Conversations with educators, healers, and artists who are cultivating warriorship, courageous peacemaking, and collective healing. Hosted by Sally Chang.

Dharma Conversation among good friends and spiritual siblings Sally Chang and Laura Shingetsu O'Loughlin @ Brooklyn Zen Center, October 2021. Discipline and repetition including gentleness as part of re-programming our default behaviors, somatic knowing and resonance. Appropriation vs. Appreciation. Conflict and Violence happening, how do we deal with it and still be active peacemakers?

Recorded in July 2020, during deep global scale quarantine. Being on "retreat" when its not of our choosing? Limitations, being with ourselves, isolation, loneliness, safety, & reactivity during a volatile time. Martial Arts is Relational. Moving within limitations, active centering, cultivating spiritual friendship, being a good practice partner in the laboratory of practice.

Dharma Conversation at Millerton Zendo in August 2023. Topics of Asian American and queer identities while in spiritual communities, How Sally Chang found her way to martial arts, Daoism, and TCM, Internal Cultivation practice and practicality. Kaishin Victory Matsui is the director of Ancestral Heart Temple, the monastery of Brooklyn Zen Center, located in Millerton, NY.

What is the intersection of being a peacemaker and a martial artist? Uneven systemic structures still exist today. Internal Cultivation practice develops the fortitude and true resilience for us to stay connected internally and externally especially during challenging times