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Expanding awareness through conscious travelling, meditation, insight practice, and authentic relationships. Philosophical musings from sojourns across the world.
A few years ago I earned the nickname “Celestial Wayfarer” among my peer group of Qigong practitioners. I had freshly read “Opening the Dragon’s Gate” where all the Daoist Masters of the Lineage had badass titles to go with their specialties. My fellow skilled healers and I then reflected on what we saw each other’s […]
Recently I’ve been wanting to write on things more practical and focused, and also been doing a lot of soul searching on the topic of Freedom and Purpose. Ikigai has been written on extensively, but if you’ve never heard of it this sums it up quite beautifully: This flower is a wonderful way of taking […]
I recently picked up a copy of Ted Andrew’s Animal Wise- the extended edition that has a lot more species of animals and lesser known archetypes. For those unfamiliar with Shamanic healing work, I talk about Animal medicine here: Core Shamanism This book includes mythical animals, such as the Dragon, Unicorn, and Phoenix-as powerful archetypes. […]
Yesterday at the Kadampa Center, Geshe Sangpo’s teaching was about Joyful Effort. He told the story of Asanga (http://www.three-vajras.com/asanga) who was in search of Maitreya Buddha, and went into a cave to meet with this Buddha. He would give up every 3 years, and out in the world something would inspire him to return to […]
I’ve had a whirlwind of adventures the past two weeks, from Terre Haute Indiana to the NationaL Qi Gong Association’s yearly conference in Asheville. I enjoyed countless insights, immigration, and sharing deeply with my qi gong family. I learned a lot about Chinese herbalism with budding master Ben Rosenthorn, and enjoyed the Sunrises of Lake […]
“It is not enough to open our minds to new dimensions… behind and beyond all that there must be someway of brining it all to Earth. Of Grounding it.”- Alan Watts The unique approach of Healcyon is that we focus not only on the endeavor of transformation of consciousness and all the mystical adventures that […]
To go along with our first New Moon Newletter, I want to write deeper on what I mean when I talk about the Spiral path of growth, non-linear growth, and the flux associated with the Moon cycles. As a heads up: I do not claim either approach is better than the other. They both […]
I return to Rio under the Full Moon, and it hasn’t quite hit me yet that my brother is gone. Our heroine Kelly returns. and I realize a new depth to her Daoist mastery: on her back is a crescent white moon within her gold fur, and within her white underbelly is a gold patch. […]
The largest city in the Western Hemisphere. That’s what drew my brother to check this place out, and I was happy to tag along and meet a cousin of mine that also appreciates motorcycles. We arrived at 6am and had one hell of a day. After meeting my cousin and having breakfast, we were told […]
We spent a few days in Salvador, the third largest city in Brasil. A wonderful beach town filled with Afro-brazilian cultures. My brother Stuart was drawn to this place because of his time spent training as capoeirista. Our journey from Rio was a 33 hour bus-ride, which took us through the rolling landscape of Brazilian […]