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The Physics of Flow: Using Movement to Release the Weight of Leadership w/ Ting Ting Guan

• Corissa Saint Laurent • Episode 54

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Ting Ting Guan’s journey began in poverty in China, wound through the high-stress fashion world of NYC, and crashed into a deep depression that only the ocean could heal. After reinventing herself as a successful yoga teacher, the universe pulled the rug out again, shutting every professional door in Los Angeles until she had no choice but to surrender to a new rhythm.

In this episode, Ting Ting reveals how the Guanjing Method was birthed not in a studio, but on a beach in Topanga, where she allowed her breath to animate her body and cleanse her trauma. She discusses the terrifying freedom of the void; that space where old identities die and new, channeled wisdom begins to flow.

Corissa and Ting Ting explore the concept of Embodied Intuition...moving beyond thinking your way through problems to dancing with them. Ting Ting shares her upcoming pilgrimage to the Wudang Mountains in China to study ancient martial arts and explains why trusting your yes (even when it involves adopting a homeless man's puppy instead of catching a flight) is the only way to live.

In this episode, we cover:

  • The Bag of Rocks: How to identify the extra weight you’re carrying in your life, whether it’s a job, a relationship, or an identity, and the courage to drop it.
  • The Universe’s No: Why every yoga opportunity in LA dried up for Ting Ting, forcing her into the pressure cooker that birthed her signature method.
  • Channeling Light: Demystifying the idea of being a channel (it’s not about hearing voices, but about allowing light to move through your body in spiraling, sacred shapes).
  • The Physics of Flow: How specific movements can release trauma stored in the fascia and create space for spirit to enter.
  • The Puppy Test: A real-life lesson in trusting your heart over your logic when Ting Ting missed a red-eye flight to adopt a dog from a stranger on a beach.

Notable Quotes:

  • "If you were to tell me 10 years ago that... I founded my own movement form... I would have been like, what are you talking about?" — Ting Ting Guan
  • "I realized, I'm doing these movements all the time... I'm imagining that my frustration is releasing... I realized, oh, these are meditative movements." — Ting Ting Guan
  • "I allow the light to use my body to move and dance... directing and projecting that light out in these spiraling circular shapes." — Ting Ting Guan

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Corissa Saint Laurent

Hey beautiful souls, welcome to the Everyday Mystic, where we demystify the mystical and transform your everyday life into one of greater meaning, higher purpose, and true joy. Today we're going deep with Ting Ting Guan, the founder and creator of Guanjing Method, a meditative movement practice at the intersection of yoga, jigong, and dance. Ting Ting channeled the method during a dark period in her life when she thought her future would continue as a yoga and meditation teacher, but all signs pointed to no. In this episode, you'll hear how following her intuition then and at an earlier dark time led her to exactly what her soul was calling her to. You'll learn what the movement did for her and therefore what it can also do for you. She continues to be called in new and ancient ways to invoke spirit and help people live better lives with joy, freedom, peace, and vitality leading the way. You'll feel how she embodies her practice to live in full flow with the current of life and not take it so seriously as she dances with the elements that come her way. In this episode with Ting Ting Guan on The Everyday Mystic. Hi, Ting Ting. It's so wonderful to see you. Thank you so much for coming on to The Everyday Mystic.

Ting Ting Guan

Oh, I'm so excited to be here. Thank you so much for having me.

Corissa Saint Laurent

Oh, my pleasure. Thanks for coming on. I'm so happy that our mutual friend Cal introduced us. I listened to you on his podcast and I was like, I love this woman. I love her energy. I loved at least a bit of the story that I heard of yours. And then I watched you because you have this movement method that you created, which we'll get into and we'll talk all about. Um, but I when I did a little research on you and watched you, I was like, oh, she's like fully embodying spirit. And those are the people that I love talking to because you know it's not just people who are practitioners. This is the everyday mystic. And the intention behind it is that we can hear from people of all walks of life. It could be an accountant who it's very mystical. It could be, you know, somebody who is not at all working in this space, but who carries spirit so beautifully within them. And you're obviously a bit of both, where you carry spirits so beautifully within you, but then you've also created and you work in this space too. So before we get into all the juiciness of your method and and the work, tell us a little bit about you. Where did your journey begin? And I'm by journey, I mean really journey into your true self and your and your spiritual nature.

Ting Ting Guan

Thank you so much. Yeah, it it's it's such a it is quite a journey, you know, and and I I don't think I was ever carrying spirit so deeply as I as I'm doing now. And um, it's a deepening into that. But I mean, I came from China. I grew up in poverty with my parents both being farmers and then coming to America and that search for right for for the for the life, right? That quote unquote beautiful golden, the golden um stairway to to wherever it is, that abundance. And from that place, it was like this feeling this of this unworthiness throughout my entire life. And so it was that journey of like, okay, well, where do I belong? Where do I fit in? Um, where am I accepted? Um, and I went from being in the office, being in fashion design, working a nine to five job, being very, very unhappy, disconnected, and finding my value from things and finding my value of like, oh, well, if I buy this bag or this purse or these shoes, then you know, then I'm gonna be more accepted. Then I'll have status. And it was a very obviously unfulfilling experience. Um, and it led me to a really deep depression, which carried me out of uh New York City. I was living in New York City, and afterwards it was like one day I decided to go on a bike ride. I decided to bike all the way to the beach, which is about a two and a half hour bike ride. Wow. Yeah. I was like, I'm on this journey, I don't know where I'm going, but I want to go to the ocean because I hadn't seen nature in so long. I mean, yes, there's Central Park, but it's still surrounded by buildings. You know, it's not really, you're not really immersed in it. And finally, when I got down to the beach, um, I started crying because I was so disconnected from nature. I was so disconnected from my own nature. And it was this profound experience of just watching the waves and watching the breeze blow through the trees and not having anything around where it was that moment of like, this isn't the right direction that I'm going in in my life. Like, I'm obviously not happy. I don't feel um, I'm very depressed. I don't feel connected to the people I'm around. And being in bars and being in all those places wasn't wasn't serving me. So I packed all my stuff. I quit my job that had, you know, 401k and all of these bonuses and all this guarantee, right? To literally put everything in a suitcase, travel in a car, and I was headed to San Francisco, but I ended up stopping in all these different places. I stopped in North Carolina, was my first stop. And that's where I was like the ocean, the waves. Um, there was a huge yoga community, and then I immersed into yoga, and that began my sort of path back to myself, and that's where it started. And it I just fell in love with it. It was just it was the cobblestone streets and the Spanish moss, and just like the the slowness of it and the sweetness of it. There was all it was like there was a huge humidity, and it felt like nice and like it just felt like nice and dewy and and everyone loved going to the ocean, um, and there was fresh seafood, and I was like, this is my jam right now.

Corissa Saint Laurent

Right. Feeding the soul, literally, figuratively, all of that. Oh, I I found that too, because I grew up in the northeast, and then we lived in the northwest for a long time. And and I also lived in LA area and southern California for many, many years. But I think having spent so much time in the north, coming to the southeast corner of the United States, I had a very similar experience of just the slowing down because obviously LA area, SoCal, there's a pace there too.

Ting Ting Guan

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's and and you know, and then after North Carolina, I end up moving to Telluride, Colorado, which is the complete opposite. But it was also like very soul nurturing, and I realized how much I loved just essentially, it doesn't matter where it is or what environment. I was like, I just love being in nature. And then I was in the mountains, I was high up in this high altitude, and just it everything was just pure snow and white, gorgeous, and and there was no, there was basically no humidity, but there was all this beautiful powder, like it's like, you know, and and um that journey led me to Portland, Oregon, um, where I decided then to take the leap of faith and go to Bali and start uh in my yoga teacher training. And they ended up wanting me to become a teacher, and then my yoga teacher training ended up being this whole meditation retreats, and I was ended, I end up leading meditation retreats as well as teacher trainings. And then my journey finally landed me in LA, which I am currently at right now.

Corissa Saint Laurent

Do you feel like Spirit was really guiding you to all these places? Because, like you said, you left New York not with the intention of staying in North Carolina, but obviously something spoke to you there, the nature spoke to you, it sounds like, and the the environment. But was there a voice within? Was there, you know, a do you believe that there was a larger magnetic or spiritual pull to each of these places?

Ting Ting Guan

For sure, definitely. Um, there was this for there was opportunity, of course, which when opportunity arises, you you you take it. Um, and then also I was really just following my happiness where I felt really happy. And after a while, being in North Carolina, I was starting to feel like this wasn't the place I wanted to really land. And that there was a the journey was it was meant to continue. Um, and so I always follow that sort of that longing. And when I left New York, it really started hitting me. Like I was getting waves where even just driving down the highway, I just started bawling into tears because I was realizing how much I wasn't following myself and wasn't trusting my intuition and was just shutting everything down. And so that leap of faith into the unknown was that first step of like, okay, I'm really going to trust my intuition now. And if you were to tell me 10 years ago that, hey, Ting Ting, you founded your own movement form and now it's being practiced internationally around the world, I would have been like, what are you talking about movement form? Just way out of left field. Um, but that's what was worth because I kept following those hits of like, hey, you know, like that spark of something that just magical is about to happen. And so I'm like, oh, I love this feeling. Like, I don't know what's gonna happen. I don't know how I'm gonna do it. I don't know if I even have enough money to do it, but I'm just gonna go for it.

Corissa Saint Laurent

Yeah. What was it that allowed you? I mean, was it the the hitting of a kind of quote unquote rock bottom that that got you moving? Or like, what do you really attribute to getting you moving in this way? Because it takes a lot of courage. And there's a lot of people who get these little taps and the whispers of like, you're unhappy, this kind of sucks. You know, what are you doing? But they don't move, they don't go anywhere, they don't do anything. So what do you attribute that to for yourself?

Ting Ting Guan

It's it's this feeling of wanting to escape frustration or wanting to escape, or having this feeling like I'm not free, like I'm I'm chained down by something that I don't want. Um, almost as if you were like carrying this like extra bag, and you're like, why do I have this bag with me? I don't want this bag. And so it's like whenever, whenever I start to feel like, oh, this is this extra weight, that's when I know that that's something has to shift. Especially with, you know, work and and I want everything in my life to feel like I really love it. Like, whether it's my job, whether it's a partner, whether it's my friends, whether it's a place I live live, I want to feel in all areas of my life I'm loving everything. And if I'm not loving everything, then that thing has to go. Or I have to I have to shift.

Corissa Saint Laurent

Have you run into something that you you haven't loved, but I guess the relationship with it changed? Maybe not like so much a jettisoning, but that you just had, you know, that you had this opportunity, this invitation to like shift the relationship with it.

Ting Ting Guan

I mean, definitely relationships for short in them of themselves, like partnerships and stuff, have shifted where they were, it was a beautiful lesson, right? It was a beautiful journey, and then I'm going here, right? And then this person's either staying right there or it's they're going this way. And it's like, and it's like, you know what? Our journey, it was beautiful and it's over, and I have to keep going. Um, and with with speaking of of work, you know, I was in at that point the yoga industry for so long, and I felt so my identity and ego was so attached to me being yoga teacher and meditation teacher, and in some ways I am still, that's still a part of me. But when I came to Los Angeles, this is when the Guanjing started um to download, and it was funny because the universe just literally shut all the doors and pathways for me continuing on the path of yoga. I've never had that happen to me ever. It was hilarious. Like, no, it like any any yoga teaching job, nope, any meditation job, no. Any clients coming in for yoga, no, and it never happened to me before, ever. So I was like, what is going on? I'm freaking out. My bank account's going, especially in Los Angeles, you know, just like an Apple cost five dollars. And I was like, what is going on? Like I I thought this is what I'm meant to do, and I was so attached to this is what I'm meant to do. And I started becoming incredibly depressed. Um, I started to freak out and try to look for other jobs, even waitressing jobs, hostessing jobs. And they were, it was just like, no, sorry, we're not picking you. And and I was like, oh my gosh, like I'm at this point right now where my ego is completely become being destroyed. I have nothing except mounting amounts of frustration and anxiety and pressure. And that got me into my second Great Depression and just sat there. And what it gifted me was all of this time to let this new movement unravel because without all of this pressure and tension and frustration and anxiety, that movement could have been birthed or couldn't have been birthed. So I end up moving right in this way to eventually allow all of that to release. And I didn't know what I was doing, but but I was unintentionally starting to create this movement form.

Corissa Saint Laurent

Wow. So that I think that's a beautiful thing to bring up. And um, as far as the the tension that builds, I always imagine it like, you know, what may have happened before the Big Bang, if the Big Bang is real, or you know, like that there's this tremendous amount of potential, right, stored, but it has to like condense, condense, condense into this pressure cooker situation before it can like explode into creation and into beauty and that release. But there seems to be this always this dance of and between those two polarities, really, right? That we're going between that the yin and yang and going between that those states. Uh, and accepting that I think is a really beautiful and important thing in life, that those times in your life aren't looked at as moments of failure or looked at as bad quote unquote bad times, right? They were like necessary times of pre-birth and and gestation and and all of this. And uh, I think when people don't get into a state of releasing what's meant to come out during, you know, or from those stages, I think that's when we can create a lot of disease and disharmony, right? In the body. So you let it out, sister. You were on, I think I remember from your podcast with Cal, you were on a beach and you just started to move in this way and just start to let it out. Share that with us, what that was like.

Ting Ting Guan

Yeah, yeah. You know, it's funny because I started, well, I first started practicing the movement just by myself in front of some oak trees, like where I was living, and I was blessed enough to be into Panga. And I didn't all avenues for yoga shut down. And even my desire to practice yoga, practice the yoga pastures or meditate just completely diminished, and I didn't know really what I wanted to do. And so I reconnected with my breath and was like, okay, just connect with your breath, like just be present to how the breath is moving through the body, and then I was allowing the breath to sort of like uh animate my body, and then I was letting the breath just do whatever it wanted to do with my body, and before I knew it, I was doing all of these movements, and afterwards I felt this sense of relief, and but I wasn't exactly sure what I was doing because I didn't record myself, I didn't see, and I went into this other space, and afterwards, the first time this happened, I felt so much like of a relief. I felt so much trust in the timing of things, I felt so much presence and uh I more deeply connected to my intuition and that that that loving voice rather than that like that mean mean voice, you know, that like you're not worthy, this is your crap, like no one wants you, and more of like trust, it's okay, everything's gonna come, just be patient. And and so I started, I was like, okay, well, I feel better now, so maybe I should try this again. So I that's when I started practicing by the ocean or at the park. And when I started practicing in public spaces, I had at this point, I was so used to teaching yoga and and doing things with my body in public that it was no big deal. Like I didn't care if people were watching me or not or what I was doing. And I closed my eyes and I went into this other space again, and especially with the waves and the sound of the birds and the sound of the ocean. It was just such an easy route to get into that place. And so by by the time I was finished, I opened my eyes, and all these people were standing around every single time. It was crazy. Literally, every time I went down the ocean or the park, every time I did this, I opened my eyes when I was done, and I had people looking at me and being like, Oh my gosh, what are you doing? That looks so amazing. I want to try this. Like, what is it called? Is it yoga? Is it qigong? Is it tai chi? And and and I was, and I just said, I have no idea what I'm doing. Um, but apparently the universe is speaking to me very loudly that I need to be sharing this. Um, and so it was sort of like a a working from um sort of backwards, and I started recording myself and be like, okay, well, what is it that I'm actually doing? Because I don't know. Um, and so when I started recording myself, I started realizing, oh, I'm doing these movements all the time and these movements. And when I'm doing this circular shape, I'm imagining that my frustration is releasing, and when I'm doing this, I'm imagining that I'm washing myself with the ocean water. And I realized, oh, these are meditative movements that I can just teach people in very simple steps. And so that's sort of how it started to be come into form.

Corissa Saint Laurent

I love how organic and just how channeled that was, right? I mean, like you said, it it downloaded into you and personally relieved you. So as you did it, what was happening? In you, um, you know, as far as because you were you said you were in a state of depression and kind of fear and loss. So what was going on in your own body as you were moving?

Ting Ting Guan

It was interesting when this first started coming through, it very much felt like spirit was entering into my body and cleansing all of the negative thought patterns and cleansing all of the trauma from my body. And I was allowing it to enter my body to do that. And so when this was happening and I was feeling it, it just felt like waves of relief and waves of kindness and just waves of expansive potential. Um, and after I finished, I it was embodied into me, right? You embody that because it you were letting it go through you. So then afterwards you have that feeling of just beautiful surrender into the trust of the universal flow, into the trust of the spirit, into the trust of your own spirit. And sort of that was, yeah, that was what I was feeling.

Corissa Saint Laurent

I love that you allowed it to all happen without any care, you know, that of what you were doing, what you might look like, and obviously you had a healthy relationship with your ego in that respect, then you could just be in that state in the first place. Uh, because I think a lot of people, you know, first and foremost, are uncomfortable just in general being looked at or or watched. So it's like you had already mastered that to some degree, right? With all of the yoga work and and then you were ripe and open, right? The universe picked you, they were like, okay, she's she's a channel for this.

Ting Ting Guan

You know, she's freight. So I was like, I don't even care. Like people can think I'm crazy. I don't care at this point.

Corissa Saint Laurent

Yeah. Yeah. So that's a great, I think it's a great message to everybody. It's like what what could look like the worst case scenario in your life or the worst state of being in your life? It could be the biggest, and usually is the biggest invitation to the biggest opening in your life, to what's really meant to come through for you and meant to be how you're living. The movement aspect, too, of allowing spirit to come through is another important thing because I think you know, we talk in these spaces a lot about spirit and about being soul-led and allowing the energy of all that is to enter your body. And you can read about it, you can talk about it, you can talk to others about it, you can think about it, but until you actually allow it to move through and and and enter you essentially, it doesn't become you, like you said. So movement is such an important and invaluable practice or aspect to spiritual life. Just sitting there, I mean, certainly you can sit there and allow energy to move through you too. You don't have to always be moving, but most of us, I think, need to and are helped and served, right? By actually moving and actually doing breathing and things that are opening up our physical channels. How would you describe that as far as what the movements do on a physical level to allow spirit energy to move in?

Ting Ting Guan

Well, you know, there's so many things I wanted to touch upon as you were talking about. I'll go, I'll go back to what's physically happening. But, you know, it's all about being able to integrate in into life. Like, of course, you know, there's there's this all these stories like, oh, you have to go to the mountaintop and be in complete solitude and meditate for 12 hours a day. Um, and then and then you will ascend and you will be enlightened, right? But for me, we are human and we and and else I I hear so many people being like, I'm just pure consciousness. Uh yes, and you are still in a human body right now. And so how do we have the most capability? How can we connect to our most full potential by accepting our human qualities as well as our higher consciousness? And how do we do that? By integrating the two of them and utilizing both polar opposites so that you can communicate and connect and and ascend, not only in your spiritual life, but also in the material life. It's so, so important. So when when I visualize and use sponjing and the movements, it's so that I can allow the spirit to guide me while life is in motion, because life is constantly in motion. I mean, people try to separate themselves, but you go to a sensory deprivation tank, and what are you stuck with? The noise of the water in your ear, and like, oh, you're a little like there's always going to be something that's going to annoy you, right? Or there's always going to be something else because you cannot separate. So if meditation is all about oneness, then connecting to our body, our breath, our emotions, our mind, our spirit as that oneness is for me the ultimate goal. Um, and so when we talk about what's happening with the movements, what's happening during the practice of Guanjing, Guanjing is allowing the body's unconscious mind in a lot of Eastern philosophy, that's what it's believed. And also now science is now realizing it, right? So if the body's the unconscious mind, then trauma is stored in different parts of the body. And I've witnessed even when I was teaching at the yoga teacher trainings, people have profound releases just because they stretched their thigh or just because they went into a back bend and opened their heart, and they just burst into tears because finally they're allowing themselves to physically open enough and not just physically open. Yes, you can stretch at the gym, right? But where's your mind? Where's your breath? So when you open your body and then you direct your mind and your awareness and send your breath into that space, then you can finally release whatever is held in that space. I mean, so many people have tension in their shoulders or their pelvis, and you know, they're constantly going like this, like physically trying to move it, but their mind is somewhere else. And so when we direct it and orchestrate it into one dance, it has to be a dance, a harmonization of all these elements together. It begins to release, and then what does that create? That creates space. It creates space in the body, it creates space in our mind, it creates space in our breath to invite spirit to come through, to invite intuition to speak to you. And so from that space, we're dancing with the elements, we're dancing with the movements, and then we're allowing ourselves to be part of the dance rather than just watching the dance.

Corissa Saint Laurent

That's the difference. Yeah, you're right. You're becoming it rather than even just doing it, right? What's shifted for you in your own intuition, maybe psychic senses and connection to the divine through the practice?

Ting Ting Guan

Trusting myself so much more, trusting, trusting my yeses and no's. And everyone has different the different constitutions, right? Some people need to wait, some people have uh, I think this is all kind of like a human design stuff. But for me, I'm a generator, which is not surprising. Okay, go and go and go. Yeah. Um, and my stake role is fixed, so it's that instantaneous, like you know, you know your yeses and no's. And for so long I've always been questioning it. Like, of course, it's like you know, the traumas of wanting to people please and wanting to be accepted. And and now I don't it's not that I don't care if I'm not accepted or what whatever it is, but I honor what I need and I honor what my body is telling me instead of pushing it down and shoving it away and separating it and being like, oh well, and and operating from that place of fear. I think that one of my favorite questions whenever I make big decisions in my life, or whenever um, you know, I'm in doubt of anything is am I making this decision based on a place of love and expansion or based on fear? Because if we're operating from fear, then the operation system is going to shut you off from your intuition. But when we're operating from love and expansion, we're operating from the place of our heart. And from our heart, all the answers to life will be answered. I mean, sometimes even the most ridiculous stuff. I'll give you a quick story because it's funny. I've been living in Hawaii for a really long time for a long time, and actually it was during COVID. So my partner and I, we decided just to go for three weeks, and three weeks ended up being months because I'm please let's stay longer, let's stay longer. And so finally, he goes, darling, we have to go back to LA. He's like, I'm gonna go back. You're gonna follow me, right? And I'm like, okay, yes. So I stay, I'm like, let me let me stay three more days. I want to like have a closing ceremony for being in Hawaii up here in Maui. And the last day, I'm supposed to take a red eye to go back to Los Angeles. I was totally accepting it. And I'm like, okay, I'm gonna have like this one last surf. And so I go to the ocean and I see this cute puppy, and I'm going, oh my god, this is the cutest puppy. I start playing with it and I'm starting to fall in love with this dog. And everyone's like, Who's does this dog belong to? Like, he doesn't, who's his owner, you know? And finally, this homeless man comes up. He's living in this man living out of this car, his car is trash. Oh, this is my dog. He's always so bad, he's always running away. And I'm thinking, well, I'd probably be running away from you too if I had if you were my owner. And and then all for some reason, all reason left my brain, and I just was fully so deeply connected to my heart. And I go, What if I take him off your hands for you? Thinking, like, all reason, I'm supposed to leave on a red eye, like I I can't be taking care of a dog where I travel so much. And he goes, Yeah, that'd be great. And literally hands me his leash, hands me his dog food, and just goes. And so I'm at the beach with this dog, and I'm like, Oh my god, what did you just put this all into? But it was just so hard. And I just we and I just looked at him and I was like, This is my little guardian. This is my this is my sweetheart. Like, and so that all of that logic, and now you know, he's sleeping behind me right now, and I'm so in love with him, and he's my little, like, he's my angel. I can't imagine life without him. And that's when you know you're operating because you just trust, you just trust it'll all work out, and it all worked out.

Corissa Saint Laurent

What a true, true following your heart story to end up with because dogs are, I mean, so much heart, right? They are all heart. Oh, I see him back there peeking up. He's behind right behind you. Yeah.

Ting Ting Guan

Oh, there he is, yeah. There he is. There he is. Oh, we see you. He's beautiful.

Corissa Saint Laurent

Oh, now he's gonna be. Oh, now we get to all experience him. Look at him. I mean, isn't he just angel? He is such a pain. He is an angel. Oh so you're gonna be traveling again soon-ish, right? To for another. Well, I know you travel a lot, so you kind of consider is LA like a home base, and then you go off from there, come back, go off and come back.

Ting Ting Guan

Yeah, yeah. I do really, and I really enjoyed the energy of Los Angeles. I mean, I'm into Pangas, so I'm in more of the nature, but I love I love the people here. Um, there's such a great community of just inspiring entrepreneurs who all are following their hearts, all are following the trust, um, their dream, and and really just committing and devoting themselves so fully in whatever they believe in. You know, I I just love it from the wide variety of people from everyone from people making specialty chocolates to people who are in Chinese medicine to people who are working on oils and tinctures and just following that they they their hearts that they know that they will succeed and be successful, and they are, they're thriving.

Corissa Saint Laurent

Yeah, it's good for that. I love that. I so love that about Los Angeles. My mom moved there when I was 14, and so I started and I had spent time there my childhood because you know, she has her side of the family was there, and and then when she moved, I spent a lot of time there and it became a second home, and then I went to college um out there, and it always felt so freeing to me. You know, I I felt a sense of not only possibility, but that of that creative energy of everything that you just described. There's so much of that there. And for people who just see LA in one way, you know, just see maybe the superficiality or just the Hollywood, you know, they they haven't really gotten the chance yet to experience it on an energetic level because it is so generative, it is just like popping there. And yeah, I I love it there too. And you're in a beautiful part, certainly in Topanga Canyon. It's gorgeous there. So you're you're there now, but I know you are leaving on a very big both from uh uh maybe distance in time, but also maybe from a symbolic sense to pretty big trip in a couple months. You want to talk a little bit about that?

Ting Ting Guan

Yes, yeah. Yes, I'm so excited. I'm prepared all of my extra time is devoted to preparing for this journey. Um, so I am headed to the Wudong Mountains in China, and I haven't been back to China since I left when I was five. So this is a really big moment in my life, and I'm headed there to study at the uh Wudong Temple space with the Grand Master. I'm going to be studying Wushu and Kung Fu Fan and Horsewhip and Qigong. And it's one of those um, it's one for me, I'm like go go all in or not at all. And so um it's going to be 12-hour days, uh, waking up sunrise with Qigong, and then studying the specific martial arts, and then you know, with breaks in between, um, and then more qigong during sunset. And I'm really, really excited to go back, uh, especially to such a beautiful part of China. I don't remember I've never been to those parts of China when I was younger. I only I was only in the cities. So to go back and to witness that that ancient wisdom and that ancient magic and the untouched landscapes, um, I'm very, very excited. So I've been practicing my Chinese again and going and I wake up every morning and I have my little tea ceremony. I have a little bit of age to wear, and I have this on this app that um allows you to practice uh Chinese. And so I've been practicing every morning while I'm pouring my tea. And then also, you know, studying it's it's so funny. So I have to tell you this other really interesting story. So four years ago, um I get guy TV and I'm looking at stuff and I'm putting like, oh, watch for later. I have a few things for watch for later, right? I don't look at it again. And then just a few weeks ago, I'm looking at my watch for later and I go, oh, this thing about chi. And so I click it, and it's about the school that I'm going to. Oh wow, that's amazing. The seed was planted way back then. Yeah, like my past self was preparing my future self to to go to go to this temple. It's literally about the exact school, about the mountain, about the you know, the the teachers. And I was like, this is insane. I can't believe that there was a documentary about this. And I didn't even realize it was a documentary about Wudan because it just said, you know, you know, something about qi energy. And I was like, wow, this is crazy right now. And then of course, you know, once the once your mind starts to focus on something, it starts showing up in different ways. And so then this other Chinese documentary documentary came up and it was about ancient Chinese megaliths. And essentially they found these underground caves that they just discovered in 1991 that equates to like finding, you know, the great pyramids uh in Egypt. And it's these massive caves that then hand they have no idea how these people carved it because they are it's so high with giant sculptures of dragons and Ascendant masters, and they and you know, they believe it's maybe not by something human because they don't understand how where the the stone came from. It's not the stone from the local area, and the just the size of it is is is a megalith. Um, and so I'm really excited after the the training. I'm headed down there to see these caves and and connect with that energy. Incredible.

Corissa Saint Laurent

So yeah, that's fine. Amazing. Oh, what a life shifting, you know, which obviously the seed was planted four years ago when you, or maybe even before then, when the the when you picked that documentary, but certainly you have shifted your path to this return. And amount, I mean, I can just like feel it in my body, the the kind of wisdom and and insight and things that you will experience. What's your hope for what you will experience? Is this something that's very personal for you? Or are you hoping that, like the Guanjing method, that you will incorporate it in some way for humanity?

Ting Ting Guan

For sure. I mean, I I hope that I come out out of there like a crouching tiger, hidden dragon. For sure. But also, you know, just to send to share the wisdom because not everyone can take off work for months at a time to travel all the way to China to get go through the whole process of getting the Chinese visa was quite a journey for me. And to devote all that time. And so my hope is to bring that wisdom back to the people who are drowning in their lives, the the people who you Know, have children, and maybe they don't have um a very uh sustaining job, and maybe they're dealing with a lot of health ailments, and and my hope is to allow ourselves and give everyone the opportunity to have that wellness and to take the time and move their bodies and not only for themselves and for the the fam their families, but also for the animals and for the planet and for Mother Earth, because we're at such a beautiful pinnacle point where more and more people are realizing that the way that we've been living is not sustainable, is not healthy. The foods that we're eating have been sprayed with poisons, and and the way that we're treating each other, the way that we're treating the animals is not from a place of love. And so now that more and more people are maybe not realizing the deep depth of why and who, but maybe they're realizing that they're just unhealthy and unhappy, then having more routes of of practices to bring them back to feeling their inner power, their inner their heart, their soul is one clutch step closer. And and hope I hope that I'm a part of that that step.

Corissa Saint Laurent

Yeah. No doubt, believe you will be, and going and and spending that time um with that intention uh will make it so. And I think it's so wonderful too for you to sort of act as a translator as well, you know, not a language so much, but an energetic translator of these ancient movements that you've obviously adapted. And I know you'll be learning very traditional things, but you know, maybe there will end up being some adaptations that come through you. Um, so it's like being a translator in that way for the people of now and the people of the West, you know, people who are, like you said, not necessarily connected to this energy in in such a close way as you might be. And to be able to bridge that um for people is is so beautiful. And I think a big part of those of us on the spiritual journey and living in this the mystical realms, um, you know, we're operating here, like we talked about earlier, right? In our bodies, we've got a body, we're we're we're solidly grounded in that, but we are also operating in these mystical realms and communicating there and getting and gaining information from there and shifting consciousness and timelines and all sorts of things through that, I guess, expansive way of being, so that we can bridge it, you know, I believe, to others who are ready to take the walk over the bridge. You know, it's like I always see myself as like, oh, I put the bridge out. It's kind of like putting out the lantern. And then whoever is attracted to that is the one who's ready for that step and the one who's ready for that walk. And the more of us that are doing that, because we're living in our own truth and we're living in that place where, like you have, you said, you know what, I am gonna let this all come through me. There, there can't be any other way. I have to let it come through me. And it's altered you and it's projected you forward, and you're also you've become a channel, you know, for others. Do you see yourself in that way that you are a channel?

Ting Ting Guan

You know, it's so funny. I have I have um a friend who who she I have a lot of friends who are channels, and um, you know, she we I we had a session and I and we were talking about this, and she goes, you know, you are a channel, you're a medium. And and I I laugh because I always think, well, I can't like for me, I don't hear voices or I don't see like in I don't see into the future or anything, but I feel energy. I feel I can tell without even being close to someone if they're in pain or if they're if they are heartbroken, or I I just feel that emotions from people very deeply. And she said, you know, but but and I agree with her, when I channel, I'm not channeling a particular person. Some people are like channeling saints or channeling an angel or or you know, maybe an alien. Um, for me, I feel that it's just light. I feel like there's light coming through, and I'm just allowing the light to use my body to move and dance. And I feel when I'm moving, then I'm directing and projecting that light out in these spiraling circular shapes, which that's what I'm teaching people to connect to their own their own light and to connect to that sense of cohesion with the natural waveform of the universal flow. Because when we are in distrust, when we're frustrated, when we're angry, when we're stuck in those more negative behavior patterns, right, we're in disharmony and we're dysregulated. And even when you think about sacred geometry in terms of like this fell out flower life, or when the structure of water, when water and when we send love to that water, right, and it becomes this beautiful snowflake when it's frozen, that's similar to our to the cells of our own body. When we connect with spiraling circular shapes and that universal flow, we become more structured to be in harmony with life rather than in disharmony with life. So, this is what I'm teaching people. And this is actually what my new course coming out is about. It's called The Sacred Geometry of Qi, that's available to all uh of the members uh in the online community. Um, and I would love to give your list gift your listeners with a free class. I'll send you a link with for that. Beautiful. But uh, but yeah, that's what it's all about is connecting to that light.

Corissa Saint Laurent

Yeah, and I I love that we're talking about this because you know the the intention of this podcast is uh my hope is that more people see themselves as channels and as mediums and uh as as gifted with the the voice of spirit and understand themselves as soul and connected to this oneness. And that has all of its own preconceived notions, just like you were saying, like, oh, I'm not a channel because I don't hear, I'm not, you know, speaking in tongues with some, you know, some you know, dead relative coming through me. There can be within this space a lot of preconceived notions of what something is because we're not all not brought up this way. You know, most of us are kept away from this kind of woo-woo stuff. And the woo-woo to me is who we really are, is what we really are, and reminding people like we all are channeling energy, we are all bringing in, or at least have the capability to bring this uh in. And even for those who would, I would say, don't feel like they have the capability, presuming you're not completely shut down in your physical body. We are bringing in information. Everyone's had some type of intuitive hit. I mean, you you know, even if it's just like, oh yeah, I thought of, you know, this person, and then, you know, I got an email from them, or whatever, whatever little minor intuitive hit. So I like reminding people of this, that we're all we all have not only this capability, but this is who we really are. We are really all capable and meant to be connected to this vast realm of information and energy and uh this collective wisdom that we can then move through us.

Ting Ting Guan

Yeah, and intuition's, you know, it's a it's a muscle. Just like any other muscle in our body, we the more we work and use that muscle, then we get to see the benefits of it. So, you know, just I mean, I it's interesting, like how we how we um raise children, you know, everyone's like, oh, you know, let them play with the iPad or whatever. And and for me, it's like if I ever have children, my main goal would be to build their intuition and to just say, okay, I trust your no's, I trust your yeses, you know, instead of saying, oh, don't do that. Oh, that's dangerous, right? And that child isn't getting even the chance to begin to develop that relationship with their own intuition, even from a very young age. We're always trying to, we always think that we know best, we're always trying to control other people. And and so in a in a in a beautiful world, I see that um we're all lovingly uh cultivating each other's intuition because we all we all have the ability, just like you said, we do have all have the ability to be psychic and channels. It's it's not like it's a special quality, it's more that some people have developed it way more than other people.

Corissa Saint Laurent

Yes. And then why have it? Let's talk about that for um a moment. You know, why why want it? Why have it? I mean, I have my own reasons for that. What for you is what kind of quality of life and benefits do you being more connected to your intuition and this inner knowing and this flow? What does it do for you? And you know, from a practical sense, what does it provide for you?

Ting Ting Guan

I mean, from a very practical sense, it's just allowing me to be more happy. Um, it's uh it's allowing me to find more freedom, it's allowing me to become more expansive and trust in my own potential for what I'm contributing in life and to others. Uh, you know, if I wasn't following my intuition, I mean, I see the timeline of me still being in New York City and still trying to climb up the corporate ladder and being burnt out and being super depressed and maybe having some sort of eating disorder or something like that, you know? Um, right, whereas when we trust our intuition, it's always going to guide us. It's always going to guide us. And my friend said something really powerful. He said, you know, what decisions would you make if you knew that your prosperity was inevitable? If your success was inevitable, like what choices would you make? Would you still be making the same choices? And that's similar to the question, are you choosing from love or fear? And the more that we choose from love, the more that we choose from the fact that our success and our prosperity will be inevitable, then we are sending that message out to the universe that we trust our intuition. And when the and that the universe responds and goes, okay, well, I'll give you more of that, right? Whereas if we weren't, then the universe will be, well, I'll give you more of this for you, because apparently you're asking for it. Um, and of course we have to have difficult situations and challenges and stuff that that tests ourselves that and those those difficulties are necessary to put us into that timeline of where we need to go, you know, and so sometimes, yes, like we want to make decisions from a place of love, but maybe something really crazy happens or devastating happens or, you know, tragedy, heartbreak, whatever it is. But always knowing that it's for the greater good um will help you get past it, you know, instead of being stuck and a prisoner to that trauma.

Corissa Saint Laurent

And what would be your best piece of advice for when you are feeling stuck, when you're in that place of lowest of low and just feeling stuck there? What would you advise someone to do?

Ting Ting Guan

I would say just dance with it. I would say, yeah, that's what I did. Just dance with it, just move it. It's okay. You're not going to be stuck forever, but you need to move the energy instead of feeling like you're in a stuck place. You can still, you still have the freedom. If you're listening to this podcast, you're not stuck. You know, like you have some sort of gateway of of freedom and safety in your body. You're not in the you're not in a war right now, right? You are here and you're able to move your body and you're in a safe space to move your body. So move the body, move, move with your breath. Like allow the energy to move instead of becoming more and more stuck in the body. Um, and that's the first step. And that's what you're teaches you is how to, if you don't have a direction of like, I don't really know what to do, you know, check out that free class. It has all it has so many amazing movements. It teaches you how to breathe, it teaches you how to do the flow and it gives you um a sequence. And so uh that's what I would say.

Corissa Saint Laurent

Beautiful place to start for anybody. And I'm so grateful for you to share that free class with the listeners. I'll put all your links in the show notes so that people can access that and and find out more about you and the method and follow your journey because you're gonna go and you're gonna come back with so much more after your return from China. And we already talked about this of you coming back onto the podcast after you've gone on that journey, so that you can share all the juicy downloads with us from you know, straight from the mountain. Uh, so we'll look forward to that. Thank you so much, Ting Ting, for sharing time with us and being here.

Ting Ting Guan

Yes, thank you. It was wonderful speaking, and uh it's an honor to be here.

Corissa Saint Laurent

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