Hello and happy lunar new year! I hope you are well. No lunar new year post because navigating cognitive fatigue. Here’s to the fire horse!
We are starting a new month on Sunday! Thank you for practicing together for February. Your presence is always welcome. If you have capacity, donating to these gofundme is welcomed or to a place of your choice:
Our last practice and reflection were powerful and humbling as we practiced tracing the meridians and then adapted to how we needed to move while rooted in qi gong principles.
Some themes as I recall that came up (brain is tired): staying connected with self and others, nourishing mercy in self and for others, casting aside childhood norms about feelings and feeling feelings as adults, sustaining communities where can unlearn and relearn.
We will have class per usual on Sundays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays except for the following days:
No class:
Sunday March 8, Tuesday March 10
Thu March 19, Sun 3/22 and Tue 3/24
The first day of spring is March 20! What do these last weeks of winter feel like and look like for you?
I was fortunate to start learning dayan/wild goose over 30 years ago.. Lately, I have been teaching small pieces of dayan/wild goose. Join us! This is a demo video of set 1.
The journey of healing from the mild traumatic brain injury continues. It has been 13 months since the car accident and about 9 months since I fell and hit my head after the accident. I am still doing rehab daily and hoping to get back to teaching, research, and life more fully. I still experience pain when I read, write, and think at the work level of a professor after an hour. Qì gōng and mindful walking have been grounding, healing, and connective.
I continue with qì gōng because it is nourishing. I find joy in moving mindfully with community and carrying forward this tradition of 1000+years in the the Yang Mei Jun lineage via the late Dr. Hu and Paul Li. My dad practices every day and he loves hearing about our practice on zoom.
Join us in practice! All abilities and bodies are welcome. No experience necessary. Offered in the spirit of generosity.
Donations accepted for community partner, Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity. No amount is too small or too big. All are welcome regardless of funds donated. (Make offerings to where and how you wish for or food, water, medicine, medical care, shelter, clothes.)
Suggested donations: sliding scale $5- $20 per session. No one turned away for lack of funds.
At the end of month donate directly to the organizations or send check or offerings to: K. Yep, P.O. Box 1313, Monterey Park, CA 91754 for the number of sessions you attended. People have sent poems, seeds, cards, quotes, art and offerings.
All levels are welcome. Bring open heart, cultural humility, and water. Come early or late. Leave early if needed. As Liz says: “Come as you are.”
We are learning and practicing with a form that is over a 1000 years old. We are meeting the movements and the form rooted in a tradition with who we are and who we are becoming from our specific social locations. It is an invitation of continuity and accompanying our selves, each other, and all beings with relaxed awareness.
As Debbie says: “Connect to playfulness”. As Simone says “Receive it as care and release the struggle.” As Penny says: “Try different ways of moving — inside to out, outside to in, from the bones, from the muscle, from the air)
Dr. Kathy Yep 