Pono Arts

23/10/2026

yes 👍🏽💯

Over 200 million people practice Tai Chi, Qigong, or Kung Fu worldwide. Here is what they know about energy that most of us never learned.

In parks at sunrise. In studios. In community centers. In living rooms.

What do they know that most of us were never taught?

That energy is not just something you have.

It's something you can cultivate.

That breath can change how you feel in minutes.

That slow movement can build strength, balance, and calm at the same time.

That the body has its own intelligence, if you learn to listen.

Bill Douglas, founder of World Tai Chi and Qigong Day, has helped bring that knowledge to 100+ nations.

He's 1 of 28 masters, doctors, and scholars featured in Quantum Qi.

Together they share what 5,000 years of Taoist practice has to teach a busy modern world.

You don't have to become a master.

You just have to begin.

If you've been curious, World Tai Chi and Qigong Day, held the last Saturday of April each year, is a great way to try it alongside others.

Do you practice Tai Chi, Qigong, or Kung Fu? Tell us which one below.

Type QI below to get notified when Quantum Qi is available to host.

16/10/2026

do you see the monkey?! 😆

16/10/2026

sharing some art from last winter! created non-digital within a creative group called the Oracle Card Deck here in Mexiko where i currently live

15/10/2026

some art from beginning of the year with the Oracle Card Deck group in Mazunte Mexico

03/09/2026

a good one:

📍 Some children do not get a childhood in the way people imagine childhood should be.

They do not get to simply play, feel safe, be carefree, make mistakes, and trust that someone else is carrying the emotional weight of the home.

Instead, they adapt.

They become alert too early.
They learn to study tone.
To notice silence.
To read footsteps.
To scan faces.
To sense when something is “off” before anything is even said.

This is how hypervigilance begins.

It is not just overthinking.
It is not just being sensitive.
It is a nervous system learning that staying aware feels safer than relaxing.

So while other children were daydreaming, laughing, and feeling held, some children were learning how to survive environments that asked too much from them too soon.

That kind of childhood leaves a mark.

It can show up later as:
• feeling tired in ways you cannot explain
• struggling to rest fully
• reacting strongly to small changes
• feeling on edge when someone’s tone shifts
• always preparing for something to go wrong

Not because you are weak.
Not because you are dramatic.
But because your body remembers what it had to do to get through it.

This is why healing is not only emotional.

It is physical too.

It is the slow work of teaching your nervous system that it no longer has to live like danger is always nearby.

If this resonates with you, I Didn’t Choose to Be Born goes deeper into these childhood wounds, nervous system patterns, and the journey of healing what survival had to build inside you.

Link in bio. 🤍

02/09/2026

interesting https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1BvHPcEj1k/?mibextid=wwXIfr

16/02/2026

another Dolphin Dance Ecstatic Sunday in Mazunte Mexico

20/12/2025

Dolphin Dance with Pono at Ecstatic Sunday Mexico 🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🥰🐬

20/12/2025

20/12/2025