Wendy Newstadt is a qigong teacher and a shiatsu therapist. She studied qigong with Grandmaster Nan Lu in New York while studying and graduating as a shiatsu therapist from Ohashi Institute of Shiatsu in New York in 1997. She has been a shiatsu therapist and teacher since then and is currently teaching qigong in Johannesburg. Wendy is also a trained dance teacher and she incorporates elements of dance into qigong classes.