Peony

“My dragon was awakened — in wisps of fire.” 🐉

A client said this to me yesterday after her cloud ghost ritual. I’m still glowing.

This is my medicine. Cumulus clouds, a fire-breathing dragon, wisps of fire — feeling your power without burning everything down. To guide someone into that inner life and witness what they find there — I’m so grateful. 🌥️

EXPAND YOUR ARMS. WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR WILL FIND YOU.

This is an affirmation from the winter ritual — and it turned out to be true in the most unexpected way.

At 46, I let go. I decided to love me — focus on the depth and poetry of Chinese medicine, growing Peony, caring for my clients, being with my mom and dad and close friends, honoring my artistic practice and inner life. I was learning to be at home in myself.

And then Sean () arrived.

I couldn’t have imagined the how. A text. Then conversations. Then 4 years later Zanzibar — a complete surprise, so him. He knows how to keep a secret, how to make something grand and intimate at the same time. Quiet and humble with so much to give.

These bubbles were my invitation. I was practicing without knowing it.

This is what Cloud Ghost is: the dream alive. You don’t need to know how or when. Here, you listen to your inner life and trust that what you are looking for will find you.

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— Paige

Gentle reminder that you are stronger than you realize.

Repeat after me and say out loud: I AM A FIRE-BREATHING DRAGON. I BREATHE OUT WISPS OF FIRE.

At the end of my last year studying Chinese medicine, I had surgery and premiered a major dance production in the same year. I was depleted and didn’t realize what I had just accomplished. I felt like it meant that I was capable. My mentor said: it means that you are powerful. I paused and felt ease and a sense of confidence I hadn’t felt before. This was from being seen. And then I saw myself.

I wanted to create a practice for the middle of things — so you can approach what you’re dreaming into being with this feeling of power already in your body.

In Chinese medicine, the liver houses a spirit called the hún — translated here as Cloud Ghost. It gives force to your courage. It helps you envision what you want and take the first step. A symbol associated with the liver is a dragon.

This practice connects you with who you already are and have inside you — a fire-breathing dragon.

Hands on your belly, said three times:
I AM A FIRE-BREATHING DRAGON. I BREATHE OUT WISPS OF FIRE.

Then inhale. And on the exhale, open your mouth, stick out your tongue, and breathe out wisps of fire.

This is one of the four affirmations in Cloud Ghost — a spring ritual series informed by Chinese medicine and somatic practice.

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🌸 Paige

I started as a dancer. Movement was my first language — the body as primary expression.

At 35, I went back to school. Four years at Bastyr, learning to listen differently. Acupuncture. Chinese medicine. The body mapped in rivers and seasons.

At 40, I opened Peony — my acupuncture practice.

But I kept returning to the same question: what happens when these two ways of knowing meet? Listening to the pulse in the treatment room became the entry point. I brought it into the studio — taking someone’s pulse, then dancing their body’s story back to them. The body as poem. The body as oracle.

Now, at 49, I’ve found what I was looking for.
Ritual — the place where imagination, story, poetry, and healing meet.

This spring, I’m opening that space. Cloud Ghost is a seasonal ritual series informed by Chinese medicine and somatic practice. A place to feel, to imagine, to be held.

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— Paige