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Today marks the first day of my 68th year living on the planet...I was blessed with phone calls and text messages from family and...

First published at KungFuMagazine.com on December 14, 2017 (Photo by Jonathan Chang) There is a long history of Asian mountain asceticism...

I'm still here... and preparing to leave "the mountain" once again. For all intents and purposes, this first semester is done. The day...

Though it was delayed by several weeks, the cold and rainy season has started, again. I am glad for the delay. Training in the cold when...

Many years ago in a class during my freshman year as a naturopathic medical student, one of my favorite teachers, Dr. Sherman, shared an...

I've been back 'on the mountain' exactly one week today, but only training since Monday (5 days). It feels like a month already! With my...

It's been exactly twenty-one days since I returned home, returned to 'the valley.' The transition from being away on the mountain for the...

Yesterday, for all intents and purposes, was the final day of formal training for this semester and concludes my first year of the 3-Year...

It's June 2nd. My paternal aunt ("Granny") who, together with her mother (Yeya, my grandmother), and her daughter, (Mina, my first...

In ancient times, whether in Africa, China, the Americas, Europe or elsewhere in the world, there was a warrior class of men and women...