Author, lecturer and natural health educator, Michael Blate has spent most of his life researching and sharing acupressure and other "self-health" methods and traditional spiritual teachings from around the world. Michael has a special gift for presenting complex teachings in a straightforward, practical and easy-to-use format. He has written dozens of books and teaching guides to help people become more healthy, self-reliant and spiritually attuned.

In the early 1970's, at a time when acupressure was all but unknown in the West,  Michael developed the system known as G-Jo Acupressure which is based on the Ah-Shi or tender point system of acupuncture. G-Jo is a simple but profoundly effective system of acupuncture which may be used with needles or fingertips.

Michael’s first book, pubished in 1978 — The Natural Healer's Acupressure Handbook — introduced this easy, effective technique to the US. Since then, G-Jo Acupressure had been taught in classes, workshops, schools, hospitals and universities around the world.

Known to millions as "The Guru of Acupressure," Michael has been a frequent contributor to numerous magazines and has appeared on nearly 2,000 radio and TV talk shows to introduce audiences to the amazing healing powers and spiritual potential lying within each of us.

Michael has been teaching G-Jo Acupressure continuously to health care professionals, martial artists and lay people through The G-Jo Institute, the natural health education organization he established in 1976. He continued to publish books in the field of natural health throughout the 1980's and 90's, and in 1995, Michael created our Master of G-Jo Acupressure Home-Study Certification Program. Since then, we have certified nearly 4,000 students from all walks of life.

Since 2002, Michael has been an approved continuing education provider by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork. He is also a Certified Master Acupressure Instructor with the Natural Therapies Certification Board.

Michael has been listed in a number of Who's Who publications and you may view his biography for one on the Marquis Who's Who in America web page: www.marquiswhoswho.net/michaelblate/. 

Unfortunately their listing has not been updated since we left Florida in 1998. The G-Jo Institute is now located in western North Carolina where Michael is still very much involved in the process of educating the world about acupressure and other natural, self-health techniques, as well as Eastern spiritual thought.