Take away the lessons but leave all the rest behind.

Sit calmly on your lotus and remember that you are truly limitless.
The whole universe resides in you, as you.

Happy Year of the Wood Snake.
May we all ascend and become light enough to stand on a gossamer wing.

When you board a train for a long journey, you don’t keep holding your bags in hand. Put your burdens down. You will still get to your destination. If you enjoy the ride, you just might get to see a Cooper’s hawk perched on a tree or a flock of geese flying in formation overhead. Follow the Tao.

Beauty in the Qi 

This dance project is an opportunity to share the path from intellect to wisdom. 

 When we are younger we are rewarded for acquiring skills and knowledge, cataloging it, bragging about it, exploiting it.  If we are not careful, this path can lead to vanity, carelessness, delusions, poor choices and suffering – even if you are loving and kind.  Only later did this dancer realize that awakening was meant to be my path.  The opportunity  to face the shadow side, delusion – maya.  Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom requires a lot of letting go, compassion, fortitude and love. Lifetime after lifetime until the moment comes when you finally escape samsara – the wheel of birth and death and birth and death. So for the brief moments we are together, I do not want to just entertain the audience, I want to inspire them to reconnect to Self, their true nature, innate happiness and real power. Through the ancient gateways of Qigong, Wushu and dance, I believe and practice Movement as Medicine.  Thank you Grandmaster Chen for all of your patience and guidance with this dancer.

 "The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star
but to go one's way in life and working unerringly,
neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause."

                                             - Gustav Mahler