This one's a wander through the Tao with Anthony — 20 years into practicing internal martial arts, qigong, and Taoist alchemy.

We start with his new course, Returning to Source — a 13-week sampler platter of what it might've been like to attend an actual Taoist mystery school: yin and yang qigong, naygong (internal alchemy breathwork, basically the Taoist answer to pranayama), philosophy, herbalism, acupressure, the whole gamut. Anthony explains why yin and yang aren't opposites so much as a lens, why his own teacher once told him this practice wouldn't make him a god but might make him more human (which is the whole point of being here), and what it's actually like when deep breathwork takes you to what he calls "the realm of the little people."

From there we get into addiction and attachment, ecstatic dance and contact improv as a kind of nonverbal church, billionaires as Lovecraftian entities who really just need an invite to the waffle party, and what Anthony learned about community, happiness, and the "lying flat" movement while living in China.

And as always, we close it out with a message from Little Ball.

Anthony doesn't have a website (yet), but he's easy enough to find if you're curious — he teaches ongoing Qigong classes Monday through Friday and offers private sessions at community-based prices. You can also find him on local community Signal threads.