
The Empty Teacher
It’s Monday after a weekend retreat at Breitenbush which thirty-five people attended. The whole day, there was a part of me that wanted to write down this most amazing experience I had while teaching this retreat, but I felt out of sort and could not quite capture the...
Going Within for Spontaneous Change
Feb. 06 To use physics terms as a metaphor about qigong, our five senses are oriented toward the outside, in receiving and interpreting the external stimuli with internal information from our past experiences and knowledge. These five senses interprets information...
Level I Workshop Description
How can ZYQ practice serve us in our daily life? And how can we incorporate the ZYQ practice with other modalities we may be practicing? I have been developing a spreadsheet attempting to explain, in a big picture sense, the stages of spiritual development we attain...
NW Qigong Forum & Member-based Community Center
My dear community, Wow! With eight people’s incredible dedication, we finished all the major parts of ZYQ’s move in ten hours! This gives me such enthusiasm for our community’s new beginning. After a day of vigorous work, we all sat around boxes, resting, eating...
Level II Workshop Description
I will be offering a 3-day Level II workshop in three weeks at the Ocean Park Retreat Center. Being close to the ocean will deepen our healing, connecting us to the natural rhythm of our breath, the strength of our breath and the expansiveness of our energetic...
Layers of Reality and the Ultimate Reality
Existing knowledge are based on different layers of reality, all of them true to their specific circumstances or limitations. They are true for different consciousness levels, or parameters of that consciousness. The knowledge becomes obsolete when the limitations are...
Four Stages of Spiritual Development
There are generally four stages of spiritual development. All stages in our spiritual journey are at the right time necessary, but at other times they can cause spiritual stagnation, becoming yet another form of attachment. At the beginning of our spiritual journey,...
Releasing Emotions
Nov. 07 We cannot resolve emotions through the mind. The mind is merely the receiver of information. The sender is our body. That is why when we get angry, it rises faster than our rational mind could catch it. To resolve anger, we must release our awareness into our...
Releasing into Life
November 7, 2006 We tend to think of breathing harder to get more oxygen. We try to bring in more energy, suck in more life force. We try to get healthy. We try to attract more wealth. We try to find love and happiness. We use all these active terms, breathe, try,...
Becoming Present through Osmosis
Before I left for Peru Karen invited me to Ecstatic Dance—an open free form session moving to world music. Since I have been back, I have been going regularly. The space is perfect for my spontaneous movement and Zhenggong practice (A level four ZYQ practice) where I...
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