Touch of Tao

07/31/2025

Well this is interesting. Music that matches your natural internal rhythms as a natural way to reduce pain. Nice!

Dr. Mathieu Roy and Dr. Caroline Palmer of McGill University found that music with a tempo matching a person’s internal rhythm—or spontaneous production rate—helps relieve pain, though the exact biological mechanism still needs to be studied.

07/23/2025

Wellness Wednesday Classes Tonight
5:15 - QiGong, with Gretchen
6:15 - Tibetan Yoga & Chakra Toning, with Cynthia
7:00 - Tai Chi, with Seraphim

$12/drop-in or $25 for all 3

07/22/2025

I was remembering an ordinary day that I walked into a cafe, and when I looked around at the people I was stunned by how beautiful everyone was. I had never seen it to this degree before, every single person, just perfectly beautiful! I had to stop and observe, feel it.

Then I opened my book to this paragraph. 🩵🪷🩵 ~ highlight is from The Fourth Book of Light

07/19/2025

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07/17/2025

A rainbow shows us the magnificent colors held within sunlight. 🌈☀️ What is it that releases the beautiful details of your Aura?

Is a rainbow ever gone? Or is it always there in form, just waiting to be made visible by the correct circumstances?

07/15/2025

Have you read this book? I bought this back in the 1900s, and every now and then get drawn to re-read it. NOSTALGIA - look what I found!

Who remembers Light In Motion, Jac & Becca Morgan??! ☀️ My bookmark, how appropriate! ☀️ When we first opened it was us, , and Inner Dance Yoga Studio with Lynne. We were "Soul Of Spenard" and we were all so cool!

2 things stand out to me right now, from the book:
💜 the Kriya Yoga mediations and breathing. Wow, doing these again feels so internally silent and vast.

💜 A reminder that the cultivation practices we do: Meditation, QiGong, Tai Chi, Yoga - these are what prepare our physical bodies for the literal ✨️charge✨️ of higher consciousness, increased brain capacity as an antenna/receiver/transmitter.

This is my current break-time bliss. Would love to hear your biggest realizations and take-aways if you've read it.

07/14/2025

What does your nervous system feel like right now? Do you know how to tell? Look at 3 easy things:
- How is your muscle tension, relaxed or tense?
- How are you breathing, full & deep or shallow & faster?
- Are your emotions calm & happy or ready to engage drama?

Our nervous system is also the Electric part of our electromagnetic field, our Yang energy, and a part of us that charges our internal water and bones. Sounds important, right?

Simple ways to calm & nourish your nervous system:
Meditation, QiGong, Yoga, Tai Chi
Energy Healing session
Get a massage
Vacation at the beach
Walk in the forest, nature
Big long hug
Unabashed laughter

How often do you think about your own nervous system, and then consciously do something about it?

07/11/2025

Presence. Authentic. No mask, no performance - acting - pretending. Just you shining your light into the world and making it even brighter.

The Wood Element is often associated with Anger, and when we look at the very root of this emotion the Anger is a reaction to anything that attempts to block us from Being Who We Are.

Sometimes when we're angry at someone else, it's often because we haven't yet refined our own self-awareness to know that we have allowed ourself to be vulnerable in a compromising way. To even ponder this is a high level of awareness.

High levels of self-awareness are cultivated over time with meditation, qigong, and dreamwork. Dreams are where we process the baggage that we carry, and all baggage covers up Who We Are.

And that's OK. Part of being human is exploring all of this, maybe over many lifetimes. We are born on the other side of the veil of forgetting for a reason.

So let's have fun losing our baggage, exploring ourself, and unleashing our magnificent light into this world! Healers all over the planet know it's time NOW to drop as much BS as we can because it weighs us down, and where we need to go to transcend the crazy requires authenticity. BE. YOU.

Medical QiGong Energy Healing - Wood Element
9-Week Course, starts Sunday 7/13/25
details & register online at https://akinstitute.com/product/medical-qigong-energy-healing-wood-element/

07/11/2025

Interesting Experiment To Try:
For 1 day, talk about things that actually happen as if you dreamed them. For example,
"I dreamed I had strawberries and coffee for breakfast this morning."
"I dreamed someone in traffic was so mad when I accidentally cut them off."
"I dreamed I was at work and my co-worker was so upset over some drama that happened."

You can also talk about difficult emotional situations like this:
"I dreamed I was diagnosed with (###) and was having such a difficult time experiencing it."
"I dreamed I was in a fight with my (###) and we were screaming at each other."

You get the idea.

Try it for 1 day and see what happens. This is so cool! I'd love to know your experience and insights if you want to come back and comment later.

And if you want to go deeper into dreams, next Medical QiGong Energy Healing class, Wood Element, starts this Sunday 7/13/25, 11am-1pm. We'll be inducing dreams with energy healing treatments - oooOOOOooooo
Register online at: https://akinstitute.com/product/medical-qigong-energy-healing-wood-element/

07/09/2025

Isn't this the most beautiful Gua Sha oil? It looks like ☀️a sunrise☀️. Made by our own local Alizka 🩵🩵

07/08/2025

From a Taoist perspective, Dream, the reality we experience during sleep, is associated with some interesting concepts.

The top part of the character depicts a forest or grove, which is a mysterious realm in which the subconscious can explore pathways of hidden meanings.

Trees have a direct relationship to the Wood Element, and one of the biggest lessons they teach us is to Be Who You Are.

The bottom part of the character means evening or dusk. This is the time between Yin and Yang, the transition between light and dark. This in-between space speaks to change and transformation.

Evening and dusk belong to the Metal Element, which is about refinement and wisdom.

The ancient Taoists considered dreams to hold profound significance as a bridge to explore the nature of reality. Think of the famous “Butterly Dream” story:

Is the man dreaming of being a butterfly, or is the butterfly dreaming of being a man? Who is dreaming who? Or are they both dreaming each other?

So we end up with this mystical liminal realm where reality shifts into something else, and who we are is malleable. There are profound meanings that can be garnered, visitations and teachings that come through, and the Butterfly or Man is left unsolved.

In the next Medical QiGong Energy Healing class, Wood Element, we’ll be working with dreams and how to energetically induce them as a way to process layers of subconscious information that allows us to become more of Who We Are.

These special treatments can be done on yourself, or as a clinical treatments you do to someone else. They are profoundly changing.

9-Week class starts Sunday 7-13-25, 11am-1pm. Register online at: https://akinstitute.com/product/medical-qigong-energy-healing-wood-element/