Aging Well with Dave & Peggy

Aging Well with Dave & Peggy

The Learning Will Never Be Done

Sep 09, 2026
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I changed the Qigong class again this morning.

Nothing dramatic. Nobody was injured. Peggy hasn’t revoked my teaching privileges. 😂

There were just a few stretches we’d been doing standing that had never felt quite right to me. I’d been thinking about them for a while.

So I changed them.

We started seated instead. Got quiet. Got grounded. Opened the body a little before we stood up and moved into the Qigong flow.

It felt better.

While I was explaining what I was doing, I said something I didn’t think much about at the time:

“The evolution of this class is always a work in progress. I test things and see how they work, and then make adjustments. It’ll never be done.”

That’s pretty much how Peggy and I have approached RiversZen from the beginning. We learn something. We try it. We pay attention. We keep the pieces that seem to help. We change the things that don’t.

And occasionally we look at something we’ve been doing for years and think, Why the heck are we still doing it that way?

I don’t thi…

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