Lately, I’ve been getting up before anyone in the house and spending an hour doing very unstructured wuji. Giving that time to just feel what wants to come up as a way to frame my life and my day. It is a time to explore, to be honest, to see what is real. To engage…
Category: Qigong
Moving from the Source: Riffs on True Embodimennt
These days, my religion is just walking around. The sutra I’m chanting is this form in space. I’m not interested in yes or no or smart or dumb. I’m worshiping the light beneath my feet. What is it that is stepping? Walking? Standing? Sitting? Laying down? What is it that is holding us up?…
Expressing Something True
It can be extremely helpful if someone acknowledges what we’ve been experiencing in our own internal process or we happen to read or hear someone talk about something which we’ve been experiencing, but no one else seems to understand. It can be a lifesaver. Or at least reading or hearing them talk about some of…
The Most Intense Person in the Room
For all of you folks out there who are always the most intense person in the room, or are waiting for everyone to notice the subtext, or can feel other people as yourself, or are a walking pressure cooker, or can’t get yourself going in one direction, or you feel like an exposed nerve, or…
The Importance of Feeling Qi in Qigong
I’d like to occasionally share little snippets of what comes to mind while practicing in hopes that it might inspire others. When doing energetic practices such as Qigong, I want to emphasize how important it is to feel the Qi. We must find our own way to engage with this energy. It is not…
The Embodiment Podcast: Episode 187 Zen Body with Corey Hess
Here is an interview Corey did with Mark Walsh on The Embodiment Podcast. Thanks for listening! Enjoy! Please share it! https://embodiedfacilitator.com/187-zen-body-corey-hess/?fbclid=IwAR3-rb3SnFXDG6oBxQddWhLgYsrksEDBkaQeMRn_J_c0HuM5S26zXtbiRbM
Zhan Zhuang: Qi Flow and Emotional Molting
If you have not read my previous post about Zhan Zhuang, I recommend it before reading this one. This post further describes how to engage with Zhan Zhuang. When doing Zhan Zhuang (ZZ), after we have warmed up and done Wuji for five minutes, we put our hands in a certain position, like for instance…
Zen Embodiment’s 5 Most Popular Blog Posts
Thank you for reading my blog! Below are the all time most popular posts. Breathing from the Belly: Tanden, a Great Rolling Ball Describing Traditional Rinzai Koan Training A great love affair Just standing around Zhan Zhuang, Standing Like a Tree Breaking Through: Sublime and Natural These are not necessarily my favorite. I will do…
Zhan Zhuang, Standing Like a Tree
One practice that really helped me in the beginning to go deeper into my zazen, and continues to keep me healthy in my life every day, is a type of Chi Kung first introduced to me in the monastery by a fellow training person. It is Zhan Zhuang, “Standing Like a Tree” and it involves…
A great love affair Just standing around
I have been involved in a great secret love affair for 20 years! I am very much in love with Non-Directed Body Movement, or just “Standing around”. Non-Directed Body Movement (NDMB) began with an Osteopathic doctor and Rolfer, Marvin Solit, who in the late sixties decided to give up all of his medical equipment. “I’m…
