I teach Qigong, but movement is only one part of what I explore. What started there has grown into books, music, courses, workshops, retreats, meditations, conversations, and community. Each is a different way of exploring many of the same questions and bringing more awareness to ourselves, to one another, and to the lives we’re actually living.
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About Taja
My work brings together Qigong, writing, music, meditation, and an ongoing curiosity about how we meet our own lives.
The work
My work has never fit neatly into one box.
The approach
Curiosity is at the center.
I’m fascinated by the relationship between the body, energy, awareness, consciousness, nature, and the ways we participate in our own experience. I draw from Qigong, ancient philosophy, quantum physics, nature, various energy-healing modalities, and the work of people exploring consciousness and the nature of reality. I’m interested in what we already know, what we’re still discovering, and the questions we haven’t answered yet.
I’m not particularly interested in telling people what they’re supposed to believe. I’d rather offer something we can experience for ourselves and say, “Try it. See what happens.”
That approach shapes the way I teach and the way I live.
I believe practices like Qigong become most meaningful when they leave the classroom with us. When they help us find our center in the middle of an ordinary day. When they change the way we move, where we place our attention, how we respond to what happens around us, and how quickly we recognize when we’ve wandered away from ourselves.
I’m interested in what stays with us when the sink is leaking, the schedule is full, the plan falls apart, and nobody feels particularly enlightened.
That’s where the practice becomes real.
Background
A path taking shape
My path into this work has taken many forms. Over the years, I’ve studied and practiced Qigong, Tai Chi, Dao Yin, meditation, sound healing, and several energy-healing modalities, including becoming a Reiki Master Teacher. I’ve also worked in health coaching, including holistic cancer coaching, and spent many years in nursing before retiring from the field.
I’m an avid reader and endlessly curious researcher. I love being outside, walking with my dogs among granite outcroppings and pines beneath wide Arizona skies. I value time with friends, meaningful conversations, laughter, and continuing to explore holistic and alternative approaches to healing.
These interests and experiences have never arranged themselves into one neat profession. They have become different ways of exploring the same deeper questions.
How do we become more present in our own lives?
Where are we placing our energy?
How does greater awareness change the way we meet one another?
What happens when we stop moving through our days on autopilot and learn how to come back home to ourselves?
I don’t have all the answers. I don’t particularly trust anyone who claims they do.
I’m still learning, experimenting, creating.
I’m still deeply curious, and I hope I always will be.