by Kristina | Sep 5, 2014 | Art classes in Bend Oregon, Bend, Qigong in Bend Oregon
September school mornings were always sunny in 1956 when I was in first grade, the sky hard and brilliant as a turquoise. I’d tie on my saddle shoes (the brown and tan kind I’d polished the night before) and try not to scuff them walking the half mile dirt...
by Kristina | Feb 28, 2014 | Art classes in Bend Oregon, Creativity and Healing in Bend Oregon, Learn Qigong in Bend, Qigong in Bend Oregon
I read the obituaries compulsively, who has died and how much older (please) than I were they? How fast do I have to work to complete all my projects before I die? Life’s quality isn’t measured in length, but in what we become in those years. I’ve...
by Kristina | Feb 4, 2014 | Art classes in Bend Oregon, Art in Bend, Creativity and Healing in Bend Oregon, Learn Qigong in Bend, Qigong in Bend Oregon, Uncategorized
Your body and brain make love to each other when you dare to create –– excited neurons firing like crazy passion when you dance, sing, write, act, sculpt, paint, express your own vision, however strange or transgressive it may seem. Of course you can! I heard you out...
by Kristina | Aug 1, 2013 | Art classes in Bend Oregon, Art in Bend Oregon, Energy Work in Bend, Learn Qigong in Bend, Qigong in Bend Oregon
August in Bend, Oregon, is a time to be outdoors, in the mountains, on the rivers, in the garden, celebrating with gratitude our place in the natural world, our gifts of sunshine and clean air. That’s what I’m doing, and I hope you are, too. My classes and...
by Kristina | May 4, 2013 | Art classes in Bend Oregon, Art in Bend Oregon, Blog, Creativity and Healing in Bend Oregon, Oregon Qigong, Qigong in Bend
This warm day I’m treasuring quiet – occasional bird song through an open window, my studio fountain evoking a small mountain spring, now and then a breeze stirring a wind chime, that’s all. I’ve lived enough years in cities to appreciate the rarity...
by Kristina | Apr 8, 2013 | Art classes in Bend Oregon, Creativity and Healing in Bend Oregon, Oregon Qigong, Qigong in Bend
Ancient truths become new again, pleasure is good medicine. Beauty helps us heal, qigong meditation lowers stress, singing and dancing with others reduces anxiety and depression, good olive oil is beneficial in our diets…just a few theories scientists have...
