The May Seminar with Chief Instructor Steve Rowe will be held on Sunday 20th May 2012 11am – 2pm at the Shi Kon Martial Arts Centre, Chatham Hill,  Chatham Kent ME5 7BB.  Costs are  £20 for Dojo members £30 for everyone else.  Casual sportswear to be worn and training is barefoot.  The Seminar is suitable for any adult, any grade and any martial art.

The seminar will cover how the ‘health’ Shi Kon Principles are subtly applied in Martial Arts meditation, neigong and qigong training and how they are ‘layered’ in the Shi Kon training system and highly effective for mindset, mental and physical health and psychic self defence.  

The Seminar is open to anyone from any art, style and any grade.

“Okay lets do the form” said Sifu after we had completed the neigong and qigong exercises…

We were about to practice the ‘Yang Chen Fu 108’ form, probably the most popular Taiji form in the world today. 108 because it’s a magic number to the Chinese, there are really about 335 moves but then – who’s counting!

Taiji has names for techniques that are sometimes self-explanatory, like ‘Lift Hands’ or ‘Brush Knee’ but also have names that explain how the technique is done, often with cultural stories. Techniques are also often grouped by a name like ‘Grasp Sparrows Tail’ which alludes to a challenge match that Yang Lu Chan was faced with, he called a sparrow to his hand with some seed and every time it went to take off from his hand, it needed to push very lightly downwards with its feet and Yang Lu Chan softened his palm with such sensitivity that it was unable to do it, making the challenger change his mind about fighting him!

I’m not going to give you collected information on the Chakras, no wiki information from the internet, no aura colours or gemstones – all that ‘academic’ information can be gathered via the internet and in my opinion can be untrustworthy.

What I will give you is my direct experience from 40 years of martial arts training and healing in a way that I hope that you can directly relate to and experience for yourselves. I’ll also map out the alchemy and healing of a human being through the practice of the Martial Arts and how it reflects through the Chakras.

I don’t ‘believe’ anything. I either know it because I’ve experienced it for myself or I don’t. This is how I, and in my experience, other people like yourselves, experience energy in your chakras, how to ‘read’ them in yourself and others and how to effect a level of healing through them…..