
Introduction
I once again find myself unexpectedly at something of a crossroads. Two years ago as I anticipated the summer holidays, life seemed pretty clear. I had just finished my 30th year of teaching at HKIS and had a very discrete and meaningful task: to complete a book summarizing my two takeaways of my teaching career, which I short-handedly call the yang of social conscience and the yin of inner awakening. In fact, I did submit (what I thought was) my final manuscript that summer, assuming I would then happily return in the fall to teaching Humanities I in Action and our Spiritual Explorations program, courses that manifest these two takeaways in the lives of my students every year.
However, on June 1st, 2020 I received a text message from a guy whose name I didn’t recognize. Sean from Kinesiology Asia contacted me about an introductory kinesiology course in the coming weeks. Being stuck in Hong Kong during that first covid summer, I was overjoyed to have some in-person teaching about a topic that I found intriguing. But my initial glee in no way prepared me for what I found, for from the very first hour, energy medicine was mind-blowing, challenging what I had come to understand as reality. Somehow through kinesiology the body was able to speak to me in ways that would have previously seemed unimaginable. I always say, “Kinesiology isn’t like magic, it is magic.” During that first 8-day course I wrote in my journal, “Life will never be the same.”
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