Jo Ann Zae Zatoon:
CLASS OF 1966
Holyoke High SchoolClass of 1966
Holyoke, MA
Progressive Universal Life Church SchoolClass of 1994
Sacramento, CA
North Shore Community CollegeClass of 1977
Beverly, MA
Bennington CollegeClass of 1970
Bennington, VT
Jo Ann Zae's Story
Upon graduation from HHS in 1966, Zae attended Bennington College in Bennington, VT and got bit by the travel bug. She spent the winter of her Junior year at the Instituto Allende in San Miguel De Allende, Mexico and has considered herself a ÂCitizen of the World ever since .
After graduating from Bennington with a BA in visual arts, she taught high school art in Santurce, Puerto Rico in 1970 and worked as a graphic artist for a total of 2 years in San Juan. Long before the term "entrepreneur" was a household word, she returned to the US and developed 2 of her own pottery studios in Salem, MA. She then sold them and moved to California to create and operate a graphic design/ad agency in Marin County. Later, she ran her own Marin-based greeting card manufacturing plant where she hired the handicapped, published 143 of her own designs, and maintained a nationwide marketing network of 129 sales reps, 15 showrooms and 29 annual tradeshows.
Growing and selling each of these ventures as she proceeded to the next, she moved continually westward and eventually transplanted to Hawaii. Living on the islands of Maui and the Big Island for 12 years, she taught SCUBA, studied ancient healing arts and lived among papaya trees and wild turkeys. To enable access to the primitive coffee shack she called home for 2 years, she hand-built a 500-foot long lava rock road.
"At first," she says, "I moved to Hawaii for the ocean. But, it was the land, the Âaina, that held me there."
While in Hawaii, Zae made the acquaintance of Rev. Dr. Tadamasa Fukaya, who invited her on full scholarship to Tenrikyo University in Tenri, Japan. At Tenrikyo, she earned a Yoboku degree in Natural Healing and was awarded the Osazuke Healing Grant. She later earned her Reiki Master-Teacher degree and acquired a Ph.D. in Counseling, a doctorate in Natural Healing and a variety of certifications in complimentary skills, including Hypnotherapy and Intuitive Healin...Expand for more
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Dr. Zae trained in Human Sexuality at the Human Awareness Institute in Northern California and held faculty positions at Pacific Northwest University in San Francisco, North Shore Community College in Beverly, MA and the School of Tantra in Maui, HI. She lectured for the Women's Department at the University of Hawaii in Hilo and for the Naturist Society of Oshkosh, WI.
In 1998, she co-anchored the "The Good News" television show on the Hawaii's Akaku network and produced a self-help video entitled ÂReturn to Health: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. The video is available online with proceeds going to benefit chapter 501(c)3 nonprofit training for people with physical and learning disabilities.
Zae returned to Southeast Asia in 2000 as a volunteer peace representative for the World Peace Prayer Society. She co-delivered a relationships workshop at the Silver Dove Peace Congress in Chiang Mai, Thailand and visited Bali, Indonesia later that year, meeting San Francisco-born, visionary artist Jack Alexander following a royal cremation that each of them had attended..
Zae and Jack lived together in Bali for two-and-a-half years, studying shaminstic healing modalities and counseling English-speaking ex-patriots. Then, Zae returned to Thailand where she lived solo for another 2 years before returning to the US.
Over the years, Zae has visited close to 30 different countries, has lived in more than half-a-dozen, and has worked and trained with shamans, healers and peace-makers from all over the world. Presently, having been in Las Vegas for 4 years, she and Jack live in Sarasota, Fl. Jack works as a professional artist and faux finisher, and Zae administers a non-profit agency, called World Peace Center. In the US and in Third World countries, World Peace Center volunteers work alongside other nonprofit organizations to develiver humanitarian aid to clinics, schools, refugee camps and leper communities.
In a word, life is good.
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