Showing posts with label meditation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label meditation. Show all posts

7.01.2023

🌞Mindfulness reflections & resources ⎸ July newsletter

 

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I stop. Canyons of light and shadow dance across the rectangular patterning of the oak bark. I trace the canyons, red and black ants crawling over my fingers. Turkeys laugh. Deer trot by. The full moon sets, sun rises, and I track time with breath. Now, walking. Lift, move, place. Heel to toe, toe to heel, edges, center. Now, sitting. Just this. Gentle gaze. I see everything and nothing all at once. Soft belly. Spine elongated yet natural. Light and shadow. Ancestors everywhere. “What allures you?” Just this. 


Three days ago, I did nothing but eat, meditate, and sleep for a week of silent nature meditation at Spirit Rock. I type this now from an airport window, watching the pink sunset kiss Phoenix, AZ mountains, bleary-eyed on a red-eye layover en route to one of the largest herbal conferences in the world, the International Herbal Symposium (IHS). Walking, driving, and flying from my first multi-day silent Buddhist meditation retreat to my first time teaching at the IHS, I feel grateful (what an honor to teach alongside so many of my heroes). I toe the edge of overwhelm (from silent sacred everynothingness, to flying through the air in a big metal box, to celebrating with hundreds of excited herbalists-- this is a lot). I’m here


Slowly walking from one side of the terminal to the other at the Phoenix International Airport, I soften and expand my gaze, see everything and nothing, and track my breath, feet, and body. Just this moment. Body, breath, sounds. Seeing, hearing, sensing. Just this. 


Movement within stillness. Stillness within movement. Still waters flowing. 


What mindfulness practices ground you in everyday life? 


What small rituals anchor your attention in this present moment, in what truly matters? 


Sassafras & Rosa multiflora near Boston, MA

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🌻RETREATS🌻

Come join us for...


Nourishing Life at the Omega Institute in upstate NY, a Five Elements immersion in a gorgeous location. All participants get a copy of my Embodying Elements workbook. Sept. 11 - 15, 2023


OMEGA


Elemental Creativity at Green Gulch Farm, just north of San Francisco-- with Zen Monk Fu Schroeder and Art Monk Abbess Suiko McCall! Art, movement, and meditation with three stellar teachers. Nov. 29 - Dec. 3, 2023


GREEN GULCH


🌻MORE RESOURCES🌻

Find mindfulness resources at jilinglin.com/links#meditate


Ventura mindfulness organizations:


Take a retreat! Here’s some retreat center ideas and my upcoming retreats


Herbs to support travel-- here’s two articles I love, from


New Podcast Episode: Herbal Action Project, with Shaman Jesus

 

PS: The International Herbal Symposium was a blast. I reconnected with old friends, made new friends, taught about things I love, learned more about other things I love like clinical skills for better midwifing people-plant-place relationships-- and am inspired to integrate these skills into my local Ventura clinic & teaching home-scape.


❤️ Enjoy the rest of your summer,


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2.01.2022

🌻Lunar New Year! │ Mindfulness, Productivity & Covid resources

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Happy Lunar New Year of the Water Tiger!


Lunar New Year is the second New Moon after Winter Solstice, and the biggest festival in my Taiwanese-Chinese culture. Families and friends prepare and gather for weeks, and flock to temples to burn incense and offer food, prayers, and love to our ancestors. Here in the USA, I typically spend Lunar New Year on a mountaintop, offering my own prayers and love up, down, and all around.


🌿 How are you honoring the second new moon of 2022?

🌿 What cultural traditions do you observe at the start of the year?

🌿 How have your cultural traditions shifted & blossomed over time?


CLINIC NEWS

UPDATED CANCELLATION POLICY | For patients, please note our updated 48-hour cancellation policy. Your cancelling/ rescheduling in a timely manner helps me better support the health & scheduling needs of more people. February is filling up fast! Book here.


EVENTS

WILDYOGA YTT-200 | We begin our year-long journey through the Five Elements of Yoga in a few days, with Balanced Rock's 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training. Join us online. Get $200 off with code: jilingwildyoga


ESALEN RETREAT │ Registration just opened for Nature, Art, Movement & Ritual: Embodying the Five Elements of Chinese Medicine. Come join us at Esalen 4/11 - 4/15 for a transformative & restorative retreat!


PODCASTS │ Enjoy my "Tea Talks" interview with Kitchen Curandera Felicia Cocotzin Ruiz on the Herbal Radio podcast!


RESOURCES

COVID | As Covid continues ravaging our world, hold yourself and our communities with care.


MEDITATE | Here's free meditations to cultivate inner peace, especially needed in our current wild times. Visit my Links page for more!

  • Tara Brach offers Radical Compassion, her RAIN model, podcast, poetry, funny stories, and so many free meditations.
  • Rick Hanson also has free meditations, podcast, and in-depth trainings.
  • Enjoy local meditations with Klaudia Paletta in both English and Spanish.


LIFE DESIGN | Here's two informative productivity & life design blogs I love:


Keep paddling, water tiger. 😻 May the tides carry you with gentle strength. Book your acupuncture appointment here to nourish resilience for the year ahead, or come join my Thursday evening yoga classes at Boulderdash climbing gym.


With love,


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5.26.2021

Full Moon Gratitude Meditation

Happy Full Moon!

Light a candle, get comfortable, and enjoy this Full Moon Gratitude Meditation: 

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Have a great month!

5.11.2021

New Moon Intentions Meditation


Happy New Moon!

Light a candle, get comfortable, and enjoy this New Moon Intentions Meditation: 

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Have a great month!

3.02.2021

Jiling's March news

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Happy Spring Equinox!


Elderflowers are budding, baby Sycamore leaves are popping out of their winter coats, our tomato plants inch taller everyday, and bees and hummingbirds swarm incandescent aromatic blue Rosemary flowers.


What plants are growing around you right now?


Spring is associated with the element of Wood, in Chinese medicine. Wood governs the Liver and Gallbladder meridians, anger, compassion, dreams, vision, wind, goals, decisions, and aligned forward momentum.


What does spring feel like in your body?


Eat fresh wild spring greens, such as baby dandelion, plantain, dock, chickweed, chives, mallow, and garlic mustard.


Move your body. Release stagnant qi/ energy from sheltering in place. Enjoy a nourishing regular movement practice, such as simple walking, and/or breath- integrated practices like yoga, qigong, and dance.


What are your greatest visions?


Nourish life, or 養生 (yang shen), through healthy rest, movement, connection, nutrition, and creative expression. And of course, come in for acupuncture + herbs! 😍


How are you actively moving your dreams into reality, every single day?


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Contents

Enjoy these FREE offerings to inspire your spring:

🍃 Embodying Elements: Spring Equinox

🍃 Interplay info session

🍃 Insight Timer meditations

🍃 Community Resources



🌸Embodying Elements: Spring Equinox🌸

Move your dreams into reality with the Wood element of Chinese Medicine. Align your visions and actions through improvisational movement, sound, and storytelling. Join us for this FREE Spring Equinox Interplay journey, on Saturday, March 20 at 1 PM PST! Register here:


EMBODY SPRING



🍃 InterPlay Programs

Embody somatic skills + learn creative tools for optimized joyful living! Join our free session on March 6 at 4 PM PST to learn more about us. Email me to sign up!


INTERPLAY



🍃 Insight Timer meditations

Enjoy these free meditations, and join me for upcoming weekly donation- based yoga/ meditation classes through Insight Timer!


MEDITATE



🍃 Community Resources


Lokha samastha sukhino bhavantu

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May all beings be happy.


Happy spring!

Jiling


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