🔔 Important 🔔 - Only comments on THIS THREAD will count toward the giveaway — make sure to post your check-ins right here each day. Check-ins posted elsewhere won’t be included. - The LAST DAY to enter the challenge is January 25th. The New Year, New Qi 10-Day challenge has officially started today! This is your daily check-in thread for the challenge — welcome and let’s flow into the new year together! 👇 Here’s how to check in each day 👇 ✅ Daily Check-In Instructions ✅ 1. Pick any practice video from the community. 2. State which day of the challenge you’re on (ex: Day 1, Day 3, Day 7). 3. How you felt before and after practice — just a short sentence for each. 4. Photo or video — snap a quick pic of your screen, your space, or yourself practicing. ✨Sample Check-In: - Day: 1 - Practice: Yin Yang Qigong - Before: Feeling tight and foggy - After: Calm, clear, and more open - (Photo or video attached) Complete all 10 days and you’ll be entered into a lucky draw — we’re choosing 3 winners. 🏆 1st Prize Includes 🏆 - $100 Gift Card - Premium Handmade Tai Chi Stick - Custom Rooted Alchemy Hoodie - 30-Minute Private Practice Session with Sonny Let’s do this!

This is a very basic question that I'm sure must've been answered before somewhere here, but: what does one do to shore up emerging practice routines if one becomes ill? I don't mean anything serious, but especially colds and the myriad other viruses that circulate in, for example, the very damp, wet, and cool weather one gets nowadays in winter in southern England (climate change: in my lifetime I've witnessed it shift from cold, snow, and ice to warm and wet). When one is starting out on a practice path, this can mess things up. Here, BTW, is Cuckmere Meander, a local beauty spot near where I live between the White Cliffs that mark the edge of South Downs National Park meandering to the sea. I can't wait to practice there in the open as Spring dries out the mud!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bF_a_w7Dozo This really gives me hope for the future, I joined the Greens six months ago and they really do believe in nature like we do. I'm hoping to maybe start a community tai chi group in the future and get a group of us practicing together in the park. Hopefully we can insightfully network our way out of environmental disaster, we depend on nature for everything, we should definitely care for her 🙏💚☯️🌏🌎🌍❤️‍🩹💚

Truman also enjoys the Tai Chi stick in the morning. So much so that he borrowed mine for awhile. Luckily he knows that the stick is only for the paws😄. If you have a little friend who likes to join you for practice, feel free to have them say hello if they aren't shy. 🐶🐈🦜🐍🦎🐢🐁

It is not about TaiChi and Qigong, but in the same line and also so important for the whole world and to feed the positive energy towards peace. Did you hear about the walk of peace in US? A group of 18 - 19 monks, often accompanied by their rescue dog Aloka, who has become known as the “Peace Dog.” They are connected to the Huong Dao Vipassana Bhavana Temple in Fort Worth, Texas.They live a traditional Buddhist life, guided by meditation, compassion, and mindfulness. They are walking from Fort Worth, Texas to Washington, D.C. Through the southeastern part of the US. It is a journey of about 2,300 miles (around 3,700 kilometers). They started on October 26, 2025, and plan to arrive in Washington, D.C. around mid-February 2026. 'It is a message of peace, loving-kindness, and compassion, shown simply by their presence on the road. Step by step.' It’s the choice to make peace visible without arguing for it. No slogans to debate, no demand to agree. Just bodies moving through the landscapes, day after day, letting presence do the talking. They are now just north of South Carolina, moving through central to northern North Carolina (about 86–87 days into the journey). Every day, thousands of people come to greet them. It is deeply moving to see how many people carry them and this intention in their hearts ☸️ 🙏 https://walkforpeace.short.gy/live-map dhammacetiya.com https://www.facebook.com/walkforpeaceusa/