Ending a Cycle, Beginning Another

Ending a Cycle, Beginning Another

Welcome to 2025, which in numerology is the number 9. 2 + 0 + 2 + 5 = 9 The energy of the number 9 represents completion—coming full circle—not finality. This year may be a sign that a phase of your life is coming to a close, making space for new beginnings. I have...
New Year’s Eve Day

New Year’s Eve Day

Receive & Release: A New Year’s Eve Qigong Class Tuesday, December 31, 9:30 – 10:30am Only $9 — cash or Venmo (@Toni-Lock)   ✨ Join us for a New Year’s Eve morning of renewal and intention! ✨ As we wrap up 2024 and step into the blessings of 2025, this...
Caring for Self

Caring for Self

A Day of Connection, Healing, and Renewal for Women Saturday, February 15, from 10am-4pm   Join us this winter at the beautiful Red Butte Garden, inside the Rose House. Join us for a restorative day designed to nurture your body, mind, and spirit. Together, we’ll...
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...
Recognizing Impermanence

Recognizing Impermanence

  The Cambridge dictionary defines impermanence as “the state of not lasting for ever or not lasting for a long time.” Let’s ponder this—not lasting for ever or a long time—we all know this, and yet do we recognize it? At times, maybe, when someone we know dies...
Presence for the Holidays

Presence for the Holidays

This insight was written one week from Thanksgiving. Linear time seems to be escaping me more often than not. Which is perfect because wherever I go, there I am. Haven’t we heard this statement many times in different ways? The present moment contains past and...
Where is Your Head & Feet?

Where is Your Head & Feet?

I have been asking students, “How often is your head and your feet in the same place?” Meaning how often are you being present. Or, is your body in one place, and your head in the clouds with thoughts of the future or the past? I was recently teaching a class, and one...
Deepening Our Understanding of Qigong

Deepening Our Understanding of Qigong

My second installation of Sifu Gardner’s Master Qigong class, continuing with more insights we received from that class. This is written with his words from the recording, and from my understanding. My personal notes are in (brackets).   Qigong Qigong happens...
What Does it Mean to Flow?

What Does it Mean to Flow?

There’s a famous quote in the Tao Te Ching about water: Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water. Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass it.  Water is inclusive, it gives wherever it flows. It’s unconditional. Water has no...