apprenticeship

The Lesson the Medicine Man Never Meant to Teach

https://youtu.be/v-YJfAbXKzc   Since the time of my earliest memories, I was drawn to Native Americans. As a child, I would sit for hours and look at books with photographs of Native people and their ritual practices. At the age of fourteen, when I began to learn about traditional Native doctors (medicine men and women), I decided that, if ever given [...]

By |2025-10-23T03:45:41-04:00October 21, 2025|0 Comments

Honoring the Sacred Contract

https://youtu.be/d6CPuYiXCc4   For seventeen years, I trained with Shifu Li Tai Liang in Xin Yi Quan, Baguazhang, Tai Chi, and Chi Gong—internal martial arts rooted in Taoist lineages that go back thousands of years. I first began attending Shifu's classes in the Corona section of Queens. But I quickly realized that the depth and complexity of what he was teaching [...]

By |2025-07-29T11:05:49-04:00July 27, 2025|0 Comments
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