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It's been a long time coming, but our next In The Beginning podcast is with Vivienne Verdon-Roe. Vivian is a long time activist, Academy Award winner, and a Wisdom Healing Qigong teacher and healer. She is a gift to all who know her and have experienced her teachings. From her website: Since getting her life… Continue reading Healing the Womb of the World

The Inner Smile meditation has its roots in Daoist tradition. It is said it was a secret practice because it's so powerful...and so simple! Inner smile acts like a homage to this form we have on earth, this beautiful body of ours. It acknowledges the physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of our organ systems and… Continue reading Inner Smile

How do you want this life to feel? One of my teachers, Celia Blackwood, produces a moon teaching every 3 days (Playing Along with the Moon.) Today, September 3, 2019, the moon is a waxing moon in Scorpio, a water moon. It's a time to meditate, journey and ritual on the deep questions and to… Continue reading Communion

"Remember Unity until you forget separation." From The Diwan of Shams i Tabriz, by Sufi poet Rumi. (From Desert Wisdom, Neil Douglas Klotz). Wholeness. Unity. Divine Source. Oneness. Pure Consciousness. God. Are we seeking, or are we being? The glory of the universe, of the divine, is in front of us and inside of us… Continue reading Remember Unity

I am still floating on a cloud of gratitude, amazement, and inner smiles. At the temple where Thich Nhat Hanh is staying, his root temple, I ran into Sister Chan Khong. She was surrounded by a few young lay women getting their pictures taken with her. I recognized her instantly as I had just finished… Continue reading Magic

Last night amidst our sightseeing we happened upon a small temple on a busy street that was clearly under renovation, but inside it was full of people (I just noticed women in light blue robes) doing prostrations. I wondered if the practice was earth-touchings from the Beginning Anew practice of the Thich Nhat Hanh communities.… Continue reading Dragonflies

Day 1, SFO. "We should all be grateful for the beauty of this world, but more, we should take the trouble to get off the bus of life and put the soles of our feet to the soul of the world and see those sacred sites with our own eyes.” We are leaving the beauty… Continue reading Pilgrimage to Asia 1

I am so honored to bring to you this conversation with Cathy Toldi, Buddhist Priest in the Soto Zen tradition, lover of life, nature, and called by the Earth to speak as Priestess Raven to bridge our understanding of who we are as part of the natural world. Cathy has been practicing Zen at Warm… Continue reading Buddhist Priest, Priestess Raven

In the Beginning NDK Podcast....During an extended standing meditation at a Chi Center retreat with Master Mingtong, the Our Father/Lord's Prayer started chanting within me. I grew up Catholic, so all those prayers and even some in Latin are part of my cellular nature--though somewhat dormant at the moment, so it was kind of surprising. The… Continue reading Jesus as Qigong Master

In the Beginning....My first podcast is finally ready! A huge shoutout to Erik Leitch, my first guest. Here's the link to the audio interview stored on my google drive. The picture referred to in the interview is below. This is the image Erik showed at a Rotary meeting that inspired me to talk with him… Continue reading Cosmology & Coffee