DAY 898. What richness to be able to wake up and practice in the sun first thing, warm and glowing with spring.
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We are so feeling this bright, cheery season here on our mesatop. Outside all day, windows and doors fully open, and lots of outdoor projects. One of them is an earthen practice platform for me (!!). We’re making it on the east side of the art studio, sheltered from the wind and with the best morning sunlight. Outdoor Qigong and Tea Ceremony spot to make my heart light, all done with materials from the land, asked first to join, of course.
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​DAY 897. Today is Kwan Yin’s birthday, Goddess of Mercy, celebrated on the 19th day of the second lunar month each year. Her name comes in many forms, with the English spelling also varying— Kuan Yin, Quan Yin, Guan Yin; her Chinese name means “Regarder of Sounds” or “Of the Voices of the Suffering.” In Sanskrit she has two names: Padma-pâni, meaning “Born of the Lotus,” and Avalokitesvara (the male representation of Kwan Yin) which means “the Lord Who Looks In Every Direction.”
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Whatever name we use to call on her though, she will come and assist you when you are in need. In many of the Eagle Claw forms we stand in Kwan Yin Resting Stance; deceptively at ease. Kwan Yin holds the willow branch in peace and healing, but she is a true warrior. My most revered Warrior Priestess, she achieved nirvana but chose not to cross the threshold, vowing to stay with Earth and its people for as long as suffering exists among them. She is always at the ready to be of service.
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DAY 896. Patterned scarves and tapestries faded by sun, threadbare by wind and use, made more valuable by love— by the sturdy practicality of materials with multiple uses and with whom one’s life is better.
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When I was a child I looked this way in my dream, in my vision, in my prayer for what I’d one day be.
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It was a romantic scene, that place I made on my heart. It was all wishes and hopes, lightly touched desires I simply tossed in on innocent whims.
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But they sat in there, safe, listening, at ease, and grew. They sent roots into my belly and shoots into my mind. My crown was pierced with millions of tiny seedlings and they covered my scalp with the tender green of daydreams sprouting.
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I forgot about them. I learned how to make myself pretty; I learned how to make myself dinner; I learned how to make others feel better; I learned how to make myself better.
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So by the time I was in the world as an adult, having had those reverie-saplings reared by my maiden years, without much attention to those scraggly, thin reaching adolescent trees on the top of my head, I began to discover they had been there with me my whole life.
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The man of my dreams, the home of my dreams, the work, the animals, the friends, the life of my dreams was waiting for me, patiently planted on my heart like an oak grove of intertwining limbs that has existed since the beginning of time.
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DAY 895. Some days I can feel the Qi as clearly as if I were moving within water, or wind— willing it this way and that, playing with it, shaping it, spinning it, sending it out, catching it, pulling it in, spreading it, expanding it, stretching it, lifting it up, pushing it down, condensing it, drawing it into itself, collecting it, then casting it out again.
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Other days it’s harder to feel, and I rely more heavily on muscle memory, and mind memory, intention, and imagination. Most days I begin a little scratchy, a little course, and gradually refine the movement until I reach that magical point of truly feeling the Qi, effortlessly moving my body in a fully unified way, both willing and allowing the energy to move and be moved.
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Today was one of those particularly attuned days I described first— the really rich ones. I’m grateful for it. And at the same time, I’ve learned, for me it’s best to stay neutral about it. I can enjoy it and delight in the sensation of strong and clear Qi, but I like to let it go also, so that I don’t grasp too tightly to the feeling, which tends to make it come less often.
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A soft, relaxed state of allowing the Qi and myself to relate to each other however it may be— that is what feels best to me. This way I don’t long anxiously for the magic Qi days when the flow is less readily flowing, and l can relax and simply move even if it doesn’t feel as perfectly aligned.
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DAY 894. The Chinese character for heron sounds very similar to the one for “path” or “way” and although the characters are different, the symbol of a heron in paintings and poems (commonly paired with a lotus blossom) is interpreted as an upward path, a way toward one’s advancement, whether worldly or spiritually. The heron also symbolizes strength, purity, patience, and long life.
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When we call on the Yin Yang Herons in this form, we do so from a place of standing with them in their own habitat, water land. We stand waist-deep in the river, but this is no ordinary river. This is your river; the River of Qi flowing within you at all times.
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Sometimes we may forget about this River and we need to be reminded; sometimes our River gets dammed and we need to unblock the flow; sometimes we need to stop trying to control the flow of our River so tightly—the current will take us downstream whether we struggle or relax, and sometimes we need reminding that it’s much more pleasant to just let go.
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When these things arise, Yin Yang Herons are here to help you. With their long beaks they carry the River through you. They help it to flow, following the energy current of the Microcosmic Orbit—up the spine, and down the front. This is the circuit of Qi running through you; it is your River, running in a circle that mimics the flow of energies that make up the Cosmos.
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Quoting my own writing there, from the description to the Qigong Lesson Film for this form, which you can use to learn, in detail, this Microcosmic Orbit Qigong form that calls so deeply on the Water element. On this day set aside to honor Water, we had much of it in the skies (see @breafisher for rain all around the land).
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DAY 893. Today, Earth Dog Qigong, for the medicine of stability through transition— living with a foot in two worlds (here the world of winter imposed on the spring Qi that has already made a home in our hearts.
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From Mary Oliver’s Dog Songs, speaking to what this form cultivates better than anything I’ve ever written on it:
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“But I want to extol not the sweetness nor the placidity of the dog, but the wilderness out of which he cannot step entirely, and from which we benefit. For wilderness is our first home too, and in our wild ride into modernity with all its concerns and problems we need also all the good attachments to that origin that we can keep or restore. Dog is one of the messengers of that rich and still magical first world. The dog would remind us of the pleasures of the body with its graceful physicality, and the acuity and rapture of the senses, and the beauty of forest and ocean and rain and our own breath. There is not a dog that romps and runs but we learn from him.
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“The other dog—the one that all its life walks leashed and obedient down the sidewalk—is what a chair is to a tree. It is a possession only, the ornament of a human life. Such dogs can remind us of nothing large or noble or mysterious or lost. They cannot make us sweeter or more kind.
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“Only unleashed dogs can do that. They are a kind of poetry themselves when they are devoted not only to us but to the wet night, to the moon and the rabbit-smell in the grass and their own bodies leaping forward.” 
―Mary Oliver, Dog Songs
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DAY 892. May the change of the seasons bring you exactly what you need to know yourself as healed and whole right now in this very moment.
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Did you see that moonrise tonight?! If you didn’t see it, take a moment to at least feel its power. So much potency happening right now in the stars and planets; we aren’t just influenced by them, we’re made of them— mini versions of the cosmos.
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This is the original Gongfu form to Rooting Boar (see yesterday’s post for its Qigong variation). Here I’m using a fist instead of a knife palm. The Boar form holds both Water and Earth element medicine; it makes it perfect for our transition from winter to spring here in the Northern Hemisphere, but really it would be good for the Southern half of the globe, too— that Earth element is our center point.
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In the Qigong version we extend both arms forward and imagine a beam of light like a spear right through the chest. When we pause and hold in this stance, we can feel ourselves as that center point— the fulcrum between the Yang field above (the sky/ heavens) and the Yin field below (the earth)— just as Earth is the fulcrum of the Five Elements. 
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DAY 891. Under the influence of our moon, we shift into spring. Tomorrow, Wednesday MAR 20 marks the Equinox, on the very same day as the full moon, and a Super moon at that. Know that this is a gift. Here is Lena Stevens to help you better understand how you can glean the most from such a potent mix of Qi:
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“This is a Super Moon and a rare and powerful event with the Equinox landing on the same day. You have an opportunity, a portal through which this power comes through, to set some intentions for potent and inspired new beginnings.
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“All those things you have been dreaming about can now be supported by the fertility of this Equinox. But be careful what you ask for. Make sure it is what you want and not someone else's dream.
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“The power of this full moon will energize whatever you put into motion. It is a feminine time but supported by the masculine. A perfect combination of balance between the Sun and the Moon. So we honor both of them on this day. What do want to plant the seeds for, to give birth to, to have manifest in your life? How are you willing to take disciplined action to make it happen? What are you willing to change, give up and push through to move forward into a new landscape?
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“It is definitely a day to honor the Equinox and Full Moon in some ceremonial way and if you can do it with support and community, all the better.” — www.thepowerpath.com
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WEDNESDAYS at AY^AM de Tesuque:
915-1015a Bowl Tea 
1045a-12p Poetry of the Body Qigong
1215-130p Eagle Claw Sword
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2-330p Eagle Claw Gongfu + Taiji
345-445p Eight Treasures (Ba Duan Jin) Qigong
515-615p Bowl Tea
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DAY 890. Yesterday, my weekly day offline and off-screen, I sat for my first outdoor tea ceremony of the year. It was a day rich with ample meditation, multiple Qigong sessions barefoot on the earth, and inspiration like scent of lilac on the etheric air (soon!). My favorite kind of days and the best medicine for me are the ones like this. Today again I was outside most of the daylight hours; I even had my laptop set up on my little rug out there after my tea sit.
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This is Wei Qi Activating + Cleansing Qigong, which is so very beneficial while the seasons are changing and the weather fluctuates greatly between the days (and also between the hours). Every time the sun went behind a cloud and the breeze blew, I got a little chilly, but otherwise I felt hot.
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The Wei Qi is our protective Qi, and to bolster it here with this Qigong form means we’re supporting the immune system. The scarf protects my Wind Point (a place where external pathogens often make their entry into our systems); the Qigong form supports that, too.
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​DAY 889. Barefoot in the morning, creatures all, we know you are near, Spring, bringer of the new, the fresh, the just born. But until you arrive in your full Wood expression, I call on the bridge element, Earth. May you guide us by your stable ground, your nurturing hand in ours, and your allowing embrace holding space for all that will be.
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This is Alchemy of the Self, an Earth Element Qigong form to support the work of Spleen and Stomach in digestion and absorption— not just of the food and fluids we ingest, but the digestion and absorption of the experiences, feelings, and information we take in mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.
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DAY 888. Called the cranes yesterday, with Qigong like a beacon into the sky, a message pulse, a clear bell resonating on the frequency of Crane essence. Yesterday’s Yin Crane Qigong became today’s sighting: a pair of Sandhill Cranes.
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I’ve never seen just two; their migration path both north in spring and south in winter falls over our house and a flock of twelve is small. It was extra special and more specific a feeling to see only two birds there, high in the sky, their call distinguished, one at a time as opposed to a quiet-by-distance symphony of song from their typically large group.
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These two cranes were singing to each other, circling around each other, and leading the way for all the rest to follow. They will, too— soon— and for every time I hear their gurgle song I will stop whatever I’m doing and stand with my face to the sky in wonder and admiration of this great bird.
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PS If you zoom in you can see a heron there, perched on a rock in the river; watch him take off into sky also (swoon). Wish I was practicing Yin Yang Herons Carry the River, darn it. I was filming for this month’s Qigong Lesson Film— this is my fourth time recording this one and I finally got the shot. So many factors have to come together to make those movies and I’m extremely particular about getting it right. If you subscribe to the Lesson Films, look for this one soon!
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THE WARRIOR PRIESTESS WAY. Five Elements, Five Seasons, Five Qigong + Tea Immersions. This series of intensive study training is for women who wish to cultivate the Warrior Priestess within— the one who holds the moon and grips the sword together as one act. We walk this path with one foot grounded deeply in Discipline and the other treading, etheric, in Grace. While Spring’s Wood Element Immersion is sold out, Summer’s Fire Element and Late Summer’s Earth Element Immersion dates are soon to be announced; please sign up for the mailing list to be notified when doors open for signup.
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DAY 887. When in Qigong practice, just as it is during times of tapping one’s intuitive field, there is a heightened sense of confidence that directly stems from the softened state, both of the mind and the body. I could easily replace the word confidence with trust, kinship, understanding, or allowing, for all of these qualities are born from this relaxed, attuned state. It is unity by way of letting go.
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John Keats once wrote of what he called Negative Capability, which seems to point to this very state. Keats described Negative Capability as when one is “capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.”
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From the place of fully being with what is, we can tune our own personal vibration to that of the whole. If we can hold this space without the need to know more than what we sense in simply being, that is when truth begins to ring through us at a frequency we can understand. This is the place of intuition, of soul-remembering, of knowing.
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THE WARRIOR PRIESTESS WAY. Five Elements, Five Seasons, Five Qigong + Tea Immersions. This series of intensive study training is for women who wish to cultivate the Warrior Priestess within— the one who holds the moon and grips the sword together as one act. We walk this path with one foot grounded deeply in Discipline and the other treading, etheric, in Grace. While Spring’s Wood Element Immersion is sold out, Summer’s Fire Element and Late Summer’s Earth Element Immersion dates are soon to be announced; DM me to be tagged when doors open for signup.
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​DAY 886. Fifteen swords arrived in the mail today— twelve of wood, three of steel; all hold Metal Element medicine. I look forward to working with those who have been called to hold them, those who hold the moon, those Warrior Priestesses who will gather here in New Mexico come the next New Moon.
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​DAY 885. We begin as a seed—in stillness, silence, and darkness—we listen. We wait for the song of the earth to coax us out from within the womb of soil and loam. We hold the seed of the self between the palms as precious as a diamond. And when it’s time to move, we allow ourselves to germinate, feeling the movement begin from deep within.
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The form begins like this. It is Gung Li Qigong for the cultivation of authentic personal power. It translates to Power Fist and comes from the Eagle Claw Gongfu form. The form is a journey itself, taking one from the embryonic state of a seed nestled in the earth to the great tree on which the Eagle perches, strong, resilient, and true.
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All day practice @_ay.am_ de Tesuque. Grateful for this sanctuary for silence-seekers. Such a deep drop in today.
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​DAY 884. This morning was warm and the birds sang loudly. The clouds rose like smoke. Everything was dripping.
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​DAY 883. Today we were gifted our first thunder rumble of the season. Raining on and off all day, the morning began with the sun, and I watched the thick ceiling of clouds make its way to us from the north. It brought a light, steady shower while I sat for tea with two cats in my lap and the dog on the next rug over. When the thunder groaned the cats growled and the dog stood up with eyes wide and alert.
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Sound on for the coyote song.
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345-445p Eight Treasures (Ba Duan Jin) Qigong
515-615p Bowl Tea
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​DAY 882. When describing Yin and Yang (pronounced with an “a” like in the word, awe,) I rarely use the words feminine and masculine. Those aspects do have a place in the distinct differences in quality, but they are by no means the main essence of Yin and Yang, and cultural meaning of the terms “feminine” and “masculine” can be misleading because in this regard they don’t have much to do with gender or sex at all.
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I would describe Yang as the heavenly, the expressive, the rising, the light, the clear, the buoyant, the reaching, the firm, the active, the sun. Yin is the earthly, the receptive, the sinking, the dark, the dense, the still, the silent, the soft, the yielding, the moon. Every aspect of this physical reality has both Yin and Yang parts; this is represented by the spot of its opposite within each half of the swirled circle when looking at the Yin Yang symbol.
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In Qigong theory, the right side of the body is considered Yang; the left side is Yin. Many martial and internal arts schools, working within gender binary structures, have traditionally taught that males should cover the Dantien with the right hand on the outside, and that females should cover with the left on the outside. This makes a sweeping assumption that all males need to tonify their Yin and all females need to tonify their Yang.
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I was not taught this way of using left and right. When you practice with me, there are no set rules that males must do it this way, females another way. It is up to you, and how you feel in the moment, as to which hand covers the other. What we’re effectively doing, with the right hand over the left (what other teachers may say is proper for males), is nourishing the Yin. The supposed method for females would be the left hand (the Yin side) covering the right (the Yang), which means we’re nourishing the Yang.
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I do not believe the distinction can be so rigidly prescribed based on gender or sex. I believe the body knows whether it needs Yin or Yang tonifying; it depends on the individual, and the present state of that individual. This is why I recommend letting the body tell you what it needs. Let the body choose rather than the mind.
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Today’s form is the Inner Purity Alignment form one more time— the same form as the last two posts, but now we’ve added the sinking and rising in the stance.
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​DAY 881. “Find the perfection in every moment instead of trying to make every moment perfect.” ―Donnalynn Civello ( @donnalynncivello )
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This is the Inner Purity Alignment form (yesterday’s post was the seated variation). One could say it’s Qigong for Perfectionists; there is a required level of openness to make mistakes simply because the sequencing is kind of a brain-twister; this space to err cultivates a visceral sense of inner purity.
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When I practice this form it feels a lot like the way intuition works— the key to knowing which way to move is to soften your focus, relax your vision, and gaze with the whole scope of your mind’s eye. The answers aren’t spelled out for us; the intuition speaks in symbols, archetypes, senses, and emotions. 
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Much like the softening necessary to receive intuitive guidance, finding alignment isn’t about forcing the parts into their “correct” places. Alignment— whether physical, energetic, or spiritual— arises through the kind of listening that inspires curiosity, interest, and even wonder. Alignment is born in the relaxed state of the non-judging witness.
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​DAY 880. “We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the Earth or we are not going to have a human future at all.” 
―Vandana Shiva
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Sisters, I love you all.
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Sometimes my Qigong practice happens spontaneously; today, directly after my tea sit. This form says:
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“You are perfect as you are, in all your imperfections.”
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“You are healed and whole right now; you need not seek wholeness outside of yourself.”
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“Aligning to your highest self is easier than you think. Don’t try so hard— it’s right there for you at all times.”
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​DAY 879. My dog, Greta, is a Great Pyrenees. She is very intelligent and knows how to make these movies with me; as soon as she sees the tripod she knows we’re walking to film. She has an extremely high rate of doing just what I like for her to do when she makes appearances in them: lie down calmly and be still. But every once in a while she doesn’t play along.
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Today at the river she was especially amped up. Greta is an athletic dog and you all rarely get to see her in her full run plus leap and spin a 360 mode, tongue hanging out in joy, 100 pounds of pure love coming right at you. She’s such a gentle being that she never jumps up. She is super Qi-sensitive and knows when a person needs extra space.
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Anyway, I was filming for the next Qigong Lesson Film and she was just not in the mood for still and silent. She was sprinting along the riverbank, leaping into the water while scooping it up in her open mouth, then bounding out and into a full run, only to charge through the willow thicket as though it offered absolutely no obstacle for her at all.
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There is a great joy we humans can have by seeing our animal companions happy and healthy. But man. I’ve got some fancy editing to do on this footage if I’m going to be able to use it— the romping puppy Qi is not exactly the most serene of energies, as soothing as it is to see a dog at play.
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P.S. There’s also a honeybee who shows up. Similar to the energetic dog Qi, I can’t say the hum of a single bee around the speaker is the most settling of sounds, but it is such a delight to know she’s out and about— one of the very first bees I’ve seen this year!
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DAY 878. New Moon Qi. Tonight’s movie wrapping up all my feels.
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This morning the sun came back and the temperature rose quick. The ice on the trees melted within an hour— two at most— and each one stood in its own rainfall. They were all glistening, radiantly shimmering, and cleaner than we’ve ever seen them before, having had thoroughly washed off all the fine red earth that the wind kicks up in layers over everything out here.
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​DAY 877. The snow is not on the ground. It’s crystallized around the branches, needles, trunks, and limbs of all the trees. It clings to all the bushes and shrubs. It highlights every stalk of grass, long and arching with the weight of the ice, and the stark white lines make the world look like a dream snow world.
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Up close on the Cholla cacti you can see the ice crystal forms, intricate designs that follow the thin spines and become bulbous on each point. As if the poisonous “Stay back” message of these spines have energetically altered the ice into tiny ice blossoms— a visual sting.
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​DAY 876. It’s wild how drastically the weather can change between where we live and town. I drove out of our winter crystal land of ice and fog, and halfway to my destination the weather suddenly shifted.
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The sky was still overcast but the temperature rose so strikingly that all the ice covering the hood of my car spontaneously melted in a matter of a few seconds, raining backward across my windshield. The temp gauge had gone from 25 to 47 in just minutes.
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I had been on my way to VESSEL | Santa Fe (see the comments below for what that is) and the warmth and sun that met me there made it feel like I had entered our dear temple of a practice space from beyond the Mists of Avalon. Indeed, the work that was held there was potent and old— those who feel called to be there for next month’s Ceremonial Community Reading, please DM me and I’ll put you on the list to be tagged when dates are announced soon. These events are likely to fill instantly and we want everyone to have the chance to attend.
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VESSEL | Santa Fe 
 
We invite you to join us for the next Ceremonial Community Reading with Seer @janeannethomas of @houseofthestandingmoon . Vessel is a collaborative immersive ceremonial experience with Qigong + Tea Ceremony offered by me (@kwanyinkungfu ) and Sound Bath with epically potent crystal bowl + gong vibrations by @tarynslawson_ . VESSEL is a monthly offering at @_ay.am_ de Tesuque, with our next dates to be announced soon. DM me to be tagged when they go out— spaces will swiftly fill.

​DAY 875. I love fog. Woke up to this mystical scene and went straight outside. Wednesday’s New Moon is blowing right in, described by Lena Stevens of the Power Path as “watery, dreamy, and inspiring,” which to me is a moon I can really get down with.
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We still have one spot left (as of my posting this!) for this evening’s Ceremonial Community Reading with the luminous @houseofthestandingmoon / @janeannethomas. Held at the serene roundhouse that is @_ay.am_ Tesuque. Details are in the comments for this really special event (at which I’ll be serving in tea ceremony and Qigong). But if you want to attend, act quick— DM me.
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​DAY 874. I took a little more time with this movie than I had allotted for myself today, but the sun was so pleasantly warm on my skin. After practice I walked around the arroyo looking for rock treasures.
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Since I was a child I’ve been walking around Nature with my eyes turned earthward. It satisfies something within me— that treasure hunt. When you scan the ground searching for that one very special rock, shell, piece of driftwood, or fallen leaf, then everything begins to look special. I end up admiring so many rocks I would’ve normally skipped right over.
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I’m super honored to stand alongside @houseofthestandingmoon / @janeannethomas in her luminous new offering @_ay.am_ Tesuque. I’ll be supporting by offering Tea Ceremony + a brief Qigong session. VESSEL is a Ceremonial Community Readings series taking place once a month; the first of them all being held this SUNDAY (tomorrow) MARCH 3rd as we head in to Wednesday’s New Moon in the Vedic sign of the male lion (Purva Bhadrapada).
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Offered at a ($40 - $70) sliding scale you’ll be given the opportunity to be ritually received and smudged (by @eveladyapples ); sit for silent tea ceremony; gentle QiGong; 1hr of reading for the group and brief sharing; as well as a sound bath (by @tarynslawson_ ) to conclude the night. ⁣⁣⁣
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Space is very limited, so please DM me today to reserve your spot.
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