Zenshin Institute grew out of Masami and Chris Covey's work to take health education and body-mind connection beyond movement and meditation. 

Today, Zenshin Method reflects our comprehensive, whole-person approach to Wellness:  integrating our minds with our bodies' nutritional foundations, lifestyle, movement, awareness, deep relaxation, listening, appropriate response, and emotional intelligence.

We currently work with individual and corporate clients in the Denver-metro area, and remotely in the US, Canada, Japan, the UK and Europe via phone and Skype.

Chris Covey

Chris has supported individuals and groups internationally in Education, Health and Wellness since 1999 as a teacher, speaker, nonprofit program director, school administrator, group facilitator, and nationally recognized leader.

For Chris, nourishing every aspect of our lives—physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual—is the basis for Wellness and expressing our highest potential. 

During his years in P-12 education, Chris witnessed an upsurge in health conditions among children—ADHD, depression, autism spectrum disorders, extreme allergic sensitivities, anxiety, etc.  In 2008, suffering from his own health challenges, Chris transitioned from education to tackling a large home-building project full-time. 

His years working with toxic building materials and practicing poor self-care led to rapid weight gain, brain fog, inflammation, hypothyroid conditions, and chronic exhaustion. This exacerbated old brain and spinal injuries, TBI-induced depression, and chronic pain from a severe mountain biking accident at age 18.

But after joining with Masami to reverse her MS diagnosis with diet and “lifestyle medicine”, Chris also experienced the powerful connection between the body’s functional nutritional needs and daily supportive habits—the twin foundations for healing and restoring overall health and wellbeing. 

This led Chris to subsequent Wellness research and training as a Nutritional Therapist and certified Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA) practitioner. Through a combination of Nutritional Therapy, heart-centering meditation, movement and breathing practices, and unlearning old habits, Chris restored his brain health, resolved his chronic pain, stabilized his metabolism, and shed 70 pounds of accumulated weight and toxicity. 

Since his late teens, Chris has maintained a deep interest in meditative awareness and contemplative wisdom traditions.  He is an active student of Universal Sufism, leader meditation groups, serves as a Guide for the Open Path Trainings, and is ordained as a Universalist Celebrant for life transitions and rites of passage. 

Chris holds a Masters degree in Educational Psychology from the University of Colorado-Denver, and an Hons. B.A. in Political Science and Religious Studies from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He continues his work as a health and wellness consultant and Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (NTP).

Masami Covey

An experienced somatic-body practitioner, Nutritional Therapist (NTP), Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT), Yoga teacher-trainer, and applied linguist, Masami offers a unique framework for connecting the subtle “body language” of physiology and anatomy with breath, emotion, mind and nutrition.  Masami believes that we are each our own primary healer.

Masami provides highly individualized health support for all ages, using foundations of nutritional science, Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA), yoga therapy, breath work, and Ayurveda.

Nutrition has become a central focus of Masami's work.  After working with clients for more than 18 years, experiencing a complete physical breakdown of her own body in 2011 that was initially diagnosed as Multiple Sclerosis, and being injured in a severe car accident in 2012, she realized that nutrition was the missing element in healing and supporting long-lasting health.

Through her large group workshops and private practice, together with Chris, she has developed Zenshin Method.  This whole-person approach empowers individuals to become experts of who they are and transform their lives. 

Masami was born and raised in Japan in a bi-cultural family, and she draws extensively from her blend of East-meets-West cultural, linguistic, and energetic experience.  She recognizes the power of both scientific knowledge and intuition in understanding the human experience of body, mind, and spirit. 

Masami holds a Master of Science in International Business from the University of Colorado-Denver, and a B.A. in International Affairs from the University of Colorado-Boulder. She is a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (NTP), Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT), and E-RYT 500 Yoga Teacher/Trainer