Author: kathyyep

Update: No class Tu 10/14, Th 10/16, Su 10/19: Next class Tue 10/21

by kathyyep

Hello — a nourishing practice this morning. Some shares included moving as if brush painting a giant canvas; in a moment of irritation what is the lesson or pearl; and feeling multiple connections like rhizomatic roots — internal, the physical space, the qì field….

UPDATE: The next practice will be TUES 10/21. No practice Tu 10/14, Th 10/16, Su 10/19

Be well.

No class Tue 9/30, next class Thu Oct 2

by kathyyep

Thank you for this morning’s practice! There will be no class on Tuesday 9/30 due to a neurology appointment. Still struggling with cognitive fatigue and sudden drain of brain energy when reading, writing, and speaking for more than an hour. Sadly on medical leave again this Fall semester. Qì Gōng and community of practice helps! Send good energy for dialogue, deep listening, and action items by and through the HMO!

Our next practice will be Thursday October 2 and celebrating a new month and the Fall season.

Sending gratitude for our practice today — a generous sharing of a green toy car, musings over stagnation and creating an idea of letting the qi rest and restore through imagining a qi nap, playing with groundedness and stretching up and out, and pondering the interplay of nonviolent change,qì gōng, moral injury, wrathful compassion and indigenous practices of emptiness (E. Duran).

Starting 8/12: 8a.m., Tue, Thu, Sun

by kathyyep

LIVE ONLINE DROP IN QÌ GŌNG

FALL 2025 SEMESTER SCHEDULE: STARTING THIS WEEK 8/12/25

TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS, SUNDAYS

8 A.M. – 8:30 A.M PT . 

The journey of healing from the mild traumatic brain injury continues. I fell in April and hit my head stepping off an exercise machine. And so, tending to my balance and rehabbing new symptoms emerged – clawed toes.

I continue with qì gōng because it is nourishing. I am facilitating less qi gong as I continue with rehab. And, I find joy in moving mindfully with a community.

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 $1- $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. Poems, seeds, cards, quotes, art and offerings also welcome.  

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.”

WHERE: For the live online sessions, click here or go to https://pitzer.zoom.us/j/513664738

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May all beings do no harm and be free from harm.

From 7/19 on:practice sessions 6 a.m. HT/ 9 a.m. PT/ noon ET

by kathyyep

Hello, community of practitioners…. Our practice group will continue to meet on zoom at the new time 6 a.m. HT/ 9 a.m. PT/ noon ET for 30 minutes of practice and then some folks stay and talk and share experiences with practice.

Today insights from Kuwa Jasiri, Debbie, Bonnie, Liz, Simone, Pati we’re shared and they orbited in different ways about returning home whether a physical place, to the body as it needs to move or unable to move, to the present moment at this age with a sense of temporality.

With our collective reflections on home today, coming home to my body and brain is not just when it feels good. The cycle of head pain and then ease has returned. New insights and remembering about listening to the present moment —- the different birds at sunrise and the coqui frogs at sunset, my head when it starts to feel pain and cognitive fatigue sets in after a short time, my mind and its critique of cognitive fatigue, and when needing to rest the brain.

I am reminded that one can not run away or numb out. That qì gōng or contemplative practice is an invitation to be with the present moment. It is a practice of being present with and being awake to what this is in the present moment and what is here. — even with all the contradictions and the cycles.

So this is brain relaxing and feeling joyous after a swim in the ocean AND the pulsating pain of cognitive fatigue after talking with someone on the phone for 40 minutes and after 8 months of rehab after a car ran a red light and hit my car. This is the present moment of tourists streaming off of a cruise ship to drink Kona coffee AND ICE coming to a rural, small town and abducting several people who were fleeing violence and having been kidnapped in their home country who pick the coffee as workers. This is awakening to the possibility that my brain may not heal in time to return to teaching full time in a month for the academic year AND being hopeful for continued healing.

As I finish writing this, a rainbow on the horizon has appeared amid the different bird sounds of the morning. And, my head is beginning to throb from cognitive fatigue of writing for 20 minutes. I am learning to hold both with tenderness. Breathing in, I feel the physical pain. Breathing out, I smile at the rainbow and the physical pain.

Be well, Kathy