My Family: Me, Jack, and our daughters Sky (newly 1) and River (almost 4) on the top of Mt. Jue in Shanxi Province A family pilgrimage through China for my Qi Gong Teacher Shifu Wang’s 89th birthday This spring my family and I went to China. We went so that I could travel with my qigong teacher, Heiner, to visit our teacher, Master Wang Qingyu, whom we call Shifu Wang, for his eighty-ninth birthday. That was the heart of it, the initial reason for the trip. That, and getting

If you have been feeling the heat this year, the sense that everything is moving faster than you can quite keep pace with, that the things you have been carrying are either catching fire or asking to be set down, you are not imagining it. We are in the Year of the Fire Horse, the first since 1966 and the only one for another sixty years, and it is yang fire stacked upon yang fire: the Horse already a galloping, restless, freedom-seeking yang fire, and the year’s stem pouring

Qigong is not just movement—it is a practice of harmonizing body, mind, and universe through sensation, breath, and trust in nature’s intelligence. Hi, I’m Tara Radsliff, a licensed Worsley Classical 5-Element Acupuncturist and Qi Gong teacher based in Portland, Oregon. I guide people in practices that support stress relief, body awareness, and overall well-being through movement, breath, and energy work. Tara in Universe Stance at Oregon Park in Portland, OR Origins of Qi Go

Honoring the Wisdom of the Seasons in Classical East Asian Medicine Hi, I’m Tara Radsliff, a licensed Worsley Classical 5-Element...