Once “discharging” myself from the “Chi” Master’s “clinic,” out of pure politeness, I invited 云儿（Master’s apprentice No.1）to have a coffee at Starbucks.

Cloud is a petite and strong woman with a beaming smile and elegance demeanor. While sipping coffee, and biting her sandwich, we small-talked about unimportant daily things. However, once she knew about my South American journey of visiting a worldly-renowned Faith Healer, she gradually opened up to me about her bleak and bitter childhood. Growing up as the oldest sister in a Yun Nan’s rural village, while Nanjing Kids were eating KFC, and drinking soda during their childhood, she was herding pigs, doing heavy housework, and taking care of her younger siblings. Her father abused her frequently with an explosive temper, venomous words and worst of all, violence.

Being a Child labor at 7, her health has been severely damaged since that year, and she suffered from Asthma, chronic cold, twisted spine ( while chasing a pig, she accidently slipped, fell and sat on a sharp rock, and hence twisted her base spine) and many other health conditions.

“I was not even able to tolerate myself to the little wind from a portable electric fan, and that’s how sick, and desperate I was.”  “ My brain was constantly foggy, and working on a small project at office would exhaust me.”

This was how Cloud opened up herself to embark on her YOGA odyssey 12 years before. She wanted to recover, and live as a sweet, uncompliant, and dream-chasing spiritual warrior. Without much money under her name, she used DVDs and online video clips( the same way that I learnt my English) to master her Yoga and become a well-known Yogi in her area.

However, as she had another bite of the café’s classic beef cheese croissant, “ Yoga didn’t save me fully, and I was still feeling cold even during the summer’s hottest days.” After 12 years of ups and downs of her body condition, she was conscious and wise enough to conclude that “ Everything is CHI, and no Chi, no life.” This even became more clear to her when her violent and thunder-tempered father perished from the malicious liver cancer. “ The shortage of breath took his life.” Cloud confirmed unhesitantly.

While witnessing her father being tortured at his doctors’ mercy, she suddenly had an epiphany – “ why couldn’t I collect Chi on my own, and recharge myself, like a cellphone every day? ”This deep question plus her luck finally led her to a Chi Master living in Yixing, and hence opened her door to Chi and Meridian yoga.

Today, in my eyes, not only is she a master yogi who can complete the most challenging and complicated yoga poses, but she is also capable of connecting herself with the mother earth and universe. In her words, “ the mother nature is always unconditionally loving us, and accessing her with respect can bless me with the eternally abundant Chi.”

Out of 33 years of searching, I have found my yogiJ What a blessing!

未完待续：）