I recently completed another 10 days of training with my qigong grandmaster, Mingtang Xu (许明堂 – Xu Mingtang in Chinese 🙂 Last name is said first), who is the lineage holder and Grandmaster of ZY Qigong. (You can see pictures of our retreat at this link). While I met and studied with him in 2005 at Shaolin…
Greetings Friends!!! My time in Inner Mongolia has been so rich and fulfilling as well. Have some of you been here? (I know my dear friend Robert Xie has – as he’s from here – we actually came here on a trip together in 1999 – but not to Chifeng – we were in a…
Greetings Friends! Oh so much to say! My last few days in Zhengzhou have been filled with so much richness, so much love, love, LOVE, laughs and more LOVE. I feel deeply blessed to have such a profoundly beautiful and loving ‘Chinese family’ :)!! 2 days ago when Ayi came back from a weekend at…
Greetings Friends!!! WOW!!! I have sooooo much to say!!! I haven’t been writing much in the last week as so much is happening in the remaining days (for this trip) in Zhengzhou. Remember when I mentioned that the reporters came to interview me – and they came to the clinic the day I ‘ganmao le’…
Greetings Friends! I am so moved and deeply touched. yesterday Dr. Zhao’s ‘Gege’ – his older brother whom I call Da Bai — came by the clinic again. What I didn’t tell you in our last exchange is that he said he was going to write a poem for me and write it out in…
Greetings Friends! Oh my two dear new friends, Su Mengwei and Tai Mengyu are sooooo sweet!! Today they came by the clinic today when I was about to leave to see if I had developed the pictures we had taken together last week (I had told them I was going to have them later this…
Greetings Friends! YAY! The reporter and I have been playing phone tag and yesterday it finally worked out for both of us for him to come by and take pictures of me writing to you (he was actually taking the pictures right as I was typing this paragraph :)) And he took pics of me…
Greetings Friends, My friend, Richard (many of you in the qigong community know him :)) is here – he just got here yesterday and last night the 2 of us went on another outing to the park with Dr. Zhao! 🙂 This time I remembered my camera and took some pictures (and several videos) of…
Greetings Friends! Wow! Yesterday I had the joy of meeting 2 beautiful grade school girls – who then walked with me all the way back to my hotel! I walk by a school ground everyday on my way to clinic and on my way home. So far I’ve been the ‘yang wa wa’ – ‘western…
Greetings Friends! Yesterday I had my first biking adventure in China – for this visit! 🙂 My last time in China in 2005 some of you may remember I was so excited about biking again when I lived in Beijing for 1 month that I bought the very first bike I found — without inspecting…