One of the recent guests of my show emailed me when he heard that I would interview Ken Cohen and joked that he'd have to snort coke when listening to that episode... well, it turned out to be one of the most interesting episodes of my show ever. Ken, whom I had met only once during my recent trip to Boulder, Colorado, is a very knowledgeable and thorough Qigong expert. His book The Way of Qigong is certainly one of the bestsellers on the subject of the energy arts, as is his home study course. If I ever met an American who is a bona-fide Qigong master, he is definitely the one.
The interview went quite smoothly until some callers started trying to call in with questions and appeared to have a hard time connecting to the station. After taking a couple of interesting questions from two listeners inquiring about the best ways to engage in daily Qigong practices and the seeming lack of mentioning the energy of love in the traditional Qigong literature, another Qigong master called in... Mark Johnson, who was a guest on my show just a month ago, graciously contributed his energy to the discussion. Although I got an impression that the two masters had never met face to face, they had a most lively and respectful exchange of ideas. Of course, you will have to listen to the recording of this episode if you want to know the details. I just wanted to say here that it is very exciting for me to be able to facilitate such a wonderful connection between different Qigong masters. I hope that more of the guests of my show will continue calling in on mondays to add more dimensions to our future episodes.
Please make sure to listen to the upcoming interviews with Shoshanna Katzman on Monday, March 23, Jim MacReatchie on March 30, and with Michael Winn on April 6, 2009. All three of them served as Presidents of the National Qigong Association at various times. Mickael actually served twice in that capacity and Jim was the Founding President of the NQA,which was formed mainly due to his arduous efforts. Shoshanna is still very actively involved in the life of the Association as the chair of its Advisory Counsil. All of them are published authors, and I will look into introucing their books to our Qigong book club at some point soon.
Please feel free to email me with any questions or comments at lama@qidao.org. Speak to you soon.
