by Kristina | Jan 30, 2017 | Qigong, Qigong in Bend Oregon, Uncategorized
“In dark times be the light.” I don’t know who I’m quoting, so many wise people have said this. As we pass through these dark times, let’s put the emphasis on the verb. Everything passes. We have choices in how we ride it out. My...
by Kristina | Dec 19, 2014 | Bend, Qigong, Qigong in Bend, Qigong in Bend Oregon, Uncategorized
The word Impermanence tells us that all things end – you, me, everything we love on this earth, everyone who’s ever loved us. It implies sadness, loss, the darkness of grief. But my favorite holiday, the Winter Solstice, shows us that light returns. Sorrow...
by Kristina | Nov 6, 2014 | Bend, Qigong, Qigong in Bend Oregon, Uncategorized
A hike along the Deschutes between Dillon and Benham Falls in golden October left my husband and me giddy with our good fortune in having made our home here. It’s harder to maintain that level of delight in these chilly and abruptly short days. I was feeling the...
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...
by Kristina | Jun 4, 2014 | Energy Work in Bend Oregon, Learn Qigong in Bend, Qigong, Qigong in Bend Oregon
Looking out through the heart’s eye is like seeing through polarized sunglasses — the emotional glare is cut. Vision filtered through anger or fear, envy or resentment, distorts and highlights the flaws in everyone and everything. The heart’s...
by Kristina | Apr 6, 2014 | Energy Work in Bend Oregon, Learn Qigong in Bend, Oregon Qigong, Qigong, Qigong in Bend Oregon
What makes a poet? Daring to make something named a poem. Can you be a poem? Can you be a beautiful story, or a song? How many unsung stories or untold poems whisper in your mind? What do you have to lose if you dare to give them voice? If you live ...
