Yellow Court Conversations

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Welcome to Yellow Court Conversations This is a long-form conversation style podcast about all-things Daoism. Our conversations and interviews will discuss ancient and modern Daoist wisdom teachings, universal understandings, seasonal longevity and healing traditions, spiritual practices, relationship guidance and profound insights on walking an authentic and meaningful path - however, you choose to your walk it. Michael Smith has been a formal student and practitioner of Daoism for 40 years. Dr. Smith has practiced and taught Traditional Chinese Medicine for over 30 years. Michael is passionate about sharing skills like Daoist meditation and Qi Gong with people suffering from chronic illness, trauma, and addiction. Please rate and review!

  1. 09/11/2025 ·  VIDEO

    Obstacles to Inner Cultivation - one - Audience Consciousness - Part One - video

    The most important obstacle for modern practitioners of Embodied Spiritual Cultivation is called Audience Consciousness. Here is part 1 of 4 parts. Enjoy! Feel free to connect if you have any questions. Course link: https://somadaoqigong.com/nei-gong-year-one-opening-your.../ #spirituality #innerpeace #meditation #qigong #neigong

    9 min

  2. 09/11/2025

    Obstacles to Inner Cultivation - one - Audience Consciousness - Part One - audio

    The most important obstacle for modern practitioners of Embodied Spiritual Cultivation is called Audience Consciousness. Here is part 1 of 4 parts. Enjoy! Feel free to connect if you have any questions. Course link: https://somadaoqigong.com/nei-gong-year-one-opening-your.../ #spirituality #innerpeace #meditation #qigong #neigong

    9 min

  3. 07/20/2025

    Self-Cultivation and Self-Transcendence

    It seems like a good idea to begin this conversation by asking, did human beings ever have inner peace? Every spiritual tradition and culture that I've ever had a chance to encounter deeply, all have an origin story. If it’s the garden of Eden - or at the beach near the ocean during the last ice age, or coming from some primordial world beneath this world. https://somadaoqigong.com/nei-gong-year-one-opening-your-meridians-and-dan-tian/ What is it that is lost with this descriptive imagination of our loss of innocence? A recurring context in many ancient and mostly indigenous traditions, is a distinction between cultivating resources or power or medicine for your people, including yourself, your family, your extended family, and those who are in need, And/or cultivating resources power or medicine in a way that is over or against others. Imagine a life of collaboration, reciprocity, service, belonging, recognition, respect and opportunities to both learn and eventually lead. There is an innocence there because all that is asked is to show up, be present. Be generous, be generative. Be relational. Or, to simply commit your existence, and everything you are for your people. Accepting others in every way you would wish to be accepted as yourself.

    32 min

  4. 07/03/2025

    Why Does the Yi Jin Jing (muscle Tendon Change) take 3 years to complete - 45 min Audio

    The Shaolin Muscle Tendon change, or Yi Jin Jing 易筋經 is one of the most well known and sought after systems of Qi Gong in the world.  If you have not heard of the Muscle Tendon Change, and its sister practice Bone Marrow Washing, they are elements of one of the most profound and effective approaches to embodied awareness, physical fitness, Spiritual cultivation, and meditation traditions on Earth. They are famous for improving health, vitality, Martial Arts capacity, enhancing Qi sensitivity and awareness, boosting Neuroplasticity, and increasing both longevity and quality of life in your elder years.  For Qi Gong practitioners and teachers, this system is one of the last remaining intact traditions that still combines early Indigenous Daoist Animistic practices and the Shaolin Monastery’s development and precision over the last 1500 years. #shaolinkungfu, #shaolin #qigong #longevity    https://somadaoqigong.com/shaolin-strength-and-longevity-qi-gong-yi-jin-jing/

    45 min

  5. 07/03/2025 ·  VIDEO

    Why Does the Yi Jin Jing (Muscle Tendon Change) take 3 years to complete - 45 min Video

    The Shaolin Muscle Tendon change, or Yi Jin Jing 易筋經 is one of the most well known and sought after systems of Qi Gong in the world.  If you have not heard of the Muscle Tendon Change, and its sister practice Bone Marrow Washing, they are elements of one of the most profound and effective approaches to embodied awareness, physical fitness, Spiritual cultivation, and meditation traditions on Earth. They are famous for improving health, vitality, Martial Arts capacity, enhancing Qi sensitivity and awareness, boosting Neuroplasticity, and increasing both longevity and quality of life in your elder years.  For Qi Gong practitioners and teachers, this system is one of the last remaining intact traditions that still combines early Indigenous Daoist Animistic practices and the Shaolin Monastery’s development and precision over the last 1500 years. #shaolinkungfu, #shaolin #qigong #longevity    https://somadaoqigong.com/shaolin-strength-and-longevity-qi-gong-yi-jin-jing/

    46 min

  6. 02/07/2025

    Ep - 19 - Bi Gu - Metabolic and Spiritual Fasting - Part Two

    Bi Gu - Metabolic and Spiritual Fasting - Part Two   Bi Gu - Metabolic and Spiritual Fasting - Part One

    1h 42m

  7. 02/07/2025

    EP - 19 - Bi Gu - Metabolic and Spiritual Fasting - Part One

    Bi Gu - Metabolic and Spiritual Fasting - Part One   Bi Gu - Metabolic and Spiritual Fasting - Part Two

    1h 25m

  8. 01/09/2025 ·  VIDEO

    Ep - 18: Exploring Pain and Vulnerability with Qing Zhi Bing

    This one gets personal!!!   Today Ravi shares some of his personal experiences and challenges as a human being, while Michael frames the conversation in the context of TCM Psychology (Qing Zhi Bing).   If you are interested in this training (anyone can learn this), here is the link to the course outline: Embodied Psychotherapy, Spiritual Recapitulation, and Traditional Chinese Medicine

    1h 34m
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Welcome to Yellow Court Conversations This is a long-form conversation style podcast about all-things Daoism. Our conversations and interviews will discuss ancient and modern Daoist wisdom teachings, universal understandings, seasonal longevity and healing traditions, spiritual practices, relationship guidance and profound insights on walking an authentic and meaningful path - however, you choose to your walk it. Michael Smith has been a formal student and practitioner of Daoism for 40 years. Dr. Smith has practiced and taught Traditional Chinese Medicine for over 30 years. Michael is passionate about sharing skills like Daoist meditation and Qi Gong with people suffering from chronic illness, trauma, and addiction. Please rate and review!

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  • Creator
    primordialdaopresentdao
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2025
  • Episodes
    49
  • Rating
    Clean
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