MogaDao

Sacred Somatics

& Socioerotic Ontology

The MogaDao Teachers

currently certified (2020)

(In order of MogaDao certification seniority.)

MogaDao is a transmissional practice tradition, meaning that the vast arc and intersection of knowledge, spirit, and embodiment that is MogaDao is represented not in forms of information alone but in the MogaDao teachers themselves. Therefore, teacher certification in the current tradition of MogaDao is an extraordinarily rigorous process.

Individuals who are MogaDao teachers bear naturally various aspects of the ETHEA of the tradition through the devotion of their study and continued personal practice. For a MogaDao teacher is a cross-section of many different archetypes, and to offer this work to the world is to exist as a unique example of existential intersectionality, weaving the worlds of spirit, health, movement, art, intellection, emotion, and wisdom into a recognizable transmission.

MogaDao's Daoshen are the leaders of the tradition, the lineage bearers who embrace, nourish, protect, abet, and carry the spirit or zeitgeist of the entire tradition as a sacred vocation. As such they are the most comprehensively certified MogaDao teachers. All MogaDao teachers are teachers of the ETHEA, one or more of the Ethos Programs of MogaDao, which programs are thematic concentrations of human care that these teachers have decided to focus upon as their vocation.

The MogaDao teacher training program is a rigorous, 2-year low residency program. (2021 teacher training details will be arriving soon on this website). Because MogaDao is an international practice community, with a living founder and a living tradition, MogaDao teachers are required to re-certify and/or to attend a programmatic study of continued education every two or three years, depending on one's certifications. In this way, anyone seeking the work of MogaDao can rest assured that the teachers listed below are up-to-date with Zhenevere Sophia Dao's latest teachings in Post-Daoism and in step with the highest refinements of the vast vocabulary of MogaDao forms and practices.

Daoshen Sunny Smyth

Sunny Smyth is a Daoshen (meaning “blade of a sword”) and is one of three lineage carriers in the MogaDao tradition. She began her intensive study with Zhenevere Dao in 2011 and has attended, with very few exceptions, every class and intensive that Zhen has taught since that time, holding the unique position of having trained for more hours with the founder than any other student.

She is certified to teach Ethos Programs 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, which comprises all the existing codified forms and practices of MogaDao Qigong, MogaDao Depth Sexuality and the Erotic Basis of Being, MogaDao Yoga and MogaDao Meditation within the framework of Post-Daoist philosophy. Her background includes 6 years of offering this work full-time at Life Healing Center in Santa Fe, a residential treatment center for behavioral health, trauma, and addiction, and three years at Christus St. Vincent Holistic Health and Wellness Center, specifically working with individuals navigating health challenges.

Sunny has been on the staff of the MogaDao Institute since 2013 as the Business Manager and part of the “think tank” of the tradition. She currently teaches weekly classes online and in person, mentors students and teachers privately, and offers in-depth trainings on the journey from trauma to sexual vitality as well as the exquisite beauty of sexuality and aging.

For more information on Sunny and to register for her classes, please visit her website.

Daoshen Nikesha Breeze

Nikesha Breeze is one of three Daoshen (lineage bearers) of the tradition of MogaDao. Nikesha is certified in every techne of the tradition of MogaDao. Nikesha trains both students and teachers in the tradition and maintains a Northern branch of the MogaDao Institute in Taos NM. Nikesha currently teaches MogaDao and Post-Daoist Philosophy in workshops and classes nationally and internationally. Nikesha’s work as a DaoShen focuses on POC and LGBTQIA+ communities and seeks to bring the depth of MogaDao’s expansive Post-Daoist teachings to a wider audience with marginalized environments. Alongside teaching MogaDao, Nikesha is also an accomplished Visual and Performance Artist working within the history and reclaimed narrative of the African Diaspora.

Daoshen Thomas Jaggers

I began my study of qigong and Traditional Chinese Medicine in the mid-90’s in the U.K. I met Zhen Dao in early 2012 and have been studying, practicing and teaching intensively ever since. I am certified in all levels of MogaDao Qigong and in Sacred Sexuality. I teach regular qigong classes in Santa Fe, and have taught workshops on MogaDao Qigong and MogaDao Sacred Sexuality around the USA and internationally. I offer regular online Qigong courses, and am also available for one-on-one sessions in Qigong and Sacred Sexuality. Since 2016, I have been leading workshops for men in the USA and in Europe to support us to embody the true masculine, each in our own unique form, and thereby help heal the world and our society. I have been on the staff of the MogaDao Institute since 2013, and, finally, am also a player in the SACRA Immanence Theater troupe.

truemasculine.org

Eve Bradford is honored to be a teacher and carrier of the Mogadao Practice Lineage, an immense body of teachings that have utterly transformed her life and work as an educator, artist, activist and ritualist. She is also a staff member of the Mogadao Institute and a player in the SACRA Immanence Theater troupe, currently training deeply to be voice and vessel for Ophelia in the upcoming production of Hamlette & Ophelia, an original play by Zhen Dao. Eve is certified in ETHOS 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 and currently teaches online both in daily drop-in classes and focused longer term thematic courses. She has also been a long time contributor to west-coast underground culture, and offers the work at carefully chosen gatherings and private retreats. Additionally, Eve works one-on-one with private clients both in-person and online, utilizing the Mogadao Teachings as well as a lifetime cultivation of counseling, ritual arts and oracular technologies to develop customized personal practices that call upon the full capacity of our most authentic selves in service of full-spectrum health, liberated embodiment, radical expression and deeply rooted ecstasy.

Jaye Marolla moved to Santa Fe in April of 2017 to study with Zhen Dao and gain teaching certification in the expansive modalities of MogaDao. With years of Qigong, Thai Bodywork, Martial Arts and Improvisational Dance experience, Jaye brings a wide breadth of somatic exploration to her teaching. The atmosphere is one of deep inquiry, unique transmission and reverent holding for the sacred practices of the MogaDao lineage. Please visit Jaye's website for further information on weekly classes in Santa Fe and future workshops.

Carl Baccellieri

I began studying MogaDao in 2015 with Sarah Byrden. In 2018 I moved to Santa Fe to immerse myself in the practice and philosophy of post-Daoism during the final semesters of Zhen’s in-person semester-based teachings at the Institute. I am certified to lead group classes and individual sessions in The Hieratic Stance Series, 3 Pillars Qigong, Morning Medical Qigong, and the Essential Yin and Essential Yang Qigong forms. My approach emphasizes authenticity, awareness, imagination, embodiment and the direct experience of our essential goodness. Students learn to cultivate these precious resources in the service of what they value most. Along with teaching, I work as a contemplative psychotherapist and leadership coach.

I found MogaDao in 2017, following a series of open doors to New Mexico. I had not yet heard of the MogaDao tradition, but was actively praying for a somatic-based, spiritually-minded community with whom to train. I stepped into a martial arts class, called Jingshen Gongfu in the MogaDao tradition, and knew I had found my calling. For the last three years I have trained extensively with Zhen Dao in MogaDao Yoga, MogaDao Qigong, Jingshen Gongfu,, and MogaDao Meditation. Her radical application of 5 Realms Theory began to inform my existing yoga practice of 15 years, as both traditional and original asanas became enriched with elemental relationships and diagnostic applications, providing an incredible architecture from which to practice and teach. Off the mat I work as a home scale organic farmer, herbalist, wholistic chef, and bodyworker, bringing a saturation of grounded energy,and open hearted presence to my clients and the practice space. I am currently one of the few MogaDao teachers certified as an Integral MogaDao Yoga teacher (certified in all applications of MogaDao Yoga). I am one of the six MogaDao teachers chosen to teach at the MogaDao Institute for the fall semester of 2020. Offerings in La Madera, NM, and online begin Fall of 2020.

I was introduced to MogaDao during a talk by Sarah Byrden, a first generation MogaDao teacher, in 2016. It was the most life-affirming hour of my life to that day. I studied everything Sarah offered, studied with Zhen Dao when possible, and finally moved to Santa Fe in March of 2019 to immerse myself in study with Zhen Dao at the MogaDao Institute. I am honored to be a carrier of the MogaDao tradition, as well as a player in the SACRA Immanence Theater troupe, an experimental theater company affiliated with MogaDao and directed by Zhen Dao. My nearly 40 years of movement exploration through dance, athletics, yoga and somatic study inform both my practice and teaching. I teach MogaDao Qigong both online and in person in Ashland, Oregon. In addition to teaching, I am a board-certified Functional Medicine Practitioner, helping individuals one-on-one both in person and online. Please email amyrxbaker@gmail.com for more information.