by Kristina | Sep 17, 2015 | Learn Qigong in Bend, Oregon Qigong, Qigong in Bend Oregon
Ideas shoot through my awareness like summer meteors in the Perseid shower. As I try to harness wild interests and choose my topic for September, I slip back to being 10 years old, trying to separate a reluctant saddle horse from our shifting herd. A gangly gray and...
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...
by Kristina | Oct 8, 2014 | Energy Work in Bend Oregon, Learn Qigong in Bend, Qigong in Bend, Uncategorized
Nearly half a century ago I learned this crucial design principle: All emphasis is No Emphasis. If you paint an object bright red to stand out, don’t set it against a bright red wall. The same applies in our lives, for high functioning we need down time in...
by Kristina | Jul 3, 2014 | Angels, Bend, Learn Qigong in Bend, Oregon, Qigong, Qigong in Bend Oregon
Our local treasure, poet Judy Montgomery, brought the book Visions of Angels to my June Qigong workshop. The book’s transcendent photos reawakened my memory of the day Archangel Uriel appeared to me. I’d never heard of “him,” and didn’t...