Guy Savelli was a martial artist, teacher, and spiritual healer. He taught the spiritual and mental aspects of martial arts, especially
Kuntao.
In 1983, Savelli was recruited by Col.
Nick Rowe to train U.S. Army Special Forces soldiers in his techniques at Fort Bragg. Among Savelli's students were hand-to-hand combat instructors for the U.S. Army Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE) program. Savelli was further engaged as a hand-to-hand combat instructor for Special Operations units in the early 2000s. His experiences are detailed in Ronson's 2004 book ''
The Men Who Stare at Goats''.
Savelli was a research subject at
Duke University
Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...
, the Psychical Research Institute, and the
Mind Science Foundation in
San Antonio, Texas. Positive results of his work have been published in ''Research in Parapsychology'', the ''Journal of Parapsychology'',
[1986 and 1987] as well as by the Parapsychology Department of
JFK University
John F. Kennedy University was a private university based in California with offices in Pleasant Hill, San Jose in California; Natick, Massachusetts; and Willemstad, Curaçao. The university was founded in 1965 to offer degrees and certificat ...
. Savelli has also authored an introductory text on the ''Spiritual, Mental, and Physical Teachings of Chinese Kung-Fu''. Savelli died of Covid-19 on December 1, 2020.
References
External links
Master Guy Savelli
Living people
American male martial artists
American psychics
Year of birth missing (living people)
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