Masakazu Ikeda
Masakazu Ikeda Sensei has devoted his life to the study of traditional medicine. Across some thirty-five books and fifty years of lecturing and teaching, he has become one of the foremost living transmitters of the classical constitutional system — integrating meridian therapy acupuncture with Kampō herbal medicine, all grounded in the Nan Jing, Su Wen, Ling Shu and Shang Han Lun.
His writings map constitution, pulse, abdomen, formula and point into a single coherent clinical method — a lifetime's work of returning to the classics and proving them in practice.
Andrew Fraser is a long-term student of Ikeda Sensei. It is his integration of needle and herb, root and branch, that forms the backbone of the Sage Medicine curriculum.
Patrick Kelly
A senior student of Huang Sheng Shyan — himself a student of Cheng Man Ching and so of Yang Cheng Fu — Patrick Kelly is among the foremost Western teachers of the internal side of Taijiquan. His work joins the soft, relaxed power of the Huang lineage to a rigorous meditative path: deep relaxation (song), refined sensing, and the cultivation of awareness beneath movement.
Andrew Fraser studied Tai Chi and meditation with Patrick Kelly. That training in listening, yielding, and sensing qi from within is the internal ground the physician brings to the pulse and the needle — the same art, held still.
Ranjit Maharaj
Ranjit Maharaj was a teacher of Advaita — non-dual self-realisation — in the Navnath Sampradaya, the lineage that also produced his teacher's contemporary Nisargadatta Maharaj. His teaching pointed directly at the recognition of one's true, unchanging nature beneath all experience: simple, direct, and free of ritual or doctrine.
Ranjit Maharaj was Andrew Fraser's first teacher — they met in 1998. That first pointing toward what does not change underlies everything studied since, the ground beneath the needle, the herb, and the pulse.
— Yanagiya Sorei