What are the Xi Cleft points? The Xi Cleft is a little accumulation place, a crevice, where energy can gather; it’s a little extra pocket in the meridian, where there is a gathering of qi. It’s useful to have a little gathering spot for qi, a little energy pocket, primarily in situations where ‘a little…
This is Part Four of a 4 part series. If you missed the beginning, you can start here. I have been sitting with the grief under the anger for a while, and what I’m finding feels a little scary to say out loud. Honestly, as I start to open the grief in Lung 1 and…
Now that I’ve had some time to be with this rage, and had some time to return to the heart, what I am finding inside myself relates directly to exit entry points. It is related specifically to how very strong emotions can actually blockade our heart, and make it hard to receive the Divine. Right…
This blog is Part Two of a longer discussion that begins here. Okay, I’ve been just soaking in the arms of the love and the Big Heart for a while, and now I feel ready to come back to working with my poor aching head. I did a little bit of that already, before starting…
As I understand it, a blog post is a collaborative compromise between what you might find useful to read about, and what I have in my heart to speak about. That being said, this morning I have such a bad headache. It’s a bad enough headache that I’m not actually typing this post right now…
This blog is a continuation of my notes on Healing and Non-Healing States, which I shared in my last blog. Would you like more experiential learning about the nature of healing? Join us for one of the upcoming in-person Whole Heart Connection Intro workshops. Healing takes place when the pain meets the Love, and the…
Ankles are amazing. They are in charge of both stability and mobility. They need movement, but not too much—we also need not to sprain them. Somewhere in that balance of stiffness and looseness is Liver 4, an acupuncture point right there on the flexure of the ankle. It’s the Metal point on the Liver meridian….
This blog is an excerpt from a longer presentation recently given to my Sufi community. If you are interested, you can check out the full teaching. It is not possible to hold someone else accountable in the clean and polite, healthy and holy way unless you are first able to hold yourself accountable with that…
Every season, we have the opportunity for a complete healing of that season’s Element in ourselves. In summer, we have the opportunity to heal our Fire Element. What would that look like—and how do we begin? One very helpful way to begin is with a Fire Seasonal Health Inventory. This allows us to assess: How…
This blog post is a continuation of Healing Internalized Oppression Part 1. It is also part of a much longer self-study CEU of the same name, worth 2.5 PDA points, presented as a discussion between myself and two colleagues, Dr. Rachelle Dixon and Shawn Richardson. If you are interested in purchasing the full conversation as…
