Kelley Ireland is a lifelong health and fitness enthusiast.

Kelley worked for 32 years at the United States Postal Service. For 20 years, she worked as a workplace Safety Specialist and trainer, specializing in OSHA and EPA compliance, as well as injury prevention. Kelley currently works for the Department of Veterans Affairs as a national faculty trainer and workplace injury management consultant. She is still working in the vein of injury prevention at work and in her business at Qi Essence.

Kelley comes from a family of extreme longevity and listened when one aunt, who is 100 years old and still going strong, said that her beauty secret is to "keep moving." With her interest in healthful living and graceful, vital longevity, Kelley took that information and investigated alternatives to becoming overweight, immobile, and physically and mentally unfit.

While exploring alternatives to simply getting old and falling apart, Kelley began to study the ancient Chinese Taoist principles of the cultivation of Qi, or "Energy/Life Force" through Qigong and Tai Chi. With guidance and the teachings of Dr. Roger Jahnke, O.M.D., Kelley became a certified teacher of the ancient internal arts of Qigong, Tai Chi Easy, and Tai Chi.

Kelley now brings Dr. Jahnke's message of vital longevity to people thorugh her teachings of Tai Chi and Qigong. Dr. Jahnke is the creator of the Healer Within Foundation and the Integral Institute of Qigong and Tai Chi (IIQTC) in Santa Barbara, CA. Dr. Jahnke has shared much of his extensive knowledge of Traditional Chinese Medicine and lifelong personal cultivation of these ancient practices, making them transferable to the busy lives that Americans lead.

In April of 2013, Kelley traveled with a study group to China, to the "cradle of Taoism", Wudang Mountain in the Hubei Province. Kelley saw and experienced firsthand the origins and the authentic Chinese "flavor" of the beautiful graceful, flowing movements that are Qigong and Tai Chi. She returned even more dedicated to sharing these health-giving practices with people in the West.

Kelley currently teaches Qigong, Tai Chi Easy and Tai Chi in Tucson, Arizona.