Category: The View from the Window

When you quiet down strange and beautiful ideas seem to come from… everywhere.

Nothing Special

Please don’t fall into that category of people who are simultaneously self-impressed and casual. That’s why I hate terms like “running energy”, “bad qi”, and such.

Year of the Metal Rabbit, 2011 | JOURNEYS

Here we have it, the path ahead  for the uphopping Year of the Rabbit. Learn when to jump into those boltholes and when to raise your head and look around for predators or some juicy lettuce … All supplied by…

Integrity and the Body

The Quakers have a testimony about integrity. In a nutshell, it instructs us to make our outside match our inside.  If you think about this for a moment you’ll see that this is not at all easy.  How many times…

Food for the Spirit

There are many ways to feed the spirit. I think of qigong, tea, dancing, music, gardening, books.  Let’s not forget books.  Hopefully, you still read them. I know many people don’t anymore.  But there’s something about a real book, either…

The Power of the Small

I was feeling stuck, overwhelmed, and tired.  It happens to all of us at times.  The press of our responsibilities and commitments begins to weigh us down. There’s too much to do, and not enough time. We lose balance and…

Teapots

Recently an old friend, who has years of Tai Chi and Qigong experience, asked me if it would add anything to his practice to come to an afternoon workshop to learn Blossoms in the Spring.  This is an excellent question. …

Falling Apart

It’s amazing how quickly things fall apart. Yesterday I spent an hour tidying my house in anticipation of visitors.  This morning there was already dog hair on the couch (my pug sheds incessantly,) laundry to be done, papers to be…

No Time

Here’s how it usually goes: up at 7:00, take the dog out, rustle up a cup of tea (or coffee), eye on the clock, figure there’s just enough time to check email then, for sure, you’ll have ten spacious uninterrupted minutes for qigong before diving into the shower and preparing to head off to work for the day.

Breathing

This morning when I went out to the frosty meadow near my house to practice I took my elk horn knives.  I like to get at least one session a week in with these crescent shaped weapons.  They’re a good…

Qigong and the Moon

Lately I’ve been experimenting with ways to tune my daily qigong practice so that it reflects natural cycles, rather than sticking to a rigid plan.