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Nature Medicine from Arizona

A Qigong practice
in the wild forest

to share with you today
Qigong in the wild desert forest today
Cave Creek, Arizona
Morning Medicine
*cut short by the limit of my phone!
To all of my long time Qigong students, and to my new students, patients and friends, today begins a new journey for Qigong practice. Your practice will always change. The practice of doing, being, sharing, imagining it stretches every fiber visible and invisible of who you are. Be patient, it will always change.

Since New Years Day 2005 I have had a daily practice of Yoga. Since 2012 I have had a daily practice of Qigong, whether that be teaching 8 or 10 classes a week, or in zoomland thanks to the pandemic. That changed for me April 2021 when I was offered my job back at Mesa Verde. I got injured early on in the season during a Medical emergency where a very large fella took 8 of us, with some really strong fire fighters to litter him out on a singled wheeled litter carry. I did what most medicine people do, put the patient first, and I ended up with a knee injury. A probable tear in the medial meniscus from walking sideways over a rocky terrain, but its something that will come back in years to come, right now, its stable and good but tight and a reminder its not 100% anymore.  So I stopped my practice and I hiked 3-5 miles a day giving the tours at Mesa Verde into the dwellings. It is always a challenge when you live in a shoebox, or under stairs, or in a tent to do a practice. However nature always give you enough space. Today, it was time to be with the trees and practice again.

I know many of you have been waiting for me to offer my classes here in Bisbee again, having taught yoga and qigiong all these years in my return. But this time, humbly I realized there is enough here in town, more is not needed. So I put my energy into the acupuncture clinic and I continued my long hikes collecting tree data.

Know that sometimes we just want a break, sometimes there isn't a space, sometimes it just feels like "no" all of them are good reasons. And equally just 10 minutes is enough to say yes.

I wasn't prepared for my impomptu practice with you, and my 6s iphone has about 1GB of space, so I got a little over half of the morning medicine practice :-)  My apologies. I will bring my setup next time!

It is coming time for Spring, new buds are out at Cave Creek, Mexican Jays are everywhere, hummingbirds have nests, butterflies are already out. It is nice to be in the desert, all of you folks up north, enjoy the snow, it is coming soon.

I am still in Bisbee, Az. Maine is not happening, but I now have 4 states I am licensed in!  So if you want acupuncture, let us schedule you in. And if you want tinctures I can mail to all of you not here. I have added two new ones this week at the Farmers Market, Red Panax Ginseng, a root obtained from Korean plant via a great herbalist in Fort Collins. And a Double Bath Mushroom tincture with Chestnut and Pioppino mushrooms from the mushroom guy at the Bisbee Farmers Market, organic and fresh.

I look forward to seeing you all again on one path or another! Until then, enjoy the video!
Love, Candace
YouTube Channel - Qigong and Yoga and Nature with Candace
Hiking on the Silver Peak Trail, about 2 miles in of the 4.5, I came across a family of peccaries. So nice to see these woolly havelina, what a real pig should look like. I stopped on the trail and made a few clicks and whistles so they knew I was there and they started to make a line and head up the trail. A few were still in the bush around me. So I thought I would keep a distance and keep going up the trail. There were a couple of young ones in the pack and as I came around a rock crop, a peccary heard me and scuffled and charged through the tree. I never saw her/him, but I said ok, ok today you have the trail. As I turned around and went back down 50' there was the scraggler, the one under the tree was waiting for. I think it was a juvenile as she had a curious pause and as we looked at each other, I pointed as if sign language would do better than speaking words and I said i will go up that way and you can go that way. It worked out, as if we made that decision together!
It was a really amazing adventure today with them.  Look in the photo, central is one of the peccary eating a prickly pear, they are pretty tasty, i found a chewed up section and tasted. its green and watery.
Two years ago when I was in Bisbee, Az as covid locked things down, I had an artist residency.  Then I researched the Chinese History in Bisbee during the Mining Era. At Object Ltd. I hung the art installation for 6 weeks. Recently I have begun to play with sand pigments created from rocks at Cave Creek. On the left is an Acrylic paint mixed with pigments for a desert landscape, and on the right is the pigment sand art on brown fiber paper.  The cool thing is that on Redbubble, my art product site, my art can be turned into mugs and dresses and shower curtains, and more! See if you like some of them there.
https://www.redbubble.com/people/blackcoyote-art/shop?asc=u
 

Acupuncture has proof!

Thanks to one of my patients here in Bisbee, it was after her treatment that she showed me the results of her 75 min treatment.  For a long time western medicine has discounted ancient Chinese Medicine as it didn't have replicated science testing. Beyond thousands of cases being presented acupuncture and all of its modalities in TCM are still not accepted in that medicine world.  This App attached to a ring on my patient's finger actually clearly proves how the treatment affected her physiology. In a 75 min treatment she was noted as sleeping for 40 minutes of it. Whether it be sleeping or monitored in a pulse wave of deep rest, the white segments are me putting in needles, cupping and flipping from back to front and the blue is sleep. Thanks D... I look forward to more science. I am aspiring, having already written to the company Oura, to join with me as a scientist and supporter to use these devices, perhaps one with an adjustable band that I can use for all of my patients. Very Exciting!
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9am - 1pm
At the Park across from the Warren Ballpark
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