by Kristina | Jan 9, 2019 | Bend, Oregon bookstores, Uncategorized
My new YA novel Nowever is only days away from publication! It will have its first “outing” at Roundabout Books in Bend’s Northwest Crossing on Saturday, March 16th. I’m honored to be included with Nowever in...
by Kristina | Nov 12, 2016 | Bend, Creativity and Healing in Bend Oregon
“This doesn’t feel like my country anymore,” a friend told me over brunch in a Manhattan vegan restaurant, while a young man with a shiny lip ring and no eyebrows above his lettuce-green eyes sweetly served our black bean enchiladas with cashew...
by Kristina | Jul 9, 2015 | Bend, Creativity and Healing in Bend Oregon, Qigong in Bend Oregon, Uncategorized
How did you finish that sentence in your mind? Quickly now, without over-thinking it, what’s the dream lurking behind all you do, maybe right at the surface, maybe hidden in the depths? Big dream or small, makes no difference, if matters to you, it’s...
by Kristina | May 12, 2015 | Bend, Creativity and Healing in Bend Oregon, Energy Work in Bend Oregon, Learn Qigong in Bend, Qigong in Bend Oregon
Memory is the story you tell yourself. It’s selecting one position in time and space, one arrangement of vibrating atoms to represent what “you” (that mysterious observing consciousness) identify as you, then clustering multiple selections together...
by Kristina | Jan 31, 2015 | Bend, Learn Qigong in Bend, Qigong in Bend Oregon
A movie as spiritual practice? Why not? For more people than you might guess watching the 1993 classic Groundhog Day each February is a beloved ritual. It’s not a bad idea. The Bill Murray character is caught in a loop re-living February 2nd again and again. At...
by Kristina | Jan 10, 2015 | Bend, Creativity and Healing in Bend Oregon, Energy Work in Bend Oregon, Learn Qigong in Bend, Qigong in Bend Oregon
When you learn Qigong you’ll feel your abundant life energy expand into dimensions you may not yet sense. I recently spoke about Qigong in Bend’s Old Stone Church and led the audience in some introductory exercises. In response, one man commented that the...
