Lok-Kwan Cheng
CP, Dipl. OM, L. Ac.
"Lok-Kwan" means "happily serving the people". It is the name his parents gave him.
Lok Kwan Cheng is an AOBTA Certified Practitioner (CP) with private practices in Chicago and Evanston and has taught shiatsu at the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine, and as a guest lecturer at SOMA institute and Olympia College. He has a Bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Wisconsin and studied photography at the graduate level at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He is a licensed acupuncturist and is board-certified by NCCAOM.
Lok-Kwan was born and grew up in Hong Kong. He started practicing Qigong and Chinese martial arts when he was a teenager.
After he came to the U.S. he continued his internal practice with Master Wai-Lun Choi of Chicago and served as his assistant instructor for many years. In the nineties his tenure as secretary of the Midwest Buddhist Council enabled him to learn and practice meditation closely with monks from different traditions. At the same time he studied with Wataru Ohashi Sensei who taught him everything he knows about shiatsu.
In acupuncture and Oriental medicine he learned from many great contemporary masters in numerous workshops and seminars. He studied auricular acupuncture under the mentorship of Dr. Richard Niemtzow and found kinship and inspiration in the teachings of Jeffrey Yuen and Kiiko Matsumoto.
His aspiration is to live and work in a way that is in harmony with nature. Eschewing modality and stylistic divisions he offers integrated treatments combining acupuncture, herbs and bodywork to achieve the best therapeutic results. When it comes to teaching he is a believer in kinesthetic learning. His workshops are physical and experiential events that aim at translating concepts in Oriental philosophy and medicine into bodily form and movements so that they can be experienced, verified, and confirmed in the body.
