Seated Qigong
Qigong ~ 40 minute video
Join Augusta Hopkins as she demonstrates qigong. This 40 minute video slowly guides you through the basic practices of the ancient Chinese art of Qigong. Practices include: standing meditation tortoise human microcosmic orbit swing hands I, II & III parting clouds I, II & III qi shower This Qigong video includes Standing Meditation, Swing Hands […]
30 min body scan
Aikido Story "Another Way"
During the day of mindfulness meditation practice I read an excerpt by Terry Dobson published in How Can I Help? compiled by Ram Dass. Terry Dobson was riding on a train in Japan, when a drunken man boarded. Although he knew that aikido is the art of reconciliation, in his youthful eager way, he wanted to engage in physical combat […]
30 min body scan
The Observer – Uganda’s first Buddhist monk
Many Ugandans travel to India for a university education expecting to return with a degree. But what happens when a child returns in not three but seven years’ time, and not with a degree but as a Buddhist yogi? This is the story of Venerable Bhikku Buddharakkhita, Uganda’s first and only Buddhist monk. Born in […]
Eight weeks to a better brain
Eight weeks to a better brain
Pain is not a punishment. Pleasure is not a reward.
October 2010 at the Craneway Pavilion in Richmond CA, Pema Chodron shared a story about Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. He blessed a bride and groom at a wedding ceremony by taking out a paper fan and hitting them gentle over the head, back and forth saying to each, “pain is not punishment, pleasure is not a […]
The Moment is Perfect, Thich Nhat Hanh, Shambhala Sun, May 2008.
The Moment is Perfect By Thich Nhat Hanh No matter what we experience when we’re meditating, it only has meaning when we take it out into our daily lives. There is nothing we experience—from the simple act of eating to the complications of work and relationships—that we cannot approach with the mindfulness and compassion we […]
Plum Village
The Most Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh (Thây), our spiritual teacher, founded the Unified Buddhist Church (Eglise Bouddhique Unifieé) in France in 1969, during the Vietnam war. Thich Nhat Hanh is a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, a poet, a scholar, and a peace activist. His life long efforts to generate peace and reconciliation moved Martin Luther King, […]
