hypnotherapy, Reiki, meditation, and holistic health.

Since 1996, Wendy has also been a devoted student and teacher of the Orin and DaBen Light Body teachings. She is a member of the advanced Discovery and Seed Groups and serves on the Board of Directors of the Orin DaBen Foundation.

Wendy is also the creator of the Sacred Images of Tibet series, published by Amber Lotus, which helped raise funds for the Tibetan Lama Fund.

Based in San Anselmo, California, Wendy teaches an international community through live online programs, in-person trainings, and retreats. Her work integrates Chinese medicine, energy healing, meditation, channeling, and spiritual development into a practical path of healing, awakening, and embodied higher consciousness.

IN THEIR OWN WORDS

Minke de Vos, Tao Tantric Arts for Women (Inner Traditions, foreword by Mantak Chia): “Thanks to Wendy Lang for teaching the Medical Qigong Training and healing.”

Caroline Kimoto, Disarming Trauma: “A special thank you to my Qigong teacher, Wendy Lang, for her unique and Shamanic-healing-based approach to Medical Qigong Therapy, and for her support on my journey.”

Stephanie Nosco, Follow Your Tao (Hachette): Wendy is acknowledged as Stephanie's Medical Qigong and Shamanic Chinese Medicine teacher.

Dr. Eloecea, Breaking Free Into Joy: Wendy plays a substantial part in one chapter and is acknowledged by name.

MEET OUR TEAM

Get to know the dedicated professionals behind our success.

JOHN WEISS

John F. Weiss teaches the Shamanic Chinese Medicine Practitioner Course with Wendy. He has a Master’s certification in Medical Qigong from the International Institute of Medical Qigong as well as an expressive movement therapy degree from the Tamalpa Institute. John has been immersed in his love of healing movement for more than 20 years and added in energy healing over 10 years ago to deepen his understanding. His passion is to explore and share the wonderful resources and tools that healing energy and movement provide to enrich life and heal body, mind and soul.

SHARON LEES

I have studied Light Body meditation for over 30 years, training with Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer. Since completing the Radiance Transmitting Light teacher’s course in 1993, I’ve been teaching Awakening Your Light Body and related classes. With a background in adult education, I remain an active member of Radiance Transmitting Light Teachers’ groups. Meditation and higher consciousness exploration are my passions, and I’m dedicated to helping others experience the profound transformation this work offers.

Co-founder, PHILLIP WEBER 1956 - 2013

It may seem unusual to have a bio of someone who has passed on. Phillip is extraordinarily present in all the classes. Students comment on how they feel his presence supporting them in their studies and explorations. Phillip was a student of Light Body Meditation for 25 years. He was a part of the original group to explore and develop these energies and skills and was a member of the Advanced Meditation Groups. He taught numerous Light Body meditation and Opening to Channel classes and gave personal channeled sound sessions as well as channeled readings. His teachers in developing skills in meditation were Duane Packer and Sanaya Roman (originators of the Awakening the Light Body).

MEDIA COVERAGE

Valiant cEO

Why Ancient Healing And Wellness Is Finding a Modern Audience

The conversation around health is changing. Around 37% of U.S. adults use complementary or integrative health approaches and spend more than $30.2 billion annually on these interventions, much of it paid out of pocket rather than covered by health insurance. Those figures suggest that whole-person health has become an increasingly important part of the national conversation as more people explore approaches that complement conventional care.

Written by Robert Bloomingfield , Valiant CEO | July 17, 2026

Wellness voice

As more Americans seek a greater role in managing their health, complementary wellness practices such as qigong, meditation, yoga, and mindfulness are gaining wider acceptance alongside conventional medicine. Wendy Lang, founder of Empty Mountain, believes this growing interest reflects a desire for a more holistic understanding of wellbeing rather than a rejection of modern healthcare.

Written by Adam Bent, Wellness Voice | July 17, 2026

An IntervieW with Mystic Mag

Integration of Mind, Body and Spirit

Wendy Lang, founder of Empty Mountain Institute, is a renowned expert and teacher in energy medicine, channeling, mediumship, and space clearing. With over 35 years of experience, Wendy integrates her extensive training in Medical Qigong, Light Body Meditation, and Shamanic Chinese Medicine into her transformative teachings and healing practice.

Written by Sarah Kirton, Content Editor | January 23, 2025

EVENT PRESENTATIONS

Wendy Lang has presented the teachings of Empty Mountain Institute at the following events:

Speaker on Shamanic Healing at the Women of Wisdom Summit | July, 2021

Speaker, Banyen Books, Vancouver, BC | June, 2019

Qigong Medicine Expert, the Second International Conference of Traditional Medicines on Health & Wellness, Burnaby, BC | August, 2018

Speaker, Banyen Books, Vancouver, BC | May, 2018

The Immortal Sisters Conference, Menla Retreat Center, New York | August, 2017

Qigong Medicine Expert, the First International Conference of Traditional Medicines on Health & Wellness, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC | April, 2017