Greetings Friends!! Oh my, so much to share!!! I have so much to share from all that’s happening since my trek….and so much to continue to share from our trek… Dance Party in Shuhe!! So to start with a snippet of this week…I’m currently…..SO THRILLED!!!! I’m staying at a super cool youth hostel in the…
Greetings Friends!! I’m back from my first Qigong &Wilderness trek in the Tibetan Plateau…and what an adventure of a lifetime it was!!! I am soo very grateful to these exquisite highlands. We were at 13,000- 15,000 ft – my first time to ever be at such a high elevation…and to see edelweiss flowers!! Before I just…
Greetings Friends! I’m just about to start our first trek in the Tibetan Plateau of Sichuan Province!! 🙂 YAY! Wow! After so much dreaming about this particular part of my journey (our trek)….it is coming true as well (and how very appropriate that I’m currently at the Chengdu Dream Travelers Hostel! :)) One of…
Greetings Friends!! After 2.5 years of planning, dreaming, visualizing and preparing, I have finally returned to another Land I love, the land of CHINA of the Far East, the land of yummy foods, billions of people, mystic mountains, cloud temples, tango dancing and Chinese opera singing in the parks, Daoist secrets, amazing traffic, Masters and…
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…