About Us

The BodyMind Center is a private educational community resource for personal growth and alternative healing. the Center primarily offers the study of movement and perception, exploring how these core topics can advance individual development of alertness, clarity of thought, increased conscious awareness, and grace in movement.

Horacio Lopez, Director of BodyMind Center
Since 1975, Horacio Lopez has studied Tai Chi Chuan and Chi Kung with world-renowned teachers including William C.C. Chen, Kuo Lien Ying, Bruce K. Frantzis; Grand Masters Yang Zhenduo and Wang Peisheng and currently-year 2008- with Shifu Zhan Yun.

With youthful enthusiam for learning, Horacio began a journey that took him around the world in pursuit of studies to understand the roots of perception, consciousness, insight, and spirit, largely through art expressed in conscious movement - Tai Chi Chuan, dance, and active meditation. In his travels, he undertook personal studies with some of the most important teachers of the 20th Century including Luba Gurdjieff, Moshe Feldenkrais, David Bohm, Jidu Krishnamurti, and Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh). READ MORE

Diane Lopez, R.M.T., is Horacio's life partner and assists the Center with a variety of program services. She is a RRegistered Massage Therapist, and also is certified as a Touch for Health Instructor. Jacqi Crow, long-time student and apprentice, is a R.M.T., massage therapy instructor, and teaches Beginning Tai Chi Chuan, Intro Chi Kung, and basic form correction. READ MORE