I’m now over a week late with this blog post and so much has changed profoundly. The whole world is reeling with the ramifications of the COVID-19 outbreak a...

Well, it may only be February, but that white stuff will be gone soon enough, which means it’s almost spring, and our Level One Shaolin Kungfu class at Shaol...

Access Part One Here After a while down the line, your empty cup will have greatly served you. Perhaps you will have overcome some chronic health issue, perh...

As we head into a new decade, bright with promise, a blank sheet of paper yet unwritten, my mind turns back to this phrase again and again. Those in Shaolin ...

I hope everyone had a joyous, safe, and wonderful holiday season. Here we now find ourselves at the beginning of a shiny new year, in a shiny new decade to b...

My sifu, Grandmaster Wong, is highly quotable. If you’re signed up to receive these blog posts, then you’re receiving them in a neat little bulletin format w...

The title of this blog post represents a favorite phrase of Grandmaster Wong’s. In fact, this is a subject so dear to him that he has written a multi-part ar...

I was tempted to title this post after the old Beach Boys song, "Hang on to Your Ego" until I came across a post of a similar title in an online Buddhist jou...

By my count, this is my 53rd blog post, which means the Shaolin Wahnam Twin Cities blog is officially one year old! I started this blog simply as a means to ...

As I sit here writing this, I can’t help but think about the famous Johnny Carson character Carnac the Magnificent. I’d watch him hold envelops up to that si...

In modern culture, we are taught to value the intellect. In the workplace, multi-tasking is king. Particularly in the West, productivity is prized in all thi...

What I'm about to say might upset some people, but when we are working with energy to overcome an ailment, this is an extremely important point to make. Are ...

I love training Shaolin Kungfu for a myriad of reasons: the strength and poise it gives me, the way that has increased my confidence over the years, opened m...

Easily the hallmark of Shaolin Wahnam, and really the heart and soul of our qigong and kungfu, self-manifested Qi flow is the best skill we learn to break th...

“Can you believe it? I’m doing kungfu!” I smiled as one of my students said this last week when we were wrapping up class for the night. I had the same sent...

I’m excited to see that folks are already signing up for the workshops being offered this year! When it’s cold and blustery out my mind naturally starts to i...

While the mercury looks like it’s broken on a day like today, I promise that spring is just around the corner, and spring means classes start up again at Sha...

How many times have I heard those words come out of Grandmaster Wong’s mouth? I couldn’t even say. How many times have I uttered those same words to students...

Last week I talked about the facial massage and point massage that we perform at the end of our training session and how it is important in smoothing the tra...

Awhile ago I published a blog post about how we learn to stand up properly in our qigong practice and why we place so much emphasis on that in Shaolin Wahnam...