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I was recently asked to substitute teach for a Qigong class at the local City Center. It was a great group – 6 students attended. We went slow – it was their first class.  We went over a foundation (which can be a complete qigong practice in and of itself), and then did Tap QigongContinue reading “Qigong works in mysterious ways..”

Beginning with an aside… due to holiday travel and lodging in new places, I went four days without doing my usual 30 – 45 minutes of qigong in the morning, and I am really feeling it. Just doing 20 minutes of it tonight helped to right the ship as it were. It is interesting, butContinue reading “Chi Kung class 9: Water Qigong”

Hello Dear Readers, I have skipped a few descriptions of classes in the past few weeks. Been staying pretty busy. And I consider myself to be privileged to lead Chi Kung – I am slowly discovering what it means to be a Chi Kung (qigong) teacher. We met at a new venue today. An idyllic,Continue reading “Chi Kung class 8”

If you are looking for a post about specific Taoist practices of sexuality, look at Daniel Reid’s book – the Tao of Health, Sex and Longevity; or seek out the Jade Dragon / White Tigress books. Mantak Chia’s books also provide a lot of specifics around sexual practices. I was discussing what little I knowContinue reading “Qigong makes one a better lover: benefits of a qigong practice”

I am very fortunate. Thank you karma! And I am so grateful for all of my precious heart teachers. They have taught me the methods for expanding my heart container, my soul container, my psychic container as it were. And with that expansion comes the added benefit of obstacles seeming smaller and smaller – orContinue reading “Inverse relationship between the container and the obstacles”

If you read my previous post, I have been processing an old bit of shock and numbness from my birth (for a while now – but it was more up in the past few weeks). I had a great session today with a group of compassionate, graceful healing facilitators which definitely shifted a layer orContinue reading “Pilates workout!”

If you are an avid reader of this blog, you may know that I throw the I Ching coins from time to time (a divination tool from China that is at least 3,000 years old). I work with a unique interpretation of the I Ching (Yi Jing) written by Julie Henderson, the founder of ZapchenContinue reading “a storm brews beneath a placid front”

Sometimes the basics are all you need. They are in fact the foundation on which the rest of the material is built! This class I am leading is full of transition – some people missing a class here and there. Hence I am going nice and slow, plodding along through the basics. Of course thatContinue reading “Chi Kung class 4”

There is a difference between knowing the path, and walking the path. I’m not quite there yet. There is also something to be said for experiencing deep wisdom teachings from a fellow human being directly (in-person somatic transmission). Therefore I am not going to say very much in this blog post. [Subtext – if youContinue reading “Chi Kung class 3”

I am leading a Chi Kung class on Saturdays, in Crozet, for another 8 weeks. If you are interested in joining us, you might still be able to squeak in – OR let me know if you are interested in a future class. I might start another group in Charlottesville in January. It is aContinue reading “2nd Chi Kung class: slow and steady”