Wellness – Dr. Kathy Yep

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

Hello, We are ending a joyous month of practice and beginning a new month. There is some schedule changes in March and it is listed above.

I hope to see you at our practice sessions: Generally, Tu, Th, Sa, Su, 8 – 8:30 a.m. PT.
All are welcome. Open and suitable to all. Come as you are. Come late, leave early. Furry family are welcome to join on screen. No reservation necessary. Drop in.

Zoom link: https://pitzer.zoom.us/j/513664738

I offer this in the spirit of generosity. If you have time and capacity consider one of the following related to nourishing dignity and respect 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

* Take an action of your own choice to support treating all with dignity and respect.

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

Poems, drawings, photos, seeds, a letter are welcome as an option. Send to kathyyep@yahoo.com or to K. Yep, PO Box 1313 Monterey Park CA 91754.

Thank you for your donations and offerings.

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