Month: December 2025

  a Zen Approach to the New Year   The transition into a new year is often treated as a monumental threshold, but Zen perspective invites us to view it as the 無門関, Mumonkan – Gateless Gate. While we often feel the need to reinvent ourselves, the reality is that [Read More]

a Comprehensive Overview: Traditional Chinese Medicine, known in Mandarin as 傳統中醫, Chuántǒng Zhōngyī (TCM), offers a profound and holistic framework for understanding and treating trauma. It is an approach that integrates classical philosophical principles with clinical methods to address the whole person. In the TCM view, trauma is not merely [Read More]

Tomoe Gozen stands as one of the most powerful and enduring figures in Japanese history—a woman whose name defies expectations, challenges stereotypes, and embodies the martial spirit of the samurai age. Revered as a fearless warrior, skilled archer, expert swordswoman, and commanding battlefield presence, Tomoe Gozen is remembered not merely [Read More]

Early Life and Background William Kwai-sun Chow was born on July 3, 1914, in Honolulu, on the island of Oʻahu (then Territory of Hawaii). Wikipedia+2USAdojo.com+2 He was the third of sixteen children and the first son of his parents — his father was known as Sun Chow-Hoon (or Ah Hoon-Chow), [Read More]

How discipline, movement, community, and joy open new pathways for growth Children who live with neurodivergence—ADHD, autism spectrum, sensory processing challenges, anxiety, dyslexia, dyspraxia, and many others—often navigate a world that feels like it was not designed for them. Traditional learning environments may move too fast or too unpredictably. Social [Read More]

Throughout the long arc of Chinese martial arts history, certain names rise from the dust of time and settle into legend—names invoked with reverence, pride, and awe by practitioners across the world. Among the most celebrated of these heroes stands a constellation of warriors known collectively as The Ten Tigers [Read More]