Here in Chapel Hill we have been having cool nights and mornings coupled with warm days. It was 55°F the evening of May 31st. I can't remember the last time that happened. I'm appreciating and enjoying the mild temperatures, and grateful for a bit of sun amongst the clouds, and almost daily rain.

We're in a delightfully raucous time of blooming wildflowers, butterfly and cudweed, daisy fleabane, gardenia, hydrangea, rose sweetbriar, mimosa trees, passionflower, and many more of our flowering cousins. Mulberries are ripening. Box turtles are basking in the sun, and laying their eggs in just the right spot. Nesting birds are into their second broods. I love the vibrancy of this time of year. The living world is thrumming and pulsating with vitality and creative force.

How is the season where you are?

The exuberance of Summer’s flowering forth minds me of the observation that life is movement. When we observe the living world, we can see and feel that it is constantly in motion. Even the aspects of the world that we consider inanimate move. We simply might be too brief to observe their steps in the dance.


An invitation that is always on offer, as a living being on this beautiful Earth, is to open ourselves to the inherent movements of nature - to be breathed by day and night, the turn of the seasons, and yin and yang. We always have the opportunity to pause, drop into the watery tidal movements within our bodies, and feel our connection to all of life on this living planet.


The sensations within our bodies are a literal connection to our ancestors, and other than human kin. We are all embodied moving beings. While our senses may be tuned differently, we are all sensing, feeling, and acting within the myriad relations of the Earth’s biosphere. We have grown here together from a common ancestor. We are family.


Chinese medicine sees the human as the expression of the dynamic interplay between heaven (that which is above, sky, cosmos) and earth. The breathing of yin and yang, expansion and consolidation, give rise to all the other movements that we can observe and experience. Harmonizing ourselves with these movements, resonating with their rhythms, is the core of cultivation and self-care practices. Supporting the capacity to harmonize and resonate is at the root of what we do in the clinic - helping the body to remember how to move coherently internally, and in generative relationship with the external environment.

May your Summer days be filled with beauty, mystery, and friendship!

May you and your kin feel both rooted and free!

May we walk in gratitude with our Ancestors!

May all being and becoming receive nourishment!

Yin and yang ceaselessly dancing
Nature at play expressing its innate creativity
Let's harmonize with this medicine

It is my sincere hope that you have found something of use in these words.

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Wishing you and all your relations wellbeing and good medicine!

With gratitude,
Taran