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Awareness begins with embodied attunement

Sally Chang at Brooklyn Zen Center

February 24, 2024

In-Person Workshop

Join us at Brooklyn Zen Center, for a special offering from visiting Qigong teacher and long-term friend of BZC Sally Chang. Qigong is an embodied art that manifests both Daoist and Zen principles in moving meditation.

Taiji Qigong Shibashi is a Qigong series based on Taiji Principles created by Lin Hou Sheng. No previous training is required and beginners are welcome!

Sally will teach part two of the form, a gentle, fun, and energizing set of 18 movements (each part can be learned independently). We approach Qigong as meditation in motion, that develops calm confidence, strength, and agility in our body, mind, and spirit.

Physical expectations will include standing, moving up and down, shifting weight from one leg to the other, sitting, and raising arms above the head. Please let us know if you have any accessibility concerns or questions before registering. All participants can sit down or lie down at any time according to their needs and health conditions.

BZC Members are invited to register by dana (offering what you can). Non-members are invited to register at the listed rates. Registration closes February 22. 

$150-200

Boundless Mind Temple

326 Clinton Street
Brooklyn, NY 11231

info@brooklynzen.org

YEAR OF THE WOOD DRAGON ASTROLOGY TALK

FEB 12, Online 4:30 - 6 pm PST (Recording available at the button below)

Join Sally Chang, LiZhen Wang, and Tiff Lin (moderated by Xiao Rong Chang) for an illuminating astrology talk welcoming the Year of the Yang Wood Dragon on Monday, Come learn about the qi imprint of Wood Dragon and ways to stay rooted during a time of great transformation.

I have been a part of this writing community for 2 years and we are gathering resources to publish an anthology of our collected works. Across a wide span of ages, languages, styles, and stories, we represent the multitudes within the Asian Diaspora. This Anthology will weave together a tapestry of unique voices to claim our narrative in first person, and uplift people of the Asian Diaspora.

Contribute at the gofundme and tune into the talk! (scroll down on that page)

San Francisco-born poet and author Genny Lim has facilitated writing classes for the Asian Diaspora for decades, nurturing intergenerational communities to transmute collective wounds such as Japanese incarceration, immigration, warfare, patriarchy, racism, and anti-Asian violence; as well as celebrating ancestral cultural wisdom for healing and liberation. This fundraiser goes toward creating an Anthology that will showcase our manifold AAPI stories.

Xiao Rong Chang: Chinese-American Xiǎo Róng is a student of 大 地 母親 (dà dì mǔ qīn, the Great Earth Mother) and 觀音 菩薩 (Guān Yīn Pú Sà, Kwan Yin). She is passionate about supporting API/BIPOC healing through her work as a psychologist, writer, and facilitator. Currently, she is most excited about the Fierce Vulnerability Network (climate justice), a Hospicing Modernity study group, kado, the ocean, and her kitty Machito. vickiechangphd.com

LiZhen Wang: Counselor and facilitator who draws inspiration from the Daoist-Buddhist spiritual traditions of their ancestors. A practicing astrologer since 2014, they founded Astrology for Social Movement project to bring astrology into conversation with social justice strategy. They teach meditation for BIPOC communities and lives every day into their Dharma name, 本思, “Thought Originating from True Nature.” lizhen.space

Tiff Lin: A queer 1.5 generation Taiwanese-American, Asian Diaspora community organizer, and BaZi Chinese Astrology practitioner. A Dragon meets Goat Mycelium connector who loves to build cultures of authentic expression and belonging, creating space for catharsis and art as a way for ancestral healing. With 1:1 BaZi consultations, Tiff helps connect people’s gifts with their deepest calling and values. tiffanylin.co

Sally Chang: Martial artist, educator, acupuncturist, and founder of Evergreen Taiji Academy. Online and in-person, she integrates 30 years of Martial Arts, Daoist Cultivation, and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), for individual and collective healing. Delivering depth and wisdom, Sally Chang is known for her warm, focused presence. evergreentaiji.com

Start w/ Self-Paced Learning

Foundations of Movement, Level One

These SEVEN CLASSES teach you the Foundations of HOW TO MOVE in Qigong & Taiji. Sally Chang guides you with her 30 years of marital arts, orthopedic training and acupuncture experience to Improve Balance, Increase Strength, and Decompress Joints. Refine the way you move, and feel good in body and mind.

  • No previous training is needed, and even experienced students will find something new and refreshing.

  • This series will introduce you to basics that you can apply to any martial art including Taiji and Qigong, as well as benefiting your overall health and daily activities.

Evergreen Taiji Academy

Integrating Martial Arts

Daoist Internal Cultivation

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)

Awaken your intrinsic energy and generate deep resources. Build structural integrity while in moving meditation. Increase strength & balance while maintaining focus & calm.

Essential Sustainable Care, Personal Healing, and Wisdom Cultivation

Evergreen Taiji Academy brings depth and presence the ancient arts of Taiji and Qigong from a Daoist Perspective. For students that are beginners to seasoned practitioners.

Your non-tax deductible gift directly supports the

sustainability of our school. Thank you.

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  • "Wisdom and Compassion...

    are the two words I feel best describe Sally Chang. Her generous way of caring and teaching, so clearly connected to deep spiritual knowledge, is a gift to anyone who is the recipient. She shares her powerful insights and inner glow with a strong heart. I am happy to be in Sally’s orbit”

    —Jaune Evans

  • "Approachable, affable, kind, patient, wise, compassionate,

    super bright and smart, hip, and down to earth while in touch with heaven. An excellent listener, with a profound knowledge of Chinese medicine, practical application and, most of all, is uninterruptedly fully present.”

    —Tim K. Murphy

  • "Deeply impressed by Sally's Accomodating and Compassionate Teaching Style

    Her combined familiarity with the vernacular of Western scientific understanding, and the knowledge conveyed over millennia from the deep lineage she carries via Chinese culture. I have never seen anything like this —so comfortable in putting the two together, in such an articulate fashion — anywhere.”

    —Phillip Dibner

  • "The Benefits of Taiji, are increased awareness, both spacially and kinesthetically,

    improved balance, and flexibility, and a centering and grounding in the midst of a very busy schedule. Sally Chang has a profound knowledge of Taiji, and her gracious, kind, gentle, and professional manner are a pleasure.”

    —Ellen Rankin

  • "The workshop was a perfect introductory class, and made me feel my body for the first time and in a way that never occurred in Yoga—which I still love for other reasons

    Your organization and method of building on and repeating each movement was extraordinarily effective. I don’t know Qigong’s purpose, but I do know that it is having a real effect on my bike riding. My arms and wrists no longer hurt during a long ride and engaging my core and breath while riding generates much more power in each stroke. “

    —Desmond L. Brown

  • "...been practicing for 25+ years and the growth I'm experiencing is easy to define: Better Mood, Posture, Vitality,

    Sleep, impulse control pertinent to behaviors and thought patterns, and improved quality of relationships. Synthesis of her teachers, melded with her own deep study, personal cultivation, East Asian medical study, and teaching experience has led to one of the most high impact and accessible Qigong teachings I've experienced. The pacing and ability to convey the information cannot be beat. I look forward to spending more time with Sally as a teacher. “

    —Ben Zappin, L.Ac.

  • "...opening, accepting, and illuminating.”

    “I cannot adequately express my appreciation for your teaching — your understanding, knowledge of the body, and your general manner all come together in a way that is so opening, accepting, and illuminating.”

    —J.D.

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