Two Hobbies Collide when Taijiquan and the Ride Become One.

I love nothing more than to be out in the elements, absorbing the Yang energy from above and the Yin energy from below.  Often you can find me out hiking the beautiful mountain ranges surrounding my home here in the Matanuska Susitna Valley in Alaska.  Its easy to meaner down the trail, finding great little spots of land to take a break for Taijiquan, Qigong, or meditation.

It was a gorgeous day in June last year when my brother rented a new 2011 Harley Davidson Fat Boy.   I had the chance to take it for a spin, and nothing can get any better than taking a ride on a Harley and shoot a video doing Taijiquan.  I’d love to see where you love to do your Taijiquan and the different hobbies that collide to harmonize into something much greater together than alone!

World Tai Chi and Qigong Day 2011: A Worldwide Community Event

BE A HEALING PART OF HISTORY!

On Saturday, April 30th, tens of thousands of people in hundreds of cities, in over 70 nations will come together … to breathe together … to provide the world a healing image of our planet and our people.

Be a part of World Tai Chi & Qigong Day 2011.  Help spread the word!

Discover if Tai Chi and Qigong are on your path to a more harmonious and balanced life.  Join our Annual Free World Tai Chi and Qigong Day event that celebrates and elaborates on the benefits of these ancient, gentle and therapeutic healing arts.

The purposes of World Tai Chi & Qigong Day are: 1) To educate the world of the profound health & healing benefits of Tai Chi & Qigong for individuals, communities, and nations, 2) To thank Chinese culture for creating and sharing these profoundly valuable gifts with the world, 3) To bring together people across racial, economic, religious, and geo-political boundaries, to join together for the purpose of health and healing, providing an example to the world, and 4) To give a powerful example of how the power of the internet can be used to foster global health & healing.

Saturday, April 30, 2011 10:00am-12:00pm
Primrose Retirement Communities, Wasilla, Alaska

Check the location on google maps here.

Photos from past events hosted by Moongate Healing Tao, Wasilla, Alaska.

For more information see Moongate Healing Tao on the Official World Tai Chi and Qigong Day website here, or at our home website here.

Spring Qi is Coming!

Spring is on the way and winter is getting further behind, even though here in Wasilla, Alaska it snowed a light blanket of white today.  It will melt soon, the puddles will be out, mud season will be upon us, and the energy from the trees, bushes, grass, and all other life is moving from deep within the earth, waking up to share its beauty with us.

Our March Tai Chi Intensive Four Flowers was excellent and those who participated deepened there understanding of the Master Gear, either creating their own form, or getting detailed understanding of how the transitions within the form work together through joint mobility, structure and body alignment.

Here is the March Newsletter.  This is a project in its infancy, so if you have any ideas, please do share them with me.  I would appreciate any feedback as well.

I’ve discovered a new hobby.  Combining photography, videography, Taijiquan, and Qigong.  I could go outside everyday and do it all, but to combine them I find is the best of all worlds.  Here is my most recent nature walk to Knik River just outside of Palmer, Alaska, April 1, 2011.  Thanks to my awesome husband Daniel, he also photographed me from a distance, which provides a different angel I cannot take myself.

This panorama was taken on my iPhone with Panorama 360.  If you have an iPhone and haven’t discovered this app, it is worth checking out!

Also check out my Spring Qigong video of Ba Duan Gin (also known as Eight Brocades).

Happy New Year of the Rabbit February 2011 Newsletter

February 2011 Newsletter here.

Check out our new schedule for March and April, upcoming events for Tai Chi Intensives (Tai Chi 24), and World Tai Chi and Qigong Day.  Also view items from our online store and purchase your own unique specialty Year of the Rabbit t-shirt, sweatshirt, mug, or other fun items.  Learn about the Kidneys and some ways they thrive in the winter.

Wave Hands Like Clouds on Lazy Mountain

We love Taijiquan here in the little town of Wasilla, Alaska.  The valleys are rimmed by three major mountain ranges: the Alaska Range, the Talkeetna Mountains and the Chugach Mountains. The surrounding mountains include many mountain passes, as well as working and abandoned gold mines. Like many parts of Alaska, the Matanuska-Susitna Valley was carved by glaciers which left many small and large lakes. Both the Matanuska and Susitna Rivers have major salmon spawning streams.  It is the most excellent place to do Taiji, Qigong, and Meditation.  If you are ever in the area, call, email, contact me and let’s play in the “Big, Wild, Life” of Alaska!

This video was captured atop the local trail of “Lazy Mountain.”  The hike is vigorous, and certainly not “lazy!”  The clouds were rolling in and I *had* to be like the clouds, so doing “Wave Hands Like Clouds,” was most appropriate.  My face is flushed from the excellent work out, yet become yin for a moment and become one with the Tao.

Wave Hands Like Clouds on Lazy Mountain 2010

For those fellow cloud lovers out there, check out The Cloud Appreciation Society, you will truly be enlightened!  I am member number #4275.

Happy New Year of the Rabbit, Cloud Style!