Jim Gallas, CMT, CHT is a certified yoga instructor, a Chi Kung and shiatsu massage teacher and a certified hypnotherapist.

He has been leading inspiring, informative, and fun workshops since 1992. He teaches at Esalen Institute, is a long time staff member and senior instructor at Twin Lakes College of the Healing Arts in Santa Cruz, CA, and a natural health educator at the University of California. He has taught seniors, children, and high risk teenagers, the chronically ill and the vibrantly healthy, corporate hot shots in Silicon Valley and villagers in foreign countries.

Jim is currently working on a series of instructional videos, is a member of a theater improv troupe, a plublished photographer and the past owner of a successful vegetarian restaurant in New Zealand.