A Space for Insight and Reflection

A healthy lifestyle includes living and acting in harmony with the seasons and the cycles of nature.

During autumn, our environment becomes more and more yin. As harvests are finishing up, a pleasant stillness arrives. It is the time of the

In aligning ourselves with the seasonal cycles, we are wise to take our cues from nature: The animals are in hibernation. The plants are goi

We are now entering the first days of winter - the time of the solar cycle when there is wisdom in slowing down to calibrate with nature's rhythms. According to Taoist medical theory, a huge cause of disease is a failure to live in accordance with the cycle of the seasons. As the planet rotates around the sun, it moves through progressive phases which invite corresponding shifts in conduct. Every two weeks, we enter a different qi node, or cycle. Each cycle invites us to shi

How can we let the transformative quality of fire move through us in a good way? It is tempting to focus on the dramatic evidence of loss al

Many things have reminded me of Liu Ming lately, using the tea pot I got from him, a certain incense smell, a moment in a ritual, and a...

I have been contemplating grace – this mysterious elegance that asks us to surrender to what is present in life while navigating an exploration of what it is we actually want. How can we live into this inquiry of grace in light of essential energies at work in all things? A balance of yin and yang – of action and non-action, grace requires a balance of the 5 elements: water, wood, fire, earth, and metal. Water surrenders into evolving and resting in the mystery of not knowi