ABOUT JOHN C NEUBAUER
John C Neubauer (75), innovator and master teacher of Tai Chi Yoga, began practicing Hatha Yoga daily in 1973 after friends recommended that it might help ease debilitating leg cramps from playing college basketball. It actually cured the leg cramps within a few weeks of beginning and they never returned, plus his hair stopped falling out and still hasn’t turned gray. His clumsiness turned into grace from mastering one-legged balances.
THE JOURNEY
John learned yoga from Maja Trigg (Louisville, Kentucky) and Swami Vishnudevananda’s camp (the Bahamas). He was also certified by Ms. Trigg in 1974 to teach yoga. His yoga was additionally influenced by the writings of B.K.S. Iyengar.
But yoga alone never got the tension in his shoulders to go away. Then another friend recommended Tai Chi. Within months of learning the flow of Tai Chi, the shoulder tension melted away and never returned.
He first learned Tai Chi (Wu-style) in 1976 from Kevin Akers (Louisville) and Gia-Fu Feng (in the French Alps). His Tai Chi was later influenced by Master Cheng Lu (Yang-style, Salt Lake City) and Master Alfred Huang (Wu-style, Maui).
John started teaching yoga in 1974, taking over ownership and management for a few years of Yoga East in Louisville, Kentucky. He began practicing Tai Chi daily in 1976. He blended the two into a single art form in 1977, which he has practiced and taught since then.
His daily practice consists of a 60-minute morning routine and a 45-minute evening routine of Tai Chi Yoga™, meditation, scripture study, and prayer. In the past 49 years, he has only missed a few days of practice due to hospitalizations.
He has instructed thousands around the world in Tai Chi Yoga™ over the past 40 plus years. In 1977, for example, he taught students in France, Germany, and Denmark as well as a ballet company in Munich. The owner of the ballet company was ecstatic with the results because his dancers flowed more naturally from the inside.
THE CONTENT
In 1976, John produced and published a 2-record teaching album and poster called “Yoga in Nature.” In 1999. he produced and published “Tai Chi Yoga – A Unique Teaching Package.“ In 2009, he recorded “Power of Tai Chi Yoga,“ a 12-week audio lesson plan for weight loss and anti-aging. That same year, he filmed “My Daily Tai Chi Yoga Routines,“ a collection of the four daily routines he practices each week. In 2011, he authored and published a 150-page eBook called THE POWER OF TAI CHI YOGA: Ancient Principles for Modern-Day Healing, Living, and Weight Loss. It was recently updated with a new epilogue in 2021. In 2022, he filmed for the online members individual “how-to” videos of each of his Tai Chi Yoga™ movements. In June of 2023, THE POWER OF TAI CHI YOGA, will be released at Amazon.com.
JOHN’S BACKGROUND
John was born in 1948 and raised on a farm outside Pontiac, Illinois. He was a high-school valedictorian (Saunemin, Illinois). He graduated with honors and has an accounting degree from Drake University in Des Moines (1970). John is an accomplished executive and consultant with 40+ years of experience in developing and managing innovative, complex projects. He has overseen the development of $42 million of commercial and industrial developments as well as secured hundreds of millions of capital for projects He is currently chief executive officer of John Neubauer, Inc (www.johnneubauerinc.com) John has been a recipient of multiple Community Betterment awards by the Iowa Governor’s Office and has been showcased in The Journal of Accountancy, The Christian Science Monitor, Success Magazine, and many feature stories in The Des Moines Register, the Business Record (Des Moines), and radio and television interviews. He is an elder in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (www.churchofjesuschrist.org). John’s hair is still its natural brown with a few strands of silver, never having had a drop of hair color touch it. He still weighs the same 180-185 lbs. as in his college basketball-playing days with Drake University.
JOHN’S LEGACY
Now at age 75, John is focused on leaving a legacy by building Tai Chi Yoga into a worldwide undertaking that brings greater joy into the lives of millions.