My raison d’être has always been, and still is, helping people to fight depression. It was my own battle with depression, my subsequent brush with death, and my eventual success with qigong that motivated me to start teaching this art back in 2005. When I quit my my cushy IT job in New York City […]
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[Podcast] Overcoming Depression and Cultivating Healing Energy
A few months ago I did an interview with my friend Aditya, who runs a super-popular wellness podcast on iTunes. But of course I’m a dummy and I forgot to share the link with you. Oops! Let’s change that right now! Listen now: Apple Podcasts Spotify Stitcher RSS feed Or watch the video here: Here are […]
[Video] 5 Tips for Transforming Yourself in 2019
On this day 19 years ago I made a life-changing decision. I was fed up with my life. I was a total mess, and I was desperate to heal. But I also felt like a miserable failure. How do you transform yourself when you also feel like a failure? In this video blog, I’ll talk about how […]
Fix Your Posture, Fix Your Qi, Fix Your Biochemistry
Charlie Brown was definitely a qigong master. He knew about the connection between posture, biochemistry, and energy. His wisdom is forever immortalized in this old Peanuts cartoon: There’s so much wisdom in this cartoon, but when I first saw it, I was a little offended. “It’s a serious illness,” I thought to myself. “Depression isn’t […]
Here’s a Method That Is Helping Depressives Get through the Winter
I was 26 when I experienced my first episode of major depression. Back then, I didn’t realize I was depressive. All I knew was that there was an invisible force sucking me into a vortex of despair…