About Tai Phan
Author · Meditation Practitioner · Emotional Alchemist
Tai Phan writes books, builds apps, and tells stories — all exploring a single question: what happens when you stop running from your emotions and start learning from them?
The Practice
Emotional alchemy is the practice of transforming difficult emotions — fear, grief, anger, restlessness — into wisdom. Not by suppressing them. Not by analyzing them. By sitting with them long enough that they reveal what they came to teach.
This is the thread running through everything Tai creates: the books, the app, the daily stories, the oracle.
The Flying Lake
Tai's first book, The Flying Lake: The Music of Stillness, is a meditative fable about a lake that learns to fly — and what it discovers about the difference between movement and freedom. It reached #1 New Release in Zen Philosophy on Amazon.
The Aya App
The Aya app is an emotional alchemy companion for iOS — a space to check in with your emotions, practice daily rituals, and trace your inner patterns over time.
Daily Stories
Every day, Tai publishes a short story about Nika — a wanderer who walks through nature and learns from what he finds. The stories are written in the spirit of Zen koans: short, quiet, and intended to be sat with rather than consumed.