The Lifelong Health Board Members
Shih Fu Eileen Hancock
Founder, Director
Shih Fu Eileen Hancock founded Lifelong Health, Inc. in 2014 with a goal of spreading the ancient arts of Tai Chi & Qi Gong as a complementary and integrative medicine approach.
Shih Fu Hancock studied psychology with an emphasis in Neuroscience and Behavioral Genetics at the University of Colorado at Boulder. In 2004, Shih Fu interned at the UC Davis Medical Center doing cancer research. At the research center, she cultivated and treated cancer cells with the most innovative and experimental drugs at that time, such as docetaxel. During research, Shih Fu noted the countless times that flasks of cancer cells died due to oxygen exposure.
Later in 2004, Shih Fu founded Body Balance Academy to spread the ancient arts of Tai Chi, Qi Gong & Kung Fu for health and wellbeing. Shih Fu loves to surf and created a sister location, Pura Vida Tai Chi & Kung Fu for immersion training in Ostional, Costa Rica.
Shih Fu’s grand vision is to harmonize humankind and the world through the ancient teachings.
Summer Lujan
Co-Director
Summer Lujan is a licensed midwife and the co-founder of Mariposa Birth Center. She specializes in natural living and has been serving families for over 20 years. Summer’s background in child development has fostered the Kung Fu & Tai Chi programs as well as teacher training at Body Balance Academy since 2010. Summer is certified in Yoga, Pilates and Tai Chi. She spearheaded the Qi Gong for Cancer Survivors Program through Lifelong Health, INC. in 2019, as a survivor herself. Summer’s mission is to bring holistic health for prevention and wellness to local and global communities.
Char Chang
Board Member
Char Chang has more than 15 years of experience in integrated marketing, public relations and corporate communications. She has dedicated her career to being in service to global, national and local philanthropic and nonprofit organizations. Her experience in public health includes leading multi-million, multi-year statewide public awareness campaigns on child abuse prevention and tobacco prevention and control.
Char holds B.A.s in Communications and English from Boston College and currently lives in Nevada City, CA with her husband and two pups.
Jocelyn Brown
Board Member
Jocelyn is new to Nevada County, CA, and is originally from Minneapolis, MN. She works as a licensed midwife, medical administrator and targeted grazier. Her volunteer work has focused on maternal-fetal health, housing justice, and food justice. She lives in Nevada City with her two dogs.