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Upcoming Workshops w/ Sally Chang
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A weekend of Qigong, herbal medicine, and nourishing food with experienced practitioners

Step away for a restorative weekend designed to nourish you from the inside out. A grounding Daoist Qigong practice will build your energy and leave you feeling more present in your body. Alongside it, you’ll explore herbal medicine through direct experience: tasting and taking herbs with focused awareness, making medicine by hand, and learning how plants can support digestive, immune, skin, and emotional health. Every meal is part of the journey, prepared from whole foods by an experienced herbal and dietary consultant to be as delicious as it is nourishing.

Health care providers and caregivers will leave with practical tools and hands-on skills to share with patients.

Anyone seeking self-care and healing will take home an embodied sense of well-being, along with simple practices to carry into daily life.

20 CEUs (Category 1) pending for California Licensed Acupuncturists via CEP #538

Ben Lomond Quaker Center, Santa Cruz, CA

Instructors: Sally Chang & Benjamin Zappin

Registration is Open at the discounted Founder Rate! (First 10 sign-ups)

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Daoist Qigong

The 15 Movements Qigong was created by Master Li Cheng-yu, 24th-generation beloved Daoist Priestess of Wudang Longmen Pai and Sally Chang’s Grandmaster. This elegant Qigong was distilled from her life of dedicated internal cultivation.

We’re swimming in Qi inside and outside, but often feel separated from the source; it’s that separation that causes fatigue and burnout. As a seasoned martial artist and health provider, Sally teaches in a warm, accessible way to help you activate Qigong in your daily life. Qigong from a Daoist perspective connects and calibrates the physical body and energy pathways, and illuminates the spirit.

For health care providers, Master Li’s 15 Movements Qigong is deeply restorative and energizing. You’ll also come away with practical, accessible Qigong movements to aid your patients’ recovery.

Experiential Herbal Medicine

Western herbs and East Asian formulas are some of our most reliable allies for meeting the everyday ups and downs of body and mind. In this hands-on session, Benjamin Zappin guides you through tasting and taking common herbs with focused awareness, so you can feel how each one moves through you. You’ll then connect that experience to the health concerns you see most often, including digestive, immune, dermatological, and psycho-emotional conditions. You’ll also roll up your sleeves for real medicine making, learning practical preparation skills you can use for your own self-care and pass on to your patients.

For practitioners, this is where theory becomes lived knowledge. When you’ve felt an herb’s effects firsthand and understood them through the lens of East Asian medicine, you bring deeper empathy and a surer hand to supporting patients through the full range of physical and emotional experience.

Food as Medicine

At this retreat, the meals are part of the curriculum. Benjamin has cooked at herbal retreats for more than 20 years, and he designs every menu to anchor the weekend’s teachings in your body. Expect whole-food meals built for flavor, easy digestion, and deep nourishment: herb-infused dishes, local meats, and hearty whole grains and legumes, with accommodations for a variety of diets. You’ll leave satisfied, and with a clear sense of how food can serve as everyday medicine.

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I am proud to announce that we have transitioned our name to Evergreen Internal Arts.

What started as an academy dedicated to Taiji has evolved into a vibrant space for internal cultivation, martial arts, Qigong, and movement-based healing. While the name is changing from Evergreen Taiji Academy, the heart of this community remains exactly the same. We will continue to explore Daoist Wisdom Arts, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), and embodied practice with the same kindness and depth you’ve come to expect. Thank you for being part of this journey and expansion!

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Fire Horse carries a fierce, catalytic energy—one that asks us to move and act from a heart infused with compassion

Join Sally Chang and Forest Lin for an astrological conversation exploring the nature of Horse energy and what this year invites from us individually and collectively.  Together, we’ll reflect on how Fire Horse energy can fuel heart-led action and how it can potentiate transformation. 

This event was a fundraiser in response to the injustice of /CE in Minnesota in January. Proceeds went to frontline organizers and humanitarian aid to local immigrant families they are protecting.

Sally Chang (she/they) is a martial artist, trainer, acupuncturist, and founder of Evergreen Internal Arts. She teaches online and in-person, integrating over 30 years of experience in Martial Arts, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), and Daoist Cultivation, distilling them into practices of individual and collective healing. Sally Chang delivers depth and wisdom into embodied practice, and is known for her warm, focused presence.

​Forest Lin(they/them) is a BaZi Chinese Astrology practitioner, ritual performance artist, bodyworker, and mycelial connector who supports people in moments of transition to clarify their role, gifts, and ancestral assignment. They are shaped and sustained by movements and communities rooted in healing and social change, including CRE (Asian Refugees United), QiKi Club, Asian Diaspora Jam, and Chinese Medicine & Magic.

Moderated by Katie Tao, Hosted by Teance Fine Teas.

Event poster for the Year of the Fire Horse celebration on February 6, from 6:00 to 8:00 PM at Teance Fine Teas, featuring astrology talk and fundraiser supporting frontline organizers fighting ICE in Minnesota. The poster includes photos of Sally Chang, a martial artist, educator, and acupuncturist, and Forest Lin, a Bazi practitioner, artist, and organizer. There is an image of a running horse and decorative red and gold lanterns.
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Foundations of Movement, Level One

BEST VALUE with SEVEN CLASSES to teach you the Foundations of How To Move in Qigong & Taiji. Sally Chang guides you with her 30 years of marital arts, orthopedic training and acupuncture experience to Improve Balance, Increase Strength, and Decompress Joints. Refine the way you move, and feel good in body and mind.

  • No previous training is needed, and even experienced students will find something new and refreshing.

  • This series will introduce you to basics that apply to any martial art, as well as daily activities to benefit your overall health.

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Evergreen Internal Arts brings depth and presence to the arts of Taiji and Qigong from a Daoist Perspective; benefiting beginners to seasoned practitioners.

  • "Deeply impressed by Sally's Accomodating and Compassionate Teaching Style

    Her combined familiarity with the vernacular of Western scientific understanding, and the knowledge conveyed over millennia from the deep lineage she carries via Chinese culture. I have never seen anything like this —so comfortable in putting the two together, in such an articulate fashion — anywhere.”

    —Phillip Dibner

  • "Approachable, affable, kind, patient, wise, compassionate,

    super bright and smart, hip, and down to earth while in touch with heaven. An excellent listener, with a profound knowledge of Chinese medicine, practical application and, most of all, is uninterruptedly fully present.”

    —Tim K. Murphy

  • "one of the most high impact and accessible Qigong teachings I've experienced."

    “Sally's synthesis of her teachers offerings melded with her own deep study, personal cultivation, East Asian medical study, and teaching experience has led to one of the most high impact and accessible Qigong teachings I've experienced.

    I've been practicing for 25+ years and the growth I'm experiencing is easy to define: Better mood, posture, vitality, sleep, impulse control pertinent to behaviors and thought patterns, and improved quality of relationships.

    I think the pacing and ability to convey the information cannot be beat. I look forward to spending more time with Sally Chang as a teacher.”

    —Ben Zappin, L.Ac.

  • "The Benefits of Taiji, are increased awareness, both spacially and kinesthetically,

    improved balance, and flexibility, and a centering and grounding in the midst of a very busy schedule. Sally Chang has a profound knowledge of Taiji, and her gracious, kind, gentle, and professional manner are a pleasure.”

    —Ellen Rankin

  • "Wisdom and Compassion...

    are the two words I feel best describe Sally Chang. Her generous way of caring and teaching, so clearly connected to deep spiritual knowledge, is a gift to anyone who is the recipient. She shares her powerful insights and inner glow with a strong heart. I am happy to be in Sally’s orbit”

    —Jaune Evans

  • "The workshop was a perfect introductory class, and made me feel my body for the first time and in a way that never occurred in Yoga—which I still love for other reasons

    Your organization and method of building on and repeating each movement was extraordinarily effective. I don’t know Qigong’s purpose, but I do know that it is having a real effect on my bike riding. My arms and wrists no longer hurt during a long ride and engaging my core and breath while riding generates much more power in each stroke. “

    —Desmond L. Brown, Esq.

  • "...opening, accepting, and illuminating.”

    “I cannot adequately express my appreciation for your teaching — your understanding, knowledge of the body, and your general manner all come together in a way that is so opening, accepting, and illuminating.”

    —J.D.

  • "Oh, THIS is what a regulated nervous system feels like!”

    “After our first 1:1 session, I thought, “Transformational!” Years of therapy and other treatments/practices have not had the same impact on my ability to regulate my mood, reduce knee pain and inflammation, stay present, and find a sense of ease in my body in everyday life…

    Sally deeply understands the mind/body connection and teaches how to allow the body to be a grounding place for the mind to return to, as well as how an internal and bodily felt sense of choice and space allows us to truly be authentic and generous people in the world.

    My primary care physician and I are both happy that my work with Sally has been an effective alternative to western/pharmaceutical intervention in my case. I leave every session feeling rejuvenated in my enthusiasm for the work we do together, and I truly feel she is worth every penny!” 

    —Danielle Worden