4 tips for physical & mental well-being this Spring
You've heard of these, yes? Maybe now it's time to try something here you've never tried before. Or to pick up the habit again. Call it...
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Emergence of Spring Qi Gong with Dr Kelly
The Qi Gong form we're currently practicing is known in Chinese as JinJian Gong - Strengthen and Build the Tendons. This is a powerful...
A 40 day transformational practice
“Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time,’ is like saying, ‘I don’t want to’”. -Lao Tzu When I first began studying Qi Gong...
Re-Imagining Money and Tending the Sacred
Sacred Ways Foundation is a non-profit organization begun by my husband, a good friend and I to support the resilience of indigenous...
Un-Map Your Self
This week I did something I've never yet done in my work. I postponed a commitment I made one week prior to the event. This is the...
Praising what once was - how we honor Death
Every year for the last decade, I've facilitated a Day of the Dead gathering at my home. This isn't a tradition I was raised with in my...
Lungs and the Tiger (notes with Heiner Fruehauf)
*notes from classicalchinesemedicine.org The Healthy Tiger Inside: Key Qualities of Lung Physiology Power and vitality of the physical,...
The function of the lungs in Chinese medicine
The lungs are situated in the thoracic cavity and have the throat as their door and the nose as their outlet. They are a yin organ, and...
Reborn, breathing again - the source point of the lungs (Tài Yuān - Lu9)
Tài Yuān, Great Abyss or Great Deep Pool, is the 9th point on the lung channel. It's the source point of the lungs, the influential point...
The points of autumn - Meridian Gutter (Lu8) and Merchant Yang (LI1)
Jīng Qú, (經渠) or Channel Ditch (Meridian Gutter), the 8th point on the lung channel, is a point I haven't historically used much in the...
Acupuncture - The Ancient Art of Chinese Healing
Acupuncture - the use of needles to promote healing in the body – is an ancient therapy dating back about 5,000 years to the period of...
What kind of headache is it? Busting the cluster.....
It's rare that I can't cure a headache or greatly reduce its severity and pain in the clinic. In fact, it's only happened once. In my...
The wisdom of letting go
Autumn is a season of wisdom, the wisdom that comes of age, of lived experience and the recognition of the approach and imminence of...
Nourishing Life Qi Gong - a love letter
Hello Qi Community! Master Qingyu Wang, (pictured in the photo below), is the oldest lineage holder of the Jin Jing Gong school of Qi...
Time to take radical action
I'm devastated by the latest news of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. My impulse has been to reach out to hold your hand and the...
Leaky gut, leaky skin, or both?
Theo, a sweet 10 year old, came to see me with her mom this week. When I asked what she was looking for help with, she pulled down her...
The Art of Mending What's Broken
Blessed day! Happy April and the New Moon! Today, in honor of the newness, I want to share some things I've been thinking about with you....
Having strange symptoms this Spring?
A friend wrote me this past week reporting some strange symptoms she was experiencing: "On Tuesday night I woke up during my sleep with a...
Dr Kelly and Qi Gong influencing Art(ery) by Allison Katz
When the lockdown started, and Kerstin invited me to join the group, I was amazed at the simple but life-changing aspect of turning...
Tapping in and Finding the Sweetness
We're just passing through the window of the spring equinox here in the Hudson Valley of NY. We've been collecting sap water from our...
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