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A Man of Root: Reflections by Patrick on Stuart’s Birthday about stuart alve olson patrick gross Sep 22, 2025

When I think about Stuart and everything we went through with him in his illness and death, what keeps coming up for me is the image of the lotus and the mud.

All our lives, we’re trained to look at the lotus in people—their greatness, their strength, their shining moments. We want to see them at t...

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Across the Distance – A Tribute to Stuart Olson Sep 22, 2025

The world is always changing—and so it is that a person from another country, some 5,470 miles away between Hamburg and Phoenix, can find a teacher who touches him deeply.

In 1993, through a friend, I was introduced to Chen Family Taijiquan and began training with Jan Silberstorff in Hamburg. Along...

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A Tribute to Stuart Olson by Austin Seraphin about stuart alve olson Sep 22, 2025

My Taoism teacher, Stuart Olson, recently passed away. The Sanctuary of Tao wrote a tribute to him. I wanted to write one as well.

I first encountered Stuart during the 2019 Qigong Global Summit, an online event that no longer exists. Stuart gave a talk about Taoism. In it, he described it as an

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The Future of the Sanctuary of Tao sanctuary of tao Sep 16, 2025

Dear friends,

Since Stuart’s passing, many of you have been wondering: What will happen to the Sanctuary of Tao?

The good news is that this is exactly why the Sanctuary of Tao was created: to preserve the teachings Stuart sought to transmit so they could live on beyond him. None of us expected tha...

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The Life and Times of Master Stuart Alve Olson about stuart alve olson Sep 01, 2025

Stuart Alve Olson—beloved Taoist teacher, translator, author, and lifelong practitioner—passed peacefully from cancer on August 14, 2025, in Phoenix, Arizona, surrounded by the love and care of his closest students and caretakers, Patrick Gross and Suzanne Nosko. Even through all he endured, his att...

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Reflections from Patrick patrick gross Sep 01, 2025

I met Stuart in 1992—more than thirty years ago. Like a lot of people, I wanted to learn Tai Chi. I had started studying with Jim Lodal, a student of Master Liang’s and Stuart’s in Duluth, MN.

Jim told me that Stuart, newly married to Lian Hua and with his son Lee, on the way, had just moved back t...

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About Stuart’s Passing: Longevity, Humanity, and the Tao about stuart alve olson Aug 26, 2025

When someone like Stuart, who devoted his life to the Taoist arts of vitality, passes in his 75th year, it can raise questions. How could a teacher of health and longevity die “relatively young”?

Stuart himself would have wanted us to look at this openly, without denial. For him, life as it is was ...

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Nature (Xing) and Life (Ming) a few words from stuart alve olson Jul 17, 2023

By Stuart Alve Olson

In Taoist Internal Alchemy texts, Xing (性) and Ming (命) are very important concepts. These two terms have varying definitions within Taoist texts, causing some confusion for those studying Internal Alchemy. In the simplest definition, Xing is a reference to our Nature, our mind...

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Eight Brocades and the Longevity Teachings of Li Qingyun li qingyun qigong Mar 20, 2023

Taoists believe that we suffer the effects of old age because we don’t incorporate the laws of nature. If we want to feel good, we need to nourish the nature within us.

When it comes to working with the body, Taoism is all about going back—re-storing, re-generating, re-vitalizing. Taoism teaches us...

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Intercalary Moon: Wood Rabbit astrology Mar 20, 2023

March 22–April 19th, 2023

By Suzanne Nosko

As this new moon on March 22nd will be an intercalary month (or moon), the Yin Water Rabbit influence will be with us longer. This happens approximately every three years and is done in order to keep up the lunar year with the solar year.

Since the solar...

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Great Strength: I Ching Hexagram for Mar-April 2023 i ching monthly hexagram Mar 20, 2023

Please see the Book of Sun and Moon by Stuart Alve Olson for more details of the advice and correlations given in this piece for the present month (moon).

Great Strength, #34, Da Zhuang

This hexagram holds influence over the period of the Yin Wood Rabbit Moon (including the intercalary moon period...

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