September is the perfect time to make room for a practice to uplift your spirit and support your health. Below are two testimonials for The Five Routines: Qigong Exercise for Powerful Results.  The first is from someone who has incorporated […]

The Five Routines: Qigong Exercise for Powerful Results is finally available! In this teaching and learning video, I demonstrate and narrate the exercises that inspired me to study Chinese Medicine. My experience changed my lifestyle and ultimately the course of […]

We are wrapping up production of the video of me teaching Soaring Crane Qigong: The Five Routines. I have always wanted to share the original form of this healing martial art that inspired so much change in my life. When […]

“A form of exercise that can help to prevent and even support in treating disease,” read the description of the qigong class. I had never heard of this movement art before, which is similar to tai chi. “Really?” I asked […]

I hope you have time during our collective experience of “social distancing” to try this 18-minute qigong exercise warm up. It was not filmed on the south coast of Barbados as pictured in this photo but rather in my living […]

Late summer often marks the time when we prepare to get back into a more structured routine undotted by swims in the sea, vacations and visits, growing gardens and gathering their fruits. We had a big event this summer when […]

SPIRITUAL GANGSTER: those were the two words spelled out in white on letters on the black hoodie worn by our yoga teacher as she walked into the room. I did not know that this was the name of a new […]

Four days per week, twenty high school students from the James Baldwin School on 18th Street walk to Integral Yoga on 13th Street to get credit in Health/Physical Education. They receive what every high schooler needs more than anything: the […]

It is ironic that joy is rarely grasped in the things the world tells us we must pursue in order to be happy: making lots of money, having power over others, having a showcase of a house or a family […]

Imagine 2 simple exercises that could unleash the potential of this brand-new year by helping you tap into a profound sense of well-being. Here they are: STILLNESS: Wise folk have suggested that if we don’t have time for half an […]

I am back in the park, exercising. I have added small weights to my qigong workout because weight-bearing enhances the health of bones. During a hike three weeks ago, I witnessed my father, who is four months shy of 90, […]

“Come on, pretty boy, show me what you got!” So chides the brawny trainer in Hudson River Park. His client sheepishly smiles as he passes me, while I am focused on my own exercises. He probably knows he is sweating […]