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

Schedule updates: starting Saturday 7/12

by kathyyep

Hello, community of practice.

I hope you are well. I am sitting in a target/starbucks to get internet access. We have tried to set up internet for the last 3 days with no luck. I am currently in a new location with a 3 hour difference for the month of July. So, here are schedule changes due to various conditions:

  • Tomorrow/Saturday 7/12 and Sunday 7/13: No practice (waiting for internet tech person)
  • Next practice and new time starting Tuesday 7/15: 6 a.m. HT/ 9 a.m. PT/ Noon ET

I have been feeling your collective presence with me as I have been practicing primordial, 3 dan tian/curtain, and sitting qì gōng with mudras at sunrise. It has been humbling and joyous to not feel physical pain in my feet/legs and head after 3 days of consecutive practice here. First time pain free for consecutive days in 7 months or since the car accident! It may come and go and for now just resting in being with this state. Okay, the Starbucks is closing so I will say goodbye. Be well Kathy

Practice schedule changes, honoring Dr. Hu, and beloved community in the face of militarism

by kathyyep

Hello beloved community…. as you know the late Dr. Bingkun Hu (pictured above) was my second teacher. With humility and gratitude, honoring the fourth anniversary of his transitioning into the spirit world.

The practice schedule this week will shift due to a gathering of Dr. Hu’s students.

THIS WEEK: Tue June 10 (today) and Thur (June 12) (no practice Sat Jun 14, Sun Jun 15)

NEXT WEEK: Tue June 17 and Thu June 19

Moving the qì and feeling the qì during this time has been meaningful during continued healing from the brain injury and the collective call for beloved community in parts of the world facing genocide and militarism and in the area I reside with increased ICE presence and militarization of Tovaangar land (colonially known as Los Angeles)

For those who are guests on Tovaangar land (colonially known as Los Angeles). interfaith vigil tonight 6 p.m. Tuesday: https://www.instagram.com/p/DKtGzHeR5J7/?img_index=1

MULTILEGAL RAPID RESPONSE LEGAL HOTLINE FOR THOSE DETAINED BY IMMIGRATION IN SOCAL : https://www.instagram.com/p/DFGgqZ1zUn-/?img_index=1

Deep bow of gratitude, Kathy

April 2025 Online Qì Gōng Practice

by kathyyep

Hello, Community of Practice,

As we begin April and find groundedness amidst the systemic and systematic chaos, above is the online qì gōng schedule. There are plentiful options in the first 2 1/2 weeks and there are no practice sessions after 4/17 for the rest of month.

Qì gōng involves movement, awareness, and breath based in traditional Chinese medicine.
As Liz, says “come as you are.”  All are welcome. Open and suitable to all whether it is 1st time practicing qì gōng or your 77th. No reservation necessary. Drop in. Come late, leave early.  Furry family and human family are welcome. 

Click on this link to go to the class:  https://pitzer.zoom.us/j/513664738

I offer this in the spirit of generosity.  At the end of the month, consider offering an action based on what you received from the sessions.  If you have time and capacity consider one of the following related to nourishing genuine security for all: 

* Donating to folks on the ground in Gaza for food, clean water, medical treatment: Middle Eastern Children Alliance (MECA). 

* Donating to our community partner Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity 

* Donating to our community partner Women for Genuine Security  

Poems, drawings, photos, a letter are welcome as alternatives.  At the end of the month, send to kathyyep@yahoo.com or to K. Yep, PO Box 1313 Monterey Park CA 91754. 

No one will be turned away due to lack of funds.

May our qì gōng practice for the benefit of all so all beings do no harm and be free from harm.  May we imagine and create the qì conditions  — where all may live from a place of abundance and interconnectedness.

Be well,
Kathy