Holiday Integrity

Holiday Integrity

A Six-Week Path to Grace, Goodwill and Honesty Saturday, November 16, from 2-4:30pm   My dear friend, Lucy Dillon, and I invite you to join us for an afternoon of exploring how to move through the next 6-weeks with grace, goodwill and honesty. ✨ What does...
Recognizing Green Flags

Recognizing Green Flags

  The second sacred circle topic in our women’s retreat this year was “Green Flags in People.” I chose to flip the conversation from red to green flags. A red flag in relationships are intuitive indicators that something needs to be questioned. So what are the...
Boundaries Create Spaciousness

Boundaries Create Spaciousness

  Our third annual Qigong retreat for women took place over the weekend. This year, “Exploring Spaciousness” was our topic. We spoke about boundaries in one of our sacred circles. We discussed their appearance as children and their current significance to us. In...
Living a Qigong/Tai Chi Life

Living a Qigong/Tai Chi Life

  As we prepare for the Present Moment Awareness Weekend with my Sifu on August 23 & 24. I thought I would share some thoughts and conversations we have had about this upcoming playful weekend. First of all, qigong is more than movements in space. Qigong is...
The Inner Alchemy of Change

The Inner Alchemy of Change

Returning to the realm of our dreams… Saturday, May 4 from 4-7pm   Join my teacher, Master Sifu Gardner, and me on Saturday afternoon for an exploration of inner alchemy. A transcendental process we’ll engage in—through movement, breathing, centering, and...
Journaling Through Life

Journaling Through Life

I have a been journaling since the 7th grade, on and off throughout my life. It’s interesting to go back and look at what I thought was important, and the challenges that I went through that have brought me to where I am today. CHANGE. The one thing that is constant...
Gently Guiding Our Inner Fire

Gently Guiding Our Inner Fire

As the temperatures begin to rise—we feel the heat of summer—the maximum yang season. When our inner-fire is in balance, we can feel creative, productive, energetic, and joyful. When we lean too far into the fire, we can feel depleted, exhausted, and we want nothing...
Laying Down a Foundation with Qigong

Laying Down a Foundation with Qigong

On February 24, Sifu Gardner taught another Master Qigong class in-person. Below are some of the insights we received. This is written with his words from the recording that night, and from my understanding. My personal notes are in (brackets).   He took us on a...
Expanding Our View

Expanding Our View

Earlier this month, 30 of us experienced an in-person Qigong Master Class with my teacher, Sifu Gardner. He laid the foundation in many ways for us to expand our meaning of qigong. He reminded us in different ways that qigong is more than a moving meditation,...
Changing Our Lens of Perception

Changing Our Lens of Perception

Every conversation we have, every book we remember, every story we share is from our personal lens of experience. It is simply our truth. Our truth is compiled from what we have gathered from observing life, and knowing what resonates within our heart and what does...