Welcome.

I'm Joel.

Home baseSan Francisco ♡

I help people feel less pain and recover faster through Qigong energy healing, whether we're in the same room or on Zoom. This is a little home where I share my story and offer whatever help I can, to the people I love and to anyone they love too.

Read my note to you Something hurts? Start here

212sessions, every one written down

70%average pain relief, one session

95%felt less pain, all clients

This page breathes. In for four, out for six. Join me if you like

Dear you,

If this link found its way to you, it's because someone cares about you. Maybe that someone is me.

I do this work because I don't want to watch people hurt longer than they have to, or reach for fixes that can't be undone. What keeps me going is a moment I never get tired of: clients finally feeling relief, and often, those who came in skeptical looking up, surprised and elated. I've seen it with old friends and with complete strangers, and it moves me every single time.

Wander a little, read a few of their stories, take a breath with me. And if a day ever comes when something hurts, in your back, your neck, or your heart, I'm one text away, wherever you are.

With a whole lot of love,Joel

P.S. If you only do one thing here, take a breath with me. It takes half a minute, and it's my favorite part of this page.

if something hurts,

let me help.

Whenever you're ready, wherever you are.

Text me

Joel smiling at the bottom of a staircase framed by red velvet curtains — here whenever you need me ♡

My path

How I found this work, or how it found me.

I didn't come to energy healing because I believed in it. I came because I kept seeing it work, and I couldn't look away.

June 22, 2023

A teacher, and a lineage

This is where it all began. That day I started training under Master Albert Chen in Vitalium, a branch of Shaolin Nei Jin Yi Zhi Chan, a Chan Buddhist practice that traces back to the Fujian Shaolin Temple. I've trained with him ever since, and today I'm one of only two people actively teaching it.

Consistent practice, for a long time

The foundation is humble: horse stance, held day after day. It's where the energy is built. Most of the work happens long before I ever begin a session with someone.

August 2023

Performing treatments and recording results

Seven weeks after I began, I started writing every treatment down, and whenever someone could put a number on their pain, I've recorded it before and after. I wanted to know honestly what was happening, and I wanted this work to be taken seriously. You can see every one of them in my case records.

Same results, near or far

The healing itself starts in stillness. From there, I direct energy, with intention, to wherever it hurts. Sometimes I'm right there beside you. Often I'm across the city or across the world, and my records say those sessions help about as much. No cracking, no needles, no pills. People often feel warmth, tingling, or simply relief.

June 9, 2026

Coherent Energy was born

Almost three years in, all of that grew into Coherent Energy, my practice in San Francisco. Its mission is to raise the standard of care, help practitioners earn a living wage, and bring this healing to more people.

Today · newest session Oct 6, 2026

Every session, one point of light

Put all of those sessions together and they tell the story of my journey better than I ever could. Here it is ↓

The story of my journey

One session at a time.

Each point of light is one session, with a real person on the other side of it. The very first, in August 2023, sits at the center; the most recent is out at the edge. The bigger the light, the more pain lifted.

First session Aug 9, 2023 · most recent Oct 6, 2026

212 stories, one for every session since August 2023, and still being written.

Explore the full spiral Read the case records

Hover over any light to meet the person behind it, and click to find them in the full spiral.

212sessions

newest · Oct 6, 2026 · Shoulder Pain ↗

Start here

Where does it hurt?

Pick the part of you that hurts. I'll show you, from my own records, what one session has done for others with the same thing.

Pick a part of the body, and I'll tell you what I've seen.

Text me about it See every session ↗

These are averages across real sessions. Your body is its own, and I'd rather hear about it than guess.

Moments of relief

What changes when the pain lets go.

Injuries that were slowing people down, and pain some had carried for months or years. These are real sessions, with the pain each person reported before and after a single treatment, on a scale of 0 to 10.

Swipe to see more →

Joel treating Olga's lower back at a workshop

83% less pain

Lower back pain

Olga

Mill Valley, CA · Nov 2025

Before 6After 6

She came in skeptical. That one session jumpstarted a longer recovery, and today she's pain-free.

The results spoke for themselves.

Case № 121 in the spiral →

Joel treating Peter's neck and shoulders

50% less pain

Neck & trap pain

Peter

Todos Santos, Mexico · Jan 2026

Before 9After 9

He hurt his neck right before a yoga retreat he was about to lead. Half the pain gone and his mobility back, he was teaching the next day.

Less tension and pain made teaching the next day much more manageable.

Case № 133 in the spiral →

100% less pain

Shoulder tendonitis

Aren

Mill Valley, CA · Feb 2026

Before 4After 4

Four to five months of shoulder pain from a lifting injury. By that night it was gone, or barely there.

Overall my shoulder continues to feel much better.

Case № 136 in the spiral →

Joel treating Mark, who is seated wearing a walking boot

57% less pain

Fractured ankle & foot

Mark

Austin, TX · Nov 2025

Before 7After 7

Still in a walking boot from fractures in his ankle and foot. One session took away more than half of his pain.

Case № 124 in the spiral →

Joel treating Irina at a candlelit workshop

88% less pain

Chronic lower back pain

Irina

Mill Valley, CA · Dec 2025

Before 8After 8

Chronic back pain sitting at an 8 out of 10. After one session, a 1.

Case № 128 in the spiral →

86% less pain

Knee & leg injury

Jacinta

Todos Santos, Mexico · Jan 2026

Before 7After 7

An injured knee and leg at a 7 out of 10. One session later, a 1.

Case № 135 in the spiral →

See every case record

In their words

The moments that keep me going.

Swipe to see more →

Watch Dawn's story · opens Instagram

My headache dissipated completely!

DawnTwenty years of migraines. From a 6.5 to a 0 on a retreat morning in Todos Santos. She thanked us in tears the next day, still pain-free.

Watch Okto's story · opens Instagram

Since then, I've basically had no pain.

OktoFourteen rib fractures from a motorcycle accident and years of back pain. One session brought him from a 6 to a 1.

Watch Jennifer's story · opens Instagram

I don't feel any pain now.

JenniferTwenty years of lower back pain. A workshop in Mill Valley, and a month later, still pain-free.

More of their stories on Coherent Energy

A small gift

Take one breath with me.

Wherever you are reading this, let your shoulders drop. Press begin and follow the light: in for four, out for six. Three rounds is plenty.

The whole page has been breathing like this since you arrived. Now it's your turn to lead.

Send this breath to someone If something still hurts, text me →

What I hold close

Three things I believe.

one

The body knows how to heal.

Most of the time it doesn't need fixing from the outside. It needs the blockages cleared and the flow restored. Then it does what it already knows how to do.

two

Try the gentle thing first.

Surgery and medication have their place, but they shouldn't be the first place. I'd love for the people I care about to try something non-invasive before anything that can't be undone.

three

Honesty over hype.

I only share what clients report. Every session written down, pain before and pain after whenever someone can give me a number. You deserve the truth, especially from someone who loves you.

Keep exploring

Wander a little further in.

A glowing spiral of colored dots, one for every session

Every session, in one spiral

212 sessions and counting, the newest from Oct 6, 2026. Follow the timeline from the very first and open any one along the way.

Step into the spiral ↗

A chart of case records comparing pain before and after

The case records

Pain before, pain after, for the 180 sessions I could score, out of 212. 70% average relief, 95% felt less pain. Filter by part of the body and read the stories.

Read the records ↗

Coherent Energy

My practice: energy healing from a distance, anywhere in the world, and in person around San Francisco.

Visit the practice ↗

The door is always open

If you're hurting, I want to know.

A sore back, a stubborn shoulder, a migraine that won't quit, or someone in your life who's been suffering for years. You don't need to fill out a form or have it all figured out. Just send me a message and we'll talk.

And you don't have to be nearby. I work with people from a distance, wherever in the world they are, and in person around San Francisco and the Bay Area.

You don't need the right words. “Hi” is enough.

Text me

and please, pass this along to anyone who needs it ♡

Joel sitting cross-legged on the floor, smiling, his palms open toward you

Stay close

Let's not be strangers.

I share stories, treatment videos, and the occasional bit of life on Instagram. Come say hi.

Text me(510) 519-8188 Instagram@joel.energy TikTok@joel.energy My practicecoherentenergy.co