Julia Chi

Julia Chi

 

       

My name is Julia Chi…
I have been running all of my life – it feels I was born to run.
In the running step I experienced freedom and my true expression.
I came to see that I needed to ‘get out of the way of myself’ and let my energy flow through the running step; allow it to express itself in the dance and the motion of running.

I have lived from a belief that all that is required is that I know myself, and that I am true to myself, and seek to become the master of my body and my mind… That from this place I allow my true nature to shine and reflect in my creative endeavours and within my relationships.
An ongoing journey…!

I knew from when I was young that all I needed to do was to ‘run free’. To let the running take me where it wanted to. To stay in the step. To be in the moment and so to experience running as a meditation on the move.

I ran for England and GB for some years. My first international was in 1979, a three mile cross country race; and I continued to run at international level until 1993. Two of my best results were first place in the Dublin City Marathon in 1985 and 7th place woman, 3rd British woman in the 1986 London Marathon in a time of 2.36.31, which gained me selection for the Commonwealth Games.

Investigating Our Alter Ego Can Set Us Free…

The night was alive with music and people and shops still selling… Restaurants full of groups laughing and talking; tapas selling in the street and cocktail bars … The delightful energy of human beings being human, doing what we spend a lot of time doing… eating drinking talking, sharing, time food, fun, laughter… For awhile…

On the Stage of Life…

We journeyed along the South coast of Spain, and ‘turned right’ for a little way up the West Coast, 450 kilometres we travelled… Shimmering heat, the cicadas calling out, playing their familiar music in the shimmer of hot hot weather… Lunch in Marbella, bright expansive ‘something’s about to happen’ energy, in the setting of holiday…

Be Like the Sun, the Moon, the Flowers…

Hace mucho calor! Perhaps a little too calor… But then being in a body lends itself to a constant movement between various discomforts, especially noticeable where weather is concerned…! Too hot, too cold, too dry, too wet, too much… Too much weather. It is a subject of much conversation, particularly in lands with obviously changing…

On Top of the World…

On top of the world, space peace… Maggie and I sat on the top of Monte Pecho this morning as the sun rose and this is how she described being here, living in the Alpujarras… Maggie has lived here for fifteen years, she and her husband Jack wanted a change, and discovered Bubion and have…

When We Just Do It…

Just do it… The Nike advice is so very sound… Waking up early to climb up a steep mountain doesn’t always seem appealing, I realised today…  ? My waking feeling was that it was all rather hard, the terrain, the thin air, needing to do it early before the blazing sun appeared over the mountain…….