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Yesterday I was speaking with one of my students, and we were talking about what it means to actually feel our emotions, what it means to actually be present with our feelings and emotions in the body. It's interesting, because over the last eight or nine years I've been involved with an organization that helps people work with their traumas and their emotions. One of the things I've observed in those years is that there's a growing number of people who understand that emotio

Today I want to speak about the two movements of energy within our system, because I think it's important when we do work to cultivate our own system. And I want to get into how this manifests within practices like breathwork, because breathwork is very popular nowadays, but often we only have a limited perspective, and many people don't have the understanding yet to fully discern which methods do what to our system, and what is actually appropriate for them to practice. I ha

This morning on my walk, I was reflecting on our tendencies to control, and how our subconscious convictions get intertwined with every aspect of our life and start to affect it. Because I've done a lot of in-depth work to understand my own mind better, it's become quite clear how I'm personally influenced by my own patterns, and how they manifest in the choices I've made over the course of my life. One interesting thing I find nowadays, at least in the last ten years I've be

In the Taoist traditions, and the systems they've developed, a big emphasis is always put on the dantian, the energy field around the height of the navel, slightly below it. Contrary to popular belief nowadays, not everybody necessarily has this energy field formed within their system. There's the potential. However, in most of us, this field has become dispersed for various reasons. A big part of it relates to our lifestyle: a lack of movement, an excess of emotion and stimu

Yesterday I was listening to a lecture by my Qigong teacher, Damo Mitchell. He was speaking about the difference between traditional internal cultivation of the system compared to modern external forms, and I thought it was very interesting. He pointed out some things I've intuitively sensed myself but haven't been able to really put words to. He was speaking about the fact that a lot of modern modalities—yoga, qigong, all these different practices that have been systematized