Dear Qigong Students,I love doing Qigong at the beach. My favorite Qigong warmup these days is a beautiful Shibashi practice made of 18 Taichi Qigong movements. The traditional form is repeating the movements 6 times. I have condensed this practice to 4 repetitions creating a 10 minutes flowing warm up. I hope you will enjoy the healing benefits by following along.Wishing you a Happy Chiful SpringChi blessings with gratitudeDove
Happy Chinese New Year, 2024 is the Year of the Wood Dragon. The wood element signifies stability, honesty, loyalty, creativity and growth, while the dragon symbolises power, good fortune, harvest and prosperity. Born the year of the Water Dragon, I am forever inspired to create dragons, they are my Spirit Guide. Here are several Dragons I have created over the years. Hope you enjoy them. Chi blessings with Gratitude Dove
I am honored to be part of this exciting art exhibition Activation. Opening Night Reception beginning October 12 from 5-8pm at Falkirk in San Rafael. Come and touch, interact and activate ceramic art. Come meet the artists and myself. Show is up through November 17. Come and enjoyChi blessings with gratitudeDove Turn Me—Mad, Sad and Glad Ecstasy, Turn Me On – Please Spin Me Around Dancing 5 Elements- Please Tap My Foot and Watch Me Dance
Dear Friends, Family and Students, The first signs of spring are appearing. I enjoy working in my garden, picking leaves and lovingly press them into clay creating something new. I am excited to share my Spring ceramic creations on Etsy, Dragonartsstudio.Etsy.com. I hope you enjoy seeing natures imprint on ceramics. Please feel free to share this information, to help get the word out. Local customers not requiring shipping, can email me directly for a reduced price. Dove@dragonartsstudio.com. I am happy to announce I will participate in a selected group art show “Articulations“ at Falkirk starting March 10. My Qigong classes are going very well. I am inspired as I continue to study and enrich my own practice. Most classes are hybrid, in person and on zoom. Please check the Schedule Page for class details. As weather improves and Spring approaches, I wish everyone a Happy Healthy Spring Chi Blessings with Gratitude, Dove
Dear Students and Friends, past, present and future, I wish you and your loved ones a very Happy, Healthy and Chiful New Year.I look forward to a year of balanced well being, filled with love, joy and good health as we harmonize body mind and spirit.I am happy to be offering Winter Qigong classes at the College of Marin, at Aldergate Church, and the Civic Center duckpond weather permitting.Please Check out dragonartsstudio.com schedule for classes and registration. Balancing Yin and Yang, and harmonizing our Chakras and cultivating our life energy, Chi, Will help lead us gracefully into this new year with enriched fulfillment. Chi blessings with gratitude P.S. When I am not teaching I am expressing myself through ceramics. I am excited to share some of my creations on Etsy. If you are interested please check out DragonArtsStudio.Etsy.com https://www.etsy.com/shop/dragonartsstudio/?etsrc=sdt
Dear Friends, Family and Students, I feel so honored, appreciated, loved and supported by so many people who came in person and on Zoom to my Healing Cancer through the Arts Journey. I now feel complete, ready to move forward into good health and longevity. For those who were interested and unable to attend, I have included the recorded zoom event. Far from a Hollywood production, but a glimpse of this event which marks the end of my active cancer treatments. Wishing good health and Blessings to all With gratitude, Dove If you don’t see the video above. Here is the link to the video https://youtu.be/b7_sXayJnp4
Come join me for a six month healing series of learning the 64 movements of the Wild Goose Qigong, an ancient Chinese practice, 1700 years old revitalizing the entire body mind and spirit. In this program we will open all channels of energy in the body, balancing, restoring, strengthening, rejuvenating and healing. We will learn a relaxing and invigorating warm up, stimulate acupressure points, and learn new movements weekly. The class will be taught every Friday at 11:00-12:15am pacific time on Zoom. Each class will be recorded. Tuesday afternoons from 3:45-5pm, the new movements will be taught at the Civic Center Duck pond, standing masked 8 feet apart, weather permitting. The cost is $10 per class. Classes begin in February through August. If interested please go to Schedule Page for Zoom info and link. Feel free to share this information. Wishing you a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year, Gung Hey Fat Choy. Chi blessings with gratitude Dove
Day 12 of the Healing Journey Feeling gratitude as I fearlessly learn to surf the 1st waves of chemo Woke at 7, took morning meds with quart cooling lemon cranberry tea, and Massaged my belly. Breathing Meditation rising from earth thru my roots Connecting to heavenly golden light, slowly descending pouring into my crown, illuminating all my cells , penetrating healing, targeting and dispersing diseases as it dissolves and leaves my body and enters Mother Earth. Looking past this first round of chemo, First days I felt unstable, seasick, holding onto my apricot tree for support as I tried pulling weeds from my garden. 3 days of juicing. 3 days of releasing. 3 days on fire. This morning, with burnt lips, feeling weathered and accomplished I survived the first turbulent waves of chemo. I feel triumphant as I glide back on smooth waters and swim with delight in my warm pool and meditate in my garden protected by my five element dragon fountains. A new day awaits me and I am ready to create something new. So grateful I was able to teach qigong most days. I have received so much love, support many gifts, and prayers from family, close friends, students and medical staff and acupuncture Thank you! Love, Dove
Dear Loved Ones Learning to ride the Chemo waves with love, support, nourishment, patience, meditation, Qigong, swimming and Chi walking. With excellent medical support, acupuncture, dear family, friends, students…. Thank you for all your love, support, encouragement, prayers and healing light. Your positive energy will help me through this long Healing Journey. Chi blessings with gratitude and love Dove Finding Nourishment
Dear Qigong Students As many of you might know, I have been diagnosed with aggressive breast cancer and started chemo yesterday. I am in good spirits, I have a good support and medical team to help me through this healing journey.Teaching qigong is like medicine for me, I teach you what I need myself to heal. I plan to continue teaching Zoom Qigong through the end of July, take August off and begin again in September. I believe doing some qigong daily or weekly is very beneficial. I have recorded most of my classes onto my website so you can continue qigong practice when I am not teaching. I have many YouTube qigong videos to follow. Just go to the Pre-Recorded Qigong Classes page for recordings, and then scroll to the video for the class you want. Please note, during regular Zoom Qigong class times , go to Schedule page and click on class link. If by chance I do not open the Zoom class, it is because I am resting from chemo treatments. Below the zoom link you will find the prerecorded lesson, so you don’t need to miss any lesson. Please pay at the end of the month depending on how many live classes I teach that month that you attended. I look forward to seeing you soon on Zoom Qigong. I appreciate all the warm wishes, prayers and healing energy that I am receiving. Wishing everyone a Happy Healthy Summer. Chi blessings with gratitude Dove