The Deep Well

The Deep Well

by | Oct 16, 2026 | Stillness

Part III: The Burden and Grace of the Family Name When a practitioner is granted a practice name or formally received into a lineage, the mind instinctively reaches for metaphors of arrival. We are wired to treat formal recognition as a summit reached, a door locked...
Clear Glass: Moving From Form to Principle

Clear Glass: Moving From Form to Principle

by | Oct 2, 2026 | Stillness

Part II: Becoming The Practice and Live What You Have Learned In the early stages of cultivation, we rely heavily on scaffolding. We learn where to place our feet in a Taiji stance, trace the subtle pathways of the meridians in TCM, memorize classical passages of the...
The Open Palm: Devotion Without Rigidity

The Open Palm: Devotion Without Rigidity

by | Sep 18, 2026 | Stillness

Blue Heron Stillness offers formal courses in Taiji, Qigong, Meditation, Daoist Arts, TCM Basics, and Bagua. Some of my longest-tenured students have completed each of those subjects, including an I Ching Divination, and moved beyond “student” to become...
The Courage to Be Permeable

The Courage to Be Permeable

by | Sep 4, 2026 | Stillness

We had been sitting in comfortable silence for about thirty minutes. At not even five feet tall, she was a peanut of a woman, resting quietly in her wheelchair while I towered beside her. Together, we watched with great amusement as squirrels chased each other up and...
Further Ramblings on The Mundane

Further Ramblings on The Mundane

by | Aug 19, 2026 | Stillness

We are conditioned to wait for the thunderclaps. The big promotions, the public recognitions, the moments where society finally turns its gaze toward us and nods in approval. Yesterday, I sat with a student of mine—a highly accomplished professional who has...