San Diego Life Center

At 50 I retired from teaching in the computer industry. Now, at 66 I realize that fat and stress will kill or disable me before my time. I took on the responsibility of Executive Director to force a change in my lifestyle. You will find me sitting in on many activities. I intend to change my life and make a difference in the lives of others.

I lean to new age beliefs, read science fiction, prefer classical music, old masters paintings and conversations in out of the way coffee houses. I am easily flustered, plan lots of free time, think sports are a fine substitute for war, don't mind if you get to the top of the mountain before me and believe puppies are love. After being single for over 20 years, I remarried in 2006. Smart move.

Pam Towne is an accredited T’ai Chi Chih teacher and one of two international Tai Chi Chih trainers..Pam Towne
Pam received so many benefits from her T’ai Chi Chih practice, such as normalizing low blood pressure and increasing energy while cultivating 'serenity in the midst of activity' that she wanted to share T’ai Chi Chih and its benefits with others.

Accredited by Justin Stone in November 1984, Pam has been teaching T'ai Chi Chih ever since. A teacher at heart, she has a Lifetime Secondary Teaching Credential in California. After teaching individualized high school classes in adult education for many years, Pam found her niche in teaching T’ai Chi Chih and has been teaching it full time since 1996.

Over the years Pam has taught T’ai Chi Chih in many different settings: parks and recreation departments, adult education, cancer centers, senior communities, corporations, churches, and spiritual retreats, including the 1993 Science of Mind Conference held just outside of Moscow in Russia.

Pam lead Tai Chi Chih Retreats, Workshops and Teacher Trainings around the world. Her mission is to improve the quality of people’s lives and to contribute to inner and outer peace through sharing Tai Chi Chih.

Doug Drago, Educator

20 years a vegetarian, 90% raw foodist.

Bachelor of Science in Psychology from University of Pittsburgh, Pa.

Studied 8 yrs of qigong and Zen philosophy. Metaphysical healer for 10 years and writer of two books.

Avid artist and sculptor. Works with landscaping and also paints.

Does Chinese astrology for body type.

Jim Kitzmiller, Educator

Jim's analytical side includes a systems engineering and software development background. He holds a bachelor of science degree in engineering from Case Institute of Technology and an M.S. in electrical engineering from Ohio State. He completed the Ph.D. course work in management science at Arizona State. He ran his own computer consulting business for thirty years.

He has been exploring consciousness for forty years. Jim has studied and utilized more than fifty different spiritual / self-help methodologies.

His guided meditations have had over a half million plays on YouTube. His observer meditations help the meditator quickly step out of the false self and operate as the observer. The Divine Essence meditations take it a step further and help the meditator recognize and identify with Divine Essence.

His book Rocket Fuel for the Soul - Blissercise Self-Help Manual contains over 400 blissercises (bliss exercises) that invite the consciousness explorer to look at things in different ways. This can rapidly bring the participant to a state of bliss.

Whenever I do this meditation, I have tears streaming down my face. I weep with the beauty of the potential that this feeling could bring love to the world. I imagine people I have difficulty tolerating (like George W) doing this or being surrounded by this love (I imagine a mother's love) and I just convert it to "God's" love. It's the most powerful organic thing in the world.

Tim Gearan

Jim's novel Duke Blisser and the Meditating Marines describes an imaginary meditation training of marines at Camp Pendleton. It takes the reader inside a meditation training workshop and serves an example of bliss writing. Bliss writing is a form of stream of consciousness story writing that quickly elevates the mood and creativity level of the writer. It makes writers block a thing of the past.

Jim recently served as the North San Diego County Municipal Liaison for National Novel Writing Month. This is an event where people write a 50,000 word novel in the month of November.

Jim's workshops help you live life as the observer and with recognition of Divine Essence in yourself, everyone, and everything.