I recently posted about playing saxophone again with Middle School Jazz Band. At that time, I was playing alto sax with the band. I like playing alto just fine, but a few weeks into playing with the band, the teacher asked if I would show one of the clarinet player students how to play tenorContinue reading “Hello, My Love”
Author Archives: Michelle J
Hiding vs. Being Seen
Recently I led a qigong workshop in my neighborhood. Setting up the workshop proved to be much harder than I expected, especially having to promote my teaching. I had to get my website looking good! Set up my Instagram links! Make little Instagram reels to promote my class! Jump back onto Facebook to invite people!Continue reading “Hiding vs. Being Seen”
Welcome to Monday
This week I’m beginning to promote my first qigong class offering in Portland, Energetic Grounding, a Shanti System class I’ll be teaching at a great neighborhood movement studio called Ready Set Grow. I’m writing this post to share my process in doing that. (My big, scary inner-critic is trying to make the process more difficultContinue reading “Welcome to Monday”
Setting Up to Teach
I’m planning to teach Qigong workshops and classes this spring. I don’t have my own studio space in which to teach, so I will be looking for studio spaces that I can rent or use part-time. I had a plan to teach a two-hour workshop at a yoga studio near my home at the endContinue reading “Setting Up to Teach”
The Stuckness
I recently started working with a new counselor. At our first session last week, I unloaded everything that’s been going on: My dad died in 2020. My mom had a major stroke in 2021. My husband and I have been working through relationship challenges. Motherhood has become really stressful. I haven’t been able to getContinue reading “The Stuckness”
