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 12, 2015 | Angels, Angels In Bend Oregon, Qigong in Bend Oregon, Uncategorized
Those of you who filled my studio for Sandra Kunz’s November presentation about her Qigong trip to China may have noticed the recurring angel theme in my paintings on the walls. Or maybe not, given that Sandra kept us all fascinated with her stories....
by Kristina | Oct 30, 2015 | Qigong in Bend Oregon
This spring my friend and Chinese Essence Qigong student, Sandra Kunz, accepted an invitation to visit China with the esteemed qigong master, Huixian Chen, the beautiful woman you see in this photo. Sandra brought me the photo as a gift when she returned, and I was...
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 | 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...