At Original Qi, we are not a Buddhist place of worship, and we welcome every philosophy, every spirituality, every seeker. But I believe deeply that certain practices carry wisdom that belongs to everyone — and I am honored to share some of what has shaped me.
The rituals fell away, but they had already become part of how I move through the world, or at least how I wanted to move through life: With attention, with gratitude, with the sense that what is impermanent is not meaningless. If anything, it is more precious for being brief - we only get this one chance to be.
There are things that endless planning cannot give us, only putting our ideas into practice can. Theories about how people will move through a space, how a flow will feel, what will work — these stay theories until we test them against real life.