Eric Grey

1. I keep trying to force myself to make Qigong my main practice because, well, I feel like it should be. I love it, love it, love it. I want to teach it! It's great! But for some reason, right now, my body wants yoga. It's crazy for yoga. It can't get enough yoga. So, yoga it is. My fiancee and I used to do yoga every single day together and it was really some of the best time we've had together. Not so much DURING the sessions, you understand, but how it impacted us in the rest of life. So, we're trying it again at the Bhaktishop in Portland, which is a way cool place. I've looked for yoga studios in Portland before, and while they all have their benefits, this is the one that is most like our beloved studio in Eugene, OR. There's chanting and singing and the cyclic soothing of vinyasa but also some long holding of poses. It's just a really good place and in our favorite neighborhood, where we hope to buy a house someday. So, we've gone every day for the last few days and that's the plan moving forward. Let's see how it goes.

2. Chinese language learning has taken a bit of a hit this week. We've got some big big business things going on that I don't want to talk about, yet, and that's taking all my energy. Seriously, it's all I can do to keep up with patients, yoga, my family, and this monster project I'm working on... actually two monster projects. Anyway - I have basically just been looking at my flashcards, and that sucks. It looks to be able to turn around by the weekend. Then I'll have more to say about learning Chinese.

3. I have been working with learning some Chinese medicine (gasp) as I said I would. Mostly, I've been reading this book "Applied Channel Theory in Chinese Medicine" by Wang Ju-Yi and Jason D. Robertson that's just been knocking my socks off. I don't have lots of good observations to tell you right now, and probably most of you don't care, but it's a fantastic book. It's really... just refreshing my whole mind and body. Good stuff.

Also - I've been gardening. Nothing like tending the Earth to bring you back to yourself.

This week my lesson has been that being still, and cultivating deep internal power are pretty much the same thing. Both are crucial to this whole project of mine.