Chris & Parisa Shelton own and operate the Morning Crane Healing Arts and Fitness Center in beautiful downtown Willow Glen, a district in San Jose, CA. Our vision is to offer a healing space and environment that spreads across the world. We explore various avenues of health and wellness. We have an elite staff of experts from various fields. Our mission is to offer health related services for people who want to eliminate pain, get fit, and stay healthy.
Our services benefit our customers by improving their health, decreasing their pain, and we have given our community a space for gatherings. We are looking for people who love living!
Chris Shelton
, MQT
Christopher J. Shelton, M.Q.T. (Medical Qigong Therapist), has the gift of healing. He is know for the remarkable results he achieves with his clients. His passion is to watch people’s transformations through the use of Qigong. He founded Morning Crane Healing Arts Center in 2000, and started his practice as a healer of the internal arts in 1988. Christopher is also a Tai Chi Sifu. He has won many awards including the Grand Championship for the 2010 Tiger Claw Competition. He has been in Kung Fu Magazine numerous times. Due to the outstanding results his clients have experienced he has been interviewed by Showtime, UFC, NBC Sports, San Jose Local TV, Vietnamese TV, and more. When he is not in the clinic he enjoys MMA, Kickboxing, drawing, and spending time with his family.
Parisa F Shelton
, BA, FAFS
Parisa’s life purpose is to help people learn about their mind, body, and spirit through movement. In 2007 her love of Pilates persuaded her to leave her high-tech sales job for a career in movement and mind-body fitness. She partnered with Chris and Morning Crane, Inc in 2010. Together they created P-FiT Pilates and Functional Fitness. Parisa holds a California Message Therapy License (CAMTC), and studied under Gary Gray as a 2010 GIFT Fellow. She is certified as a Personal Trainer by the American Council on Exercise, and completed an AA degree in Massage Therapy from De Anza College after she graduated from UC Santa Cruz where she played NCAA water polo. She completed her comprehensive Pilates certification with Peak Pilates classical method. Parisa has progressed her classical roots to the next level by incorporating current applications of exercise science and biomechanics. Her goal is to facilitate healing through movement!
Katheryne Tobin-James, CMT
Katheryne Tobin-James is a Certified Holistic Health Practitioner. She is a licensed Massage Therapist, intuitive researcher, Wave Maker Coach, Ion Cell Cleanse & Detox Practitioner & Clinical Aromatherapist. Since 1999 Katheryne has practiced treating physical, emotional and mental stress by combining body work methods of natural hands on healing, wholistic remedies, breathwork with the focus of lifting her clients health and wellness to a whole new level. Beyond massage therapy she will creatively customize each treatment to reach your individual need for renewal, vitality and personal awareness!
Mizarah
May has been dancing Middle Eastern Bellydance since September of 2001. She attended a community bellydance class out of curiousity and became hooked on the music, costumes and dance. She since learned to dance to various genres of bellydance such as egyptian cabaret, middle eastern ethnic, American middle eastern and Spanish gypsy/flamenco bellydance. Since learning the styles of bellydance, she has been able to dance with various bellydance teachers and troupes in Michigan and in California’s South Bay such as: Southwest Michigan School of Middle Eastern Dance with Joette Sawall, Sisters of the Temple Moon with Saiqua, Daughters of the Oasis and currently dances with the troupe Raks al Khalil with Khajulah and taking classes with Jizan. Her stage name is Mizarah and she welcomes the opportunity to share the art of bellydance with you and hope you will find this a special joy in your heart as she has in hers. May is also a California State Certified Massage Therapist. She currently takes classes with Chris in the Medical Qi Gong Therapist Program here at Morning Crane Healing Arts Center.
Kim Allen
Kim Allen’s qi gong and tai chi practice is inspired by harmony with nature. She teaches these practices as a support for sound health, individual development, and daily-life awareness. Her own cultivation also includes insight meditation. Educated in both science and sustainability, Kim also works as an environmental and organizational consultant.
Jennifer Day
Jennifer is the resident technical support and graphic artist and is in charge of keeping Morning Crane running smoothly. You can find her at the front desk, she is always ready and willing to help you meet your goals in fitness and health!
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