When I was a young boy, sometimes while asleep I clearly knew I was dreaming. I would even inform other people appearing in those dreams that it wasn’t going to last. On occasion, I would solemnly share that when I woke up they’d likely be gone. In one particularly memorable dream, as I felt myself…

By way of background, for the past five years I’ve started each day with a 15 minute series of standing exercises (called ba duan), staring out a window looking across the valley onto the Oquirrh Mountain range seen above. It began as a way to enhance a decades long daily practice of tai chi but…