Appetite for Sleep

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Appetite for Sleep

There are so many good moments in this Joe Rogen Interview with Matthew Walker about Sleep, listen to the whole thing. It is long, I listened to it over three days while I was preparing dinner. He uses the language construction of my Daoist teacher Liu Ming at one point, 'sleep is an appetite.' Liu Ming talked a lot about appetites, the four primary appetites are: sleep, rest, exercise, and food. Then there are things like sex, adventure, killing, and intellect.

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Details of the Pure Internal Neigong Workshop this Friday

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Details of the Pure Internal Neigong Workshop this Friday

I am teaching a new workshop this Friday 5-7 PM in Berkeley, California at Soja Martial Arts.

How I developed this new material

In that last few years I figured out how the Daoist meditation practice called the Golden Elixir (jindan) is connected to Internal Martial Arts. The golden elixir practice develops something called the Immortal Egg. This egg is a real thing. It is a re-ordering of perception-action. In simple terms, it is a different (some would say primal) way of initiating movement. The result of working with this idea/practice has profoundly changed my martial arts. 

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Three Workshops in Berkeley March 23 and 25th

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Three Workshops in Berkeley March 23 and 25th

I am teaching three workshops in Berkeley, California. They are both at Soja Martial Arts (click the workshops button)

The first on Friday night is all the Neigong stuff I've invented in the last two years.

The second is a kids workshop--followed by a workshop for adults about teaching kids. The idea is that you can come watch me teach and then we will workshop the workshop! (see below)

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