As a longtime teacher, I do not get much opportunity to actually be a student myself. So I was delighted to be invited to take a seat (well, take a stance) in Ken Cohen’s recent online zoom class on Yiquan. Cohen Shifu is all that one could hope to find in a teacher; everything from […]
Feb
28
2021
28
2021
Dec
9
2020
9
2020
Jul
19
2019
19
2019
Navigating Your Fate
We are thrilled to announce our newest publication, The Spirit of the Stars: Navigating your Fate with Pole Star Astrology, written by Plum’s resident astrologer, Narrye Caldwell, and published by Plum. There is much to say about Chinese Astrology, in general, and Pole Star, in particular—discover more about it in the longer description of the […]
Apr
15
2018
15
2018
Jan
17
2017
17
2017
Year of the Fire Rooster–January 28, 2017
Year after year, Narrye Caldwell’s annual Chinese Astrological analysis has been one of Plum’s most popular and requested topics. We are happy to once again offer it here. All Chinese wisdom traditions, including medicine, divination, astrology, and feng shui, are systems of pattern identification that guide us in adapting gracefully to change. A world in […]
Nov
24
2016
24
2016
Who’re You Calling Hurt?
We just refreshed our “Hurt” books section and, boy, do we have a great selection of sale-priced gems–there are about 40 of them! As we’ve said in the past, the title “hurt” is a little misleading, since 99% of these are indistinguishable from new copies of the same title. “Hurts,” in the book industry, are […]
Nov
7
2015
7
2015
Deep Practices
Learning Kung Fu can be a unique experience or, if you are not paying attention, it can be just another subject with the same tired educational template thrown over it. By a “unique experience” I do not mean the kind advertised on vacation posters. I mean an experience that shoots through your veins and hovers […]
Feb
22
2015
22
2015
A Daoist Roadmap for Nourishing Life
Wu Dang Daoist Priest Yun Xiang Tseng (Chen) Master Chen, comes from a 700 year old unbroken line of Wu Dang teachers. He is a 14th generation Zhang Sanfeng lineage holder and a 25th generation Longmen Daoist Priest. At a young age he was chosen to train on Wu Dang Mountain by Master Li Chengyu, […]
Oct
31
2014
31
2014
Face-to-face translations
What are “en face” editions?
Oct
22
2014
22
2014
Chi: Straight Up
This is a lively approach … to the topic of CHI.
Apr
9
2014
9
2014
Return of the Daoist Hand (redux and corrected)
Great news! We have been able to restock one of our most popular titles from last year, Daoist Abstruse Incantations and Hand Positions. Despite the exotic title, this book (and accompanying VCD) make an interesting cross-over for students of martial arts, qigong and Daoism (Taoism.) Just click on the image to see more about the […]
Aug
13
2013
13
2013
Oct
21
2012
21
2012
Yin and Yang, Water and Fire
Fire and Water are the Yin and Yang of the real world…
Aug
7
2010
7
2010
The Heron: my totem
from its long still legs the heron with awkward arching grace lifts my dream Peter Thelin is an all around teacher. Besides professing economics in the California college system, he taught Tai Chi at the Academy of Martial Arts, Santa Cruz. He has written a number of breakthrough instructional books on economics not […]
