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”
Category Archives: martial arts
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”
People Expect Women to Work for Free
Caring for children, volunteering at the school, setting up the office birthday party. I’m just sayin.
Training Journal 9.14.2022
Tonight I trained at Alberta park, the normal place I practice martial arts on Wednesday evenings. My normal training mates weren’t there, so it was just me practicing my stuff, whatever that is. I did my Physical Therapy exercises at the park tonight, then I marched around to songs I played in my earbuds. SometimesContinue reading “Training Journal 9.14.2022”
Michelle Folk Johnson 